Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) at a Wednesday listening to known as out Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) over her use of a transgender slur.
In the course of the Home Oversight listening to on Wednesday, Connolly, the panel’s prime Democrat made an inquiry with Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) after remarks by Mace.
“The gentlelady has used a phrase that is considered a slur in the LGBTQ community and the trans community,” Connolly mentioned.
It appeared Mace was making an attempt to interject and the Virginia Democrat requested to “finish without interruption.”
Mace interrupted, repeating the transgender slur.
“I don’t really care. You want penises in women’s bathrooms and I’m not gonna have it,” she continued. “No, thank you. It’s disgusting.”
Connolly mentioned to him, “a slur is a slur.”
“And here in the committee, a level of decorum requires us to try consciously to avoid slurs. You just heard the gentlelady actually actively, robustly repeat it,” he mentioned.
Connolly requested Comer if Mace might be endorsed on decorum guidelines.
“We can debate policy discussion without offending human beings who are fellow citizens,” Connolly mentioned. “And so, I would ask as a parliamentary inquiry whether the use of that phrase is not, in fact, a violation of the decorum roles.”
Comer mentioned he wasn’t updated on LGBTQ terminology and that he would look into the matter.
During the last a number of months, Mace has labored to ban transgender girls from utilizing the ladies’s restroom on Capitol grounds and has launched measures to have the identical guidelines in all federal buildings.
The Hill has reached out to Comer’s workplace for remark.
