Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) speaks during the third day of the Republican National Convention.
Americans are horrified that Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) spent her time targeting two universities in her state for offering more than two gender options on certain student forms rather than fighting to improve the lives of her constituents.
“Just learned this morning from Libs of TikTok – not from your state legislature – that Clemson University in South Carolina has 15 genders on one of their applications,” Mace said in a video posted to social media on Friday.
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“This isn’t gonna happen on my watch. Not now, not ever,” she said, positioning herself as a warrior for justice.
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She explained that a few weeks earlier, she also discovered that the University of South Carolina had 13 gender options on a form and that within 48 hours of her “exposing” this fact, the school changed it to two.
Mace said she both left a voicemail and texted Clemson president James Clements “demanding an answer” because “if it were up me… they would not get a dime from the state of South Carolina.”
“I’m encouraging him to fix this and fix it fast because we want to make sure South Carolina is following science and not some radical, woke, leftist, lunatic ideology. Not on my watch,” she added.
Mace also listed some of the gender options on the form in question, which included nonbinary, genderqueer, gender nonconforming, intersex, questioning, cis woman, cis man, trans woman, and trans man.
She was baffled by one in particular. “The last one: two-spirit. What the hell is a two-spirit gender? There are only two genders,” she declared, adding her opinion that “cis is a slur” and that a cis woman is actually just a “normal female.”
In Native American communities, “two-spirit” is used to describe people who contain two internal identities–a masculine spirit and a feminine spirit. The term can be used to describe someone’s sexual orientation and/or gender identity. Two-Spirit people were once considered healers and shamans, but colonization led to their marginalization. Many communities, however, are working to revive their sacred roles.
Mace posted a video of herself leaving a voicemail for Clements and recently added to the post: “JUST IN: we heard from the President of Clemson. This form with 15 genders has been taken down.”
Many social media users did not think Mace spending her time harassing schools over dropdown menus was anything to celebrate. Many slammed her for acting in the videos like she was saving the country and for failing to use her role in a productive way to actually help her constituents.
Wow thank you, this was keeping me up at night
Pack it up boys, America is saved. Nancy mace just saved our society; the economic inequality, mental health crisis, & fentanyl crisis were small potatoes compared to the gender options on a college form
imagine being a sitting member of Congress, with real power to address housing, healthcare, or education, and choosing instead to spend your time calling a university to complain about dropdown menus.
this isn’t leadership. it’s performative outrage to score cheap political…
Such and accomplished you should be so proud. Too bad you can’t fix real problems. I know I know gender is the top issue. All the other stuff really doesn’t matter. Go back to the Waffle House…. pic.twitter.com/gbppTAS5hc
