Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., launched a blistering attack on Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz Thursday after he hesitated to answer her simple question during a House Oversight Committee hearing on sanctuary state policies.
“What is a woman?” Mace asked Walz suddenly. The South Carolina Republican caught Walz off guard when she abruptly shifted from asking about his 1990 visit to Tiananmen Square to the simple question, which has perplexed “woke” politicians for years.
“What is a woman?” Mace asked during the hearing. Walz appeared stunned and initially sat silent before Mace repeated her question.
“What is a woman is the question here,” Mace clarified.
“I’m not quite sure I understand your question here,” Walz finally responded. “What do you want me to say?”
The 47-year-old Republican congresswoman raised her voice as she delivered her own definition while launching into a broader attack on Democratic “woke” policies.
“I want you to say a woman like me is an adult human female. That men can’t become women!” Mace declared. “You guys are the party of violence and the party erasing women, you don’t respect us, you’re a bigot, you’re a misogynist, you’re a sexist.”
A woman is a human being born with XX chromosomes. Males are humans born with XY chromosomes.
Mace quickly concluded her time by telling the chairman “Mr. Chairman, I yield back,” leaving Walz in a stunned silence
Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whose turn came next to question the governors, was also stunned by the heated exchange.
“Alright well, that was some kind of Bingo going on over there,” AOC said. “I don’t know what’s going on.”
The confrontation followed a familiar pattern established during Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s 2022 Supreme Court confirmation hearing, when Sen. Marsha Blackburn asked the same question. Jackson had responded that she could not define “woman” because she’s “not a biologist.”
Mace has made opposing transgender policy expansion a central part of her political identity, repeatedly challenging liberal officials to define what a woman is, while defend women’s rights.
Walz became a target for conservative criticism after Vice President Kamala Harris selected him as her running mate, particularly over a Minnesota law requiring schools to provide free tampons in every gender’s bathroom. The law’s failure to distinguish between girls and boys earned Walz the nickname “Tampon Tim” among critics.
Under Walz’s leadership, Minnesota declared itself a “trans refuge state,” allowing children to travel there for medical gender drugs, transition surgery, and sterilization without their home state being able to intervene. His administration has eliminated sex-based protections for girls and women, while biological males have competed against girls in high school sports across the state.
Just last week, a male-born pitcher who identifies as female led Champlin Park High School to a Class AAAA state softball championship in Minnesota. The 17-year-old pitched all 21 innings of the state tournament and gave up just two runs total.
After the hearing, Mace posted about her confrontation with Walz on social media.
“Tampon Tim Walz couldn’t define a woman today in [committee] when I had him in the pressure cooker,” she wrote alongside video of the exchange. “He was speechless.”
Before targeting Walz over gender issues, Mace had also criticized the governor for comparing ICE agents to Nazi Germany’s Gestapo secret police during a graduation speech last month.
“You know that ICE has not committed genocide against anyone?” Mace asked the Minnesota Democrat, referencing his characterization of ICE as “Trump’s modern-day Gestapo.”