Congresswoman Nancy Mace says she was assaulted by a transgender rights advocate who “accosted” her in a congressional workplace constructing.
The South Carolina Republican, who has crusaded to exclude transgender girls from Capitol Hill girls’s restrooms, advised police that the “pro-trans man” grabbed her, injuring her wrist and arm.
The particular person accused of accosting Congresswoman Nancy Mace on the Capitol pleads not responsible to an assault cost
“A brand new wrist brace and a few ice for the arm and it’ll heal simply nice,” Mace tweeted.
Capitol Hill police stated they charged James McIntyre, 33, of Illinois, with assaulting a public official Tuesday night after questioning him concerning the incident.
It was not instantly clear whether or not McIntyre, an award-winning Chicago advocate for kids in foster care, was jailed by police.
He was apparently attending an occasion selling foster care that Mace additionally spoke at on the Rayburn Office Building.
Colleagues stated McIntyre shook Mace’s hand exterior the workplace constructing and requested her to guard the rights of transgender youngsters, in accordance with a report by The Imprint, an unbiased information website that covers “the welfare of kids and nation’s youth justice programs.”
“From what I noticed, it was a traditional handshake and an interplay that I might count on any legislator to count on from anybody as a voter,” Elliott Hinkle, an advocate for foster youngsters and LGBTQ youth, advised the Imprint.
Mace has launched a fierce campaign towards transgender girls in current weeks, particularly since Rep. Sarah McBride (D-Delaware) gained election as the primary brazenly transgender member of Congress.
Mace efficiently pushed Republican leaders to ban transgender girls from utilizing girls’s loos on Capitol Hill and hopes to go a invoice barring them from utilizing girls’s loos in any federal constructing.
Republicans try to capitalize on a robust backlash towards transgender rights that analysts say helped push GOP beneficial properties in current elections.
President-elect Trump has spent tens of thousands and thousands of {dollars} on advertisements accusing Democratic rival Kamala Harris of being too supportive of transgender rights.
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