The tense exchange over civil rights and transgender people came during a committee meeting on Capitol Hill.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Dallas, offers an amendment as the House Oversight and Accountability Committee holds an organizational meeting for the 118th Congress, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023. A tense exchange between U.S. Reps. Jasmine Crockett, D-Dallas, and Nancy Mace, R-South Carolina, led the Republican to offer to “take it outside” during a committee meeting Tuesday.
Crockett said Democrats are ready to work on behalf of the American people, while her colleagues across the aisle seemed focused on targeting the most vulnerable people in the U.S. Mace said she believes in civil rights and civil liberties for all Americans but argued Democrats don’t respect women because the minority party doesn’t want to give women their privacy rights when it comes to transgender people.
“As a rape survivor, I shouldn’t have to explain to you why women have rights,” Mace said. “You’re making women feel unsafe in this country, and you’re making the opportunity for women and girls to be raped, to be sexually abused in this country even greater than they’ve ever, ever been. So don’t come over here with your attitude and talk to me about rights when you’re trying to take my rights as a woman, a rape survivor, away.
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