Right-Wingers Bash Anti-Trans Lawmaker for Unwittingly Touting DEI
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Story by Nikki McCann Ramirez (29 Jan 2025)
As President Donald Trump moves to purge DEI and "woke" programs from all swaths of the federal government in a frenzy of executive orders and directives, his supporters are cannibalizing one of their own.
In 1999, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) became the first woman to graduate from The Citadel military college, a previously male-only institution that Mace was granted admission to after the Supreme Court ruled the school could not deny admissions to women if it wished to continue receiving federal funding.
On Monday, seemingly in response to an executive order banning transgender people from serving in the military, Mace wrote on X that she "didn't fight like hell to become the first woman to graduate from The Citadel just for some man in a miniskirt to take away that achievement."
"The lack of self-awareness is mind-boggling," Federalist Senior Editor John Daniel Davidson wrote in response to Mace's post...
"The Citadel was a male-only space forced by law to admit females in the name of diversity and inclusion. That is the exact argument trans-identifying males use to invade female spaces. Nancy Mace was literally a beneficiary of a DEI program. It's a ridiculous and tone deaf thing to brag about in this moment," he added.