GOP Rep Bungles Hurricane Helene Response With Email About 'Childhood Genital Mutilation'

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) left people scratching their heads after her office accidentally mixed up a statement about Hurricane Helene with an abrasive press release about one of her anti-trans pet projects.

On Monday, the lawmaker’s office sent out an email with the subject line “Rep. Nancy Mace Statement on Hurricane Helene,” the Category 4 storm that flattened cities across the southeastern U.S., depriving communities of food and water and leaving hundreds of people unaccounted for.

But instead of finding a statement on the devastating natural disaster, constituents were confronted with a message about Mace’s proposal for the Childhood Genital Mutilation Prevention Act, a bill that would make it a crime for doctors to provide transgender youth with certain types of medical treatment.

“Our children are not guinea pigs in the radical left’s dangerous social experimentation,” the statement declared. “The genital mutilation of young bodies under the guise of progressivism is sick and protecting our children means saying no to this lunacy.”

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