Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) during a Wednesday evening appearance on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” denounced Rep. Nancy Mace’s (R-S.C.) frequent targeting of transgender Americans after the two lawmakers traded barbs on the issue this week in a fiery exchange on Capitol Hill.

During a Tuesday House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing, Crockett asked for the reinstatement of the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, which disbanded in 2023 after Republicans took control of the House.

Mace, the subcommittee's former ranking member, called Crockett’s proposal “hypocritical” because of Crockett’s support for policies that allow transgender women to use women’s single-sex facilities, which Mace said is detrimental to the rights of cisgender, or nontransgender, women.

“I don’t want to hear about you talk about rights, individual rights, civil rights, because you can’t find the courage from the ’60s to fight for women all around America,” Mace said........

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