AOC's One Tweet Takedown Of Nancy Mace's Transgender Bathroom Issue Is Going Viral

Lawmaker Nancy Mace of South Carolina has made keeping trans people out of women's bathrooms her entire personality.

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According to Newsweek, Mace has literally tweeted about bathrooms 326 times in the past 72 hours.

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Tweets include this:

Twitter: @NancyMace

This:

Twitter: @NancyMace

And this:

Twitter: @NancyMace

This whole thing began after Sarah McBride of Delaware was elected as the first openly transgender member of Congress.

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Well, it appears Nancy Mace's constant bathroom-tweeting worked. Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, backed her up on this, saying, "All single-sex facilities in the Capitol and House Office Buildings - such as restrooms, changing rooms, and locker rooms — are reserved for individuals of that biological sex."

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So, someone asked AOC how she felt about it, and that video is going viral:

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"What Nancy Mace and what Speaker Johnson are doing are endangering all women and girls. Because if you ask them what is your plan on how to enforce this, they won't come up with an answer," she said. "What this inevitably results in is women and girls who are primed with assault because people are gonna want to check their private parts suspecting who is trans, who is cis, who is doing what."

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"The idea that Nancy Mace wants little girls and women to drop trow in front of who? An investigator, who would that be? Because she wants to suspect and point fingers at who she thinks is trans. It's disgusting. It is disgusting."

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"And frankly, all it does is allow these Republicans to go around and bully any woman who isn't wearing a skirt because they think she might not look woman enough. People have a right to express themselves, to dress how they want, and to be who they are. And if a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect her genitals to use a bathroom. It's disgusting."

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"They're doing this so Nancy Mace can make a buck, and send a text, and fundraise off an email. They're not doing this to protect people. They're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kinds, and everybody should reject it. It's gross."

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She then tweeted a response that is going viral.

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That one is racking up numbers.

Social media icons with numbers: 5.9K comments, 8K shares, and 48K likes
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And how did Nancy Mace respond? Well, she said this:

Spectrum News/Twitter: @RepNancyMace

Ultimately, I'm sure this isn't the end of this battle, considering Congress hasn't even been sworn in yet... Oh, brother.

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