Bisexual comedian Margaret Cho has called Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) “a dumb b**ch,” in a recent Facebook video post, for using transphobia to advance her political career. Cho also accused Mace of killing trans people with her anti-trans rhetoric.

“Nancy Mace, you stupid b**ch,” Cho says at the outset of her video. “The name ‘Mace’ is appropriate because every time you talk, it’s like pepper spray in my face.”

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“You are the worst,” Cho continued. “Every opportunity you get, you use to hurt trans people. Every time you open your mouth, trans people die. You’re killing trans people for no reason other than to further your political career.”

“Like, you say you do this because you’re a survivor,” Cho said, referencing Mace’s claims of surviving sexual assault and domestic abuse. “You’re ‘a survivor’??! F**k you. Like, who isn’t at this point? But you are the worst predator of all.”

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“I don’t even believe that you think any of the things that you say,” Cho added. “You’re just doing it to further your career, and that is the worst kind of thing.”

Cho concluded her video by saying, “I hope you get a lot of flakey skin in your nose so it looks like you always have boogers. No matter what you do… and it burns, you dumb b**ch.”

On her Facebook post, Cho included five trans flag emojis and the following hashtags: #resist #pride #transisbeautiful #trans #lgbtq

Last June, Mace described herself as a “proud transphobe,” continuing her crusade to be the most anti-trans member of Congress.

Mace has previously referred to herself as a “Full TERF” (an acronym for “trans-exclusionary radical feminist”) and has a long and proud history of demonizing trans people. She has, in many ways, become the public face of the Republicans’ crusade to eradicate trans people from all aspects of civic life.

When Mace first ran for a congressional seat in 2020, she ran an ad falsely accusing her opponent of passing a law “requiring transgender equality in the military.” During Mace’s 2022 reelection campaign, she falsely accused her opponent, a pediatrician, of conducting “sex changes” on “children as young as four years old.”

She also lobbed transphobic slurs at a student, shouted these slurs during a speech and a House committee meeting, publicly bullied a trans influencer, was booed when discussing a trans activist’s genitals at a public talk, targeted two universities in her state for offering more than two gender options on certain student forms, referred to Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE) as “it” and “a man” in a TV news appearance, and called trans people “mentally ill” (even though trans identity isn’t considered a mental illness by any major medical or psychological association).

Mace also persuaded House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to introduce a rule banning all trans people from using Capitol restrooms that match their gender identity. She has started selling anti-trans t-shirts and said that it’s “offensive” that McBride thinks she’s “equal” to other congresswomen. She also voted against reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act because it would give some protections to trans inmates.

Cho is a bisexual Korean American who was one of the first commercially successful Asian American female comedians. She gained notoriety through the 1994 ABC sitcom All American Girl, which was loosely based on her young experiences in San Francisco. Her 2021 memoir and one-woman show, I’m the One That I Want, discussed racism and misogyny in the entertainment industry that fueled her body image issues and drug addictions.

She has performed in 43 films, 56 TV shows, eight solo comedy specials, and is a steadfast LGBTQ+ activist who has fundraised for the Matthew Shepard Foundation, Human Rights Campaign, and PFLAG.

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