Effectively, right here’s a option to inform a Republican to STFU about their BS DEI agenda.
Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser appeared earlier than the Home Oversight Committee on Thursday and effortlessly shut down a transphobic line of questioning from Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.).
Though the main focus of the listening to was speculated to be about crime and security within the nation’s Capitol, Mace used her 5 minutes to attempt to spark a tradition struggle by pushing a invoice entitled “No DEI in D.C. Act,” which appeared to recommend that range, fairness and inclusion had been in charge for the town’s crime.
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Mace then launched right into a sequence of laughably unhinged questions — which included Mace asking Bowser to reply “sure or no” to the extremely nuanced subject of whether or not or not “D.C. authorities is racist.”
After failing to get sound bites from an more and more flabbergasted Bowser, Mace determined to push her anti-trans agenda by taking problem with the inclusive time period “birthing folks” — somewhat than “girls” — being utilized in a piece of the D.C. code.
“One factor we seen the D.C. code struggles to outline is the time period ‘girl,’” Mace started. “So, Mayor Bowser, what’s a lady?”
“I’m a lady. Are you a lady?” Bowser shot again, inflicting a number of folks within the listening to to burst out laughing.
“OK,” Bowser stated flatly. “I’m a lady. You’re one.”
“Okay, good,” Mace stated seemingly flustered.
Many X customers — very like Bowser — had a tough time wrapping their heads round no matter bigoted level Mace was attempting to make.
This on no account is the primary time the South Carolina lawmaker has made her anti-trans stance obnoxiously crystal clear. Final yr, she tried to ban the primary overtly trans congressperson from utilizing the ladies’s bogs on the Capitol. Mace’s proposed toilet ban, nonetheless, was notably excluded from the Home guidelines bundle in January.
