Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) said that she would threaten to defund Clemson University over its pro-trans equality policies if she wins the race for South Carolina governor, bringing up a form on the public universitys website that had multiple gender options, something she criticized this past April and is no longer on the universitys website.What I would like to do, Alex, is defund colleges and universities that allow mentally ill men into womens bathrooms and womens spaces, she said on Alex Steins podcast. Stein is also an extreme transphobe who testified in the Texas legislature earlier this month that the government should allow trans people in the military so that they can die in battle. Related Gavin Newsom misgenders gay MAGA activist, calling him Nancy Mace Stein appeared to get upset at the suggestion that Clemson and the University of South Carolina could get their funding cut, but Mace responded: Clemson had a form on their website with 15 genders and male and female werent two of them.Mace was referring to a drop menu on the student information form on Clemsons website that she was outraged by back in April, so outraged that she recorded herself leaving a voicemail expressing her discontent with the president of Clemson. Insights for the LGBTQ+ community Subscribe to our briefing for insights into how politics impacts the LGBTQ+ community and more. Subscribe to our Newsletter today The drop menu, though, didnt have 15 genders. In reality, it had 15 choices of phrases people could use to describe their gender, many of which werent mutually exclusive with other options. Cis-female and cis-male were both options on the list, as well as trans man and trans woman, which meant that there were plenty of options for male and female people to choose from.Stein brought up football funding, and Mace pushed back, saying that threatening the universities funding is also about protecting men.I wanna make sure everybody is following the rules and were keeping women safe and men too because its a liability for women to be in mens spaces, Mace said. There is no evidence that trans women are a threat to cis women in restrooms, and there is no evidence that trans men are a threat to cis men in restrooms either.I want to protect men just as much as I want to protect women. Nancy Mace said she would defund USC and Clemson as governor if they allow trans women to choose their preferred restroom pic.twitter.com/yhYYjASLF8 PatriotTakes (@patriottakes) August 20, 2025Mace announced her gubernatorial campaign earlier this month and has centered her campaign around rolling back rights for transgender people. Her video announcing her campaign mentioned no policy issue other than trans rights, which it brought up in multiple ways. At a campaign event soon after she announced her campaign, she repeated anti-trans slurs and got mad when called out. She also asked the president to put her name on a womens bathroom at his presidential library to honor her for her opposition to trans rights. Mace got a lot of media attention last year for her opposition to trans rights, more than she had received in the past. She introduced two resolutions concerning bathroom issues last November, both to ban trans women from using the womens facilities. One of the resolutions was for the restrooms at the Capitol and was introduced in response to the election of Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE), the first transgender person elected to Congress.In the months since McBrides win, Mace has posted several messages a day to her social media accounts opposing trans peoples rights. She has referred to McBride as it,used anti-trans slurs in committee hearings, andthreatened to fight Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX)for calling out her transphobia.Subscribe to theLGBTQ Nation newsletterand be the first to know about the latest headlines shaping LGBTQ+ communities worldwide.