Democrats Cater to Trans Activists While Compromising Women’s Safety

The ongoing pursuit of “social justice” by the left has taken a troubling turn, leading to an outright assault on women.

This movement is marked by an agenda so disconnected from reality that it poses a threat to the very essence of womanhood.

Last week, the extremes of gender ideology reached a new milestone when more than two dozen radical trans activists invaded a women’s restroom in the US Capitol.

This demonstration was intended to oppose my actions to safeguard women’s private spaces. Those detained included Chelsea Manning — a biological male known for leaking classified military documents.

These activists aimed not only to disrupt legislative functions; they sought to create a public scene, placing men in women’s bathrooms to intimidate women and make a political point.

This is not progress — it’s an attack on the dignity, privacy, and safety of women.

The entire transgender movement falls apart with one fundamental question: What constitutes a woman?

No one on the left appears capable of providing a coherent definition of what a woman truly is.

Being a woman is not a vague notion. It’s neither a feeling nor a checkbox on a form.

It’s tangible. It’s biological. It’s scientific.

The reality is that the Democratic Party cannot align itself with women while consistently compromising our rights to appease the loudest and most extreme factions within its ranks.

When progressive initiatives are based in truth and aim to rectify genuine injustices, they can bring about significant positive change.

Movements such as women’s suffrage, the fight against segregation, and the civil rights movement demonstrate what committed activists can achieve when their efforts are based in reality and common sense.

Yet in 2024, the left’s unyielding quest for so-called “progress” has gone awry.

It has been taken over by a radical egalitarianism that dismisses biology, science, and basic truths, dismantling social norms and asserting that men can become women merely by stating so.

This is not progress — it’s a perilous rejection of reality that endangers everything women have fought for.

In their relentless drive for change, everything is subject to challenge — as seen in their attempts to invade women’s restrooms, changing rooms, and locker rooms.

Tomorrow, who knows what they will advocate for?

It’s not progress to erase women. It’s not equality to compromise women’s safety.

And it certainly doesn’t embody feminism to force women to take a backseat to men with mental health challenges.

True advocacy for women focuses on protecting them from tangible harm, not superficial virtue-signaling. It aims to ensure that every woman has the resources and protections necessary to thrive, work, and achieve the American Dream.

It involves confronting the real issues that women face — not reinterpreting the very definition of what a woman is.

Advocacy for women requires fighting for access to contraception, enabling couples facing infertility to afford IVF, and resolving the backlog of rape kits so survivors do not endure extended waits for justice.

It involves protecting the privacy and safety of women in restrooms, locker rooms, prisons, and shelters.

It guarantees women’s constitutional rights under Article IV, providing them with equal protection under the law.

Yet Democrats seem uninterested in these matters.

Instead, they prioritize policies that obscure the distinctions between the sexes and compel women to compete against biological men in sports, share private spaces, and forfeit their opportunities.

They are overtly erasing women in plain sight.

These fears aren’t merely theoretical. They are manifesting in real time, costing women dearly. If it were left to the left, women would find themselves with no safe spaces.

If Democrats truly wish to champion women, they must start acting accordingly.

Until then, the crusade of gender ideology will continue to be a crucial issue for Republicans as women recognize the leftist progressive agenda for what it is: an obliteration of all that we as women have fought to gain.

Republican Rep. Nancy Mace represents South Carolina’s 1st District in Congress.