MORNING HEADLINES | Gubernatorial candidate and U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., is facing backlash after making what some are calling an antisemitic social media comment on Sept. 10 to U.S. Rep. Sara Jacobs, D-Calif., during a disagreement on health care for transgender women.
During a House floor debate on the defense authorization bill that included anti-transgender amendments authored by Mace, The Hill reported Jacobs as saying, “I would just like to point out that it’s interesting my colleague from South Carolina is so obsessed with the issue of trans people, using horrible slurs to talk about them, when many people in this body have received gender-affirming care. Filler is gender-affirming care. Boob jobs is gender-affirming care. Botox is gender-affirming care.”
The comment reportedly led to an outburst on the floor, followed later by a social media comment on X by Mace in which she wrote: “To @RepSaraJacobs, I talk about women’s safety and your response is commentary about my body on the House floor. If you knew anything about survivors you would know some women change their bodies because of the trauma of sexual violence. They live with the consequences for a lifetime.
“PS — I have a good surgeon if you ever want to get your nose done.”
Jacobs responded: “I didn’t say anything about your body but thanks for confirming! And going with the Jewish nose joke … very creative (and also very antisemitic).”
The idea that Jewish noses are unattractive is a longstanding antisemitic stereotype.
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