Trans activist arrested after assaulting GOP Congresswoman Nancy Mace at U.S. Capitol building

Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace has claimed she was “physically accosted” by a trans rights activist at the US Capitol on Tuesday.

James McIntyre, 33, was arrested at the Rayburn House office building in connection with the incident, Capitol Police said.

Mace, who has campaigned to ban trans women from women’s facilities around Congress, said the alleged attack stemmed from her “fight to protect women.”

She posted on X: “I was physically accosted on Capitol grounds tonight for my fight to protect women. Capitol Police arrested him.

“All the violence and threats prove our point. Women deserve to be safe. Your threats won’t stop my fight for women!’

The suspect, McIntyre, a native of Illinois, is charged with assault on a public official.

A Capitol Police spokesperson said, according to The New York Post, “Just before 6 p.m., the Congressman’s office reported an incident at the Rayburn House office building.

“House Division officials and agents from the Threat Assessment Division located the suspect.”

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‘After an investigative interrogation, officers arrested the suspect.’

Mace, a Republican from South Carolina, is campaigning to ban transgender lawmaker Sarah McBride from using the women’s restrooms around Congress.

The Democratic representative-elect is the first openly trans politician elected to Congress and is the highest-ranking elected trans politician in the country’s history.

Mace has said that her PTSD from sexual assault prompted her to ban McBride from entering the women’s restrooms and locker rooms.

The 47-year-old has posted videos in which he calls McBride a man, repeatedly talks about their genitals and criticizes transgenderism.

Last month, Mace introduced a bill that would force House members and staff to use the bathrooms that correspond to their biological gender.

In concrete terms, the measure would mean that McBride, who was born as a man, would have to use the men’s facilities.

The Capitol’s top security officer, the Sergeant at Arms, would be tasked with enforcing the policy.

“Just the idea of ​​a man sitting in a locker room with me as a survivor of sexual assault sends me over the edge, and I’m just not going to tolerate it,” Mace previously said.

Mace has said her PTSD from sexual assault prompted her to ban McBride from entering women’s restrooms and locker rooms.

Mace, a South Carolina Republican, is campaigning to ban transgender lawmaker Sarah McBride (pictured) from using the women’s restrooms around Congress

“And I’m really proud of the women and girls who feel the courage and bravery to stand up and shout from the rooftops that this is not okay.”

“There’s a big difference between being pro-civil liberties and then being pro-women,” Mace continued. ‘Women have rights and we are not going to erase them.’

Mace and her staff have been subjected to a number of threats since she pushed for the ban in November.

She previously said that “trantifa” wanted to kill her following a report on X about a trans person in Portland, Oregon who threatened to kill her.

‘NGL. I had to google ‘trantifa’. I learned a lot this week,” Mace wrote last November.

“These people deserve a room in jail and/or a psychiatric ward,” she continued before calling out Oregon leaders.

“I also wonder out loud what @Portland_State and Oregon Governor @TinaKotek think about an alleged student threatening to kill a congressman?” she continued.

She responded to a post identifying the person who posted a series of threats against Mace and author JK Rowling as a 24-year-old transgender student activist from Portland.

‘Trantifa’ is a term that refers to the increase in extremism and the threat of violence from far-left transgender activists. A United Nations researcher warned about this trend last year.