September 18 2025, 08:15 
Out journalist Don Lemon called “proud transphobe” Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) “disrespectful” for using anti-trans slurs in front of the Capitol building.
Mace was talking to a group of reporters about Tyler Robinson, the primary suspect in the shooting death of MAGA activist Charlie Kirk.
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She said that Robinson was “radicalized” because he supports “the transgender community.”
Lemon asked her for “the facts” to back up her claim, and she said “the death threats I get” prove that trans people are violent.
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“Most of the death threats I’m getting right now are from people who support the transgender community or who are transgender themselves,” she said. She has made opposition to transgender equality pretty much the only policy issue that she is known for.
Lemon pointed out that the evidence shows that right-wing extremists commit more political violence than the left-wing ones, and Mace claimed that there were “transgender” engravings on Robinson’s bullets – a rumor that turned out not to be true last week – and then Mace started dropping slurs.
“… was a transgender, was a tr***y,” Mace said. “Come on, let’s be honest about this.” Robinson is not transgender, although investigators are saying that his roommate was transitioning.
“That’s disrespectful,” Lemon responded.
“I really don’t care,” Mace said. “Because there are a lot of tr***ies out there that want me dead because I’m a rape victim who wants privacy in the bathroom.”
“The tr***ies can eff off,” she said, apparently unwilling to say the word “f**k” while she was willing to say transphobic slurs.
“How would you like it if someone called you a name, if they called you a b-word or any of that, how would you feel?” Lemon asked.
“These people are calling me a c**t and all of these awful names online,” she said, not naming anyone who said that or if any of them were, like her, sitting members of Congress. “Are you kidding me? Come on.”
“They are the most egregious, most vile, violent people on earth,” she said, repeating baseless right-wing claims. “They are mentally ill and should be in a straitjacket with a hard-steel lock on it.”
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