GOP lawmaker scraps with Democrat in hearing over transgender 'slur,' bathroom rights: 'Not going to have it'
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A House Oversight Committee hearing on government efficiency devolved into theatrics and a "slur" used to describe transgender people while discussing USAID funds.
When Mace's five minutes were up, ranking member Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., made a point of parliamentary inquiry to the committee chairman to chide Mace for using the word "trannies," a term "that is considered a slur in the LGBTQ community, and the transgender community." Jamie Joseph is a writer who covers politics. She leads Fox News Digital coverage of the Senate.
"Let me please finish without interruption," Connolly said, before Mace cut him off and repeated the term several more times.
"Tranny, tranny, tranny, I don't really care, you want penises and women's bathrooms, and I'm not going to have it OK, no, thank you – it's disgusting," Mace barked back.
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