In an explosive showdown during a House DOGE Committee hearing on transgender athletes in women’s sports, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) delivered a searing takedown of the left’s incoherent and damaging gender ideology. The heated exchange, which has since gone viral, featured Mace demanding simple, commonsense answers from a woke witness—answers that simply could not be provided.
On May 7, 2025, during the testimony of Fatima Goss Graves, the CEO of the National Women’s Law Center, Mace asked the fundamental question that every reasonable person should be able to answer: “What is a woman?” Graves, a self-proclaimed “leader in the fight for gender justice,” stumbled in her response, offering an answer that was both vague and contradictory.
In what was a truly jaw-dropping moment, Mace immediately called out Graves, pressing her for a clear definition. “What do you consider a female?” she demanded. “Shouldn’t you be able to define one of your women’s rights?” Mace continued, grilling Graves: “Do women have penises?” It was a direct challenge to the left’s radical agenda to erase biological sex in favor of self-identification.
Graves struggled to answer, mumbling about women identifying as women. But that didn’t satisfy Mace, who wasn’t about to let this weak, woke response slide. “Democrats have gone so crazy, women can have penises,” Mace snapped. “That’s not biology. It’s not science, and you sound like a lunatic.” She pressed further: “Should young girls just get used to penises in their locker rooms and showers?”
Graves, seemingly bewildered, could only respond with, “I don’t know what you’re talking about.” But Mace wasn’t backing down. She hammered the point, refusing to let Graves escape from the absurdity of her position. “Oh, you absolutely do,” Mace retorted, referencing the widespread push to allow biological males—those who identify as women—to compete in women’s sports.
Mace’s criticism didn’t stop there. She blasted the left’s insistence on “inclusion” at the expense of women’s spaces, arguing, “If a man can just identify as a woman, what’s the point of having women’s sports? What’s the point of women’s scholarships? Why even bother with women’s spaces if you’re going to let men take them over?”
The tension was palpable as Mace continued, refusing to let Graves derail the conversation. At one point, Graves interrupted, but Mace firmly shot back, “I’m not asking you a question, I’m speaking.” She then went on the offensive, reminding Graves and her woke allies of the dangers of allowing left-wing gender ideology to dictate the future of women’s rights.
Mace didn’t mince words when she accused the left of hypocrisy in their so-called “fight for women’s rights.” “You’re the first to take them away, steal them, and tear these women down. You are the first to erase them,” Mace stated. “I didn’t come here to play with an ideology hellbent on erasing women and grooming children.”
The exchange left no room for doubt—Nancy Mace is not afraid to stand up for common sense, for women, and for the basic principles of biology that the radical left is determined to destroy. She called out the left’s dangerous agenda and underscored how it threatens to undermine everything that women’s sports and women’s rights have worked so hard to achieve.
