‘Deranged!’ CNN S.E. Cupp Slams Nancy Mace For ‘Performative’ U-Turn On Transgender Rights
Conservative CNN analyst S.E Cupp and ex-Trump administration co-panelist Alyssa Farah Griffin unleashed on Rep. Nancy Mace’s (R-SC) as “deranged” and having “gone crazy” over her ongoing feud with Rep.-elect Sarah McBride (D-DE), the first transgender woman elected to Congress.
Mace’s reaction to McBride’s election comes as a push to ban transgender women from using women’s restrooms in the Capitol—a move she has described as a stand for “safety and privacy.”
After McBride proposed a resolution to establish inclusive restroom policies, Mace vowed to “double down” with similar proposals, even comparing the presence of transgender women in women’s facilities to “assault” during an interview with Fox News. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) quickly backed Mace, implementing a bathroom block.
The debate made its way to CNN’s The Source on Monday night, where Cupp, a Republican herself, didn’t hold back.
Prompted by host Kaitlin Collins highlighting that as recently as 2023, Mace said that she supported transgender rights, Cupp responded:
I think what she was doing was leading with compassion on an issue that is very emotional for a lot of people. I think the point she was making there is a popular one. And you can have within that same framework of trans rights when you can say, ‘well, this I think is fair and this is unfair maybe to our girls in sports’, for example, you can say that there are a lot of policy issues to discuss in this bucket of trans rights.
The problem is Nancy Mace went crazy. I mean, it is deranged. To do 326 tweets in 72 hours is deranged. That’s not normal and it’s performative. The second one, a trans woman gets into Congress and it’s completely performative because she will have her own private bathroom in her congressional office.
“Every member office has a private bathroom for the members of Congress,” Griffin said, nodding along.
Cupp continued: “So this is cruel and it’s to be punitive and it’s to be on display. Being punitive, punitive And it doesn’t have to be that way. Like I said, you could have a very good policy conversation about these complicated issues. This is not it. This is just gross.”
Fellow analyst Alyssa Farah Griffin agreed, accusing Mace of picking a fight McBride isn’t interested in.
“McBride campaigned on pocketbook issues for Delaware voters—not to be a spokesperson for any movement,” Griffin said.
She added: This is such a small issue that only affects people in the Capitol and really just one person it really doesn’t affect. And this notion of victimhood and this that like you can’t be in a bathroom with somebody who’s trans. It’s just insulting to the community. And I don’t think most Americans actually feel that way.”
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