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"Not Chopping Their Dicks Off": Mace's Entire On-Camera Answer on Military Healthcare. Her Amendment Was Later Stripped Anyway.
Rep. Nancy Mace celebrated a House vote restricting TRICARE gender-affirming care coverage by posting "Our military should be focused on troop readiness, not chopping their dicks off", then yelled at a Democratic colleague on the House floor and followed up by attacking her nose on social media.
A sitting member of Congress posted that to her official X account on July 22, 2026.
"Our military should be focused on troop readiness, not chopping their dicks off - and therefore my amendment to the NDAA passed!"
That is verbatim. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) wrote it herself, on her verified congressional account, attached to a video she filmed outside the Capitol moments after the vote.
The amendment she was celebrating was later quietly stripped from the final negotiated NDAA. She has not commented on that.
Our military should be focused on troop readiness, not chopping their dicks off - and therefore my amendment to the NDAA passed!
Nancy Mace (@NancyMace) July 22, 2026
The Video
The tweet includes a video. In it, a reporter asks Mace a policy question. Her complete answer, verbatim:
Reporter: "For NDAA, why was it so important to have those two, the amendment banning gender-affirming care for TRICARE and the one on sports?"
Mace: "Yeah, we need to be getting our troops ready, not chopping their dicks off. That's it."
She said "That's it." and ended the interview. That was her entire answer to a question about military healthcare policy.
Rep. Nancy Mace outside the Capitol on July 22, 2026. Video: @NancyMace on X.
What the Amendment Does
The amendment Mace is celebrating prohibits TRICARE, the federal healthcare program covering active-duty service members, veterans, and their families, from funding gender-related medical care, including surgeries, puberty blockers, and hormone therapies for the purpose of gender transition.
It passed the House 219-208. Filed in alignment with President Trump's executive order "Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth," the measure tracks what Mace calls "chemical and surgical mutilation" of troops.
In a floor statement, she said: "We want the toughest warfighters in the world, not a military gutted by gender delusion. Chopping off body parts does not make a better soldier."
A second Mace amendment, banning transgender girls from competing in sports at Department of Defense Education Activity schools, passed the same day 221-203.
A separate amendment by Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) that would have permanently codified Trump's executive order banning transgender people from military service entirely was rejected 212-217, with four Republicans crossing the aisle to vote no.
Outside the Capitol, moments after the vote. Video: @NancyMace on X.
The House Floor Fight
The vote was not the only confrontation of the day.
During floor debate, Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-CA) challenged Mace directly. Jacobs argued that many members of Congress have undergone cosmetic procedures, and that the same logic used to attack gender-affirming care applies to filler, Botox, and breast augmentation. "Filler is gender-affirming care," Jacobs said. "Boob jobs is gender-affirming care. Botox is gender-affirming care."
Mace did not engage the argument on its merits. She yelled back from the floor: "You are absolutely ridiculous. What the hell is your problem?" She called Jacobs "disgusting" and "an insult."
Jacobs responded separately: "Stop lashing out against trans kids and pretending it's to 'protect women.'"
The Congressional Equality Caucus condemned the two Mace amendments that passed while celebrating the defeat of the Boebert service ban.
The Twist
Mace's TRICARE amendment passed the House. She celebrated with an anatomically explicit tweet and a video in which her entire policy answer was five words and a dismissal. She fought about it on the floor and attacked a colleague on social media.
Then the provision was stripped.
According to reporting by Erin in the Morning, the final negotiated NDAA bill released Sunday quietly removed the transgender healthcare coverage ban. The provision had passed both the House and Senate versions but did not survive conference negotiations. Mace, who had tweeted "NDAA is out, furiously reading through to see which of our Amendments made it in, and which did not," went conspicuously silent on the defeat.
The bill still contains anti-DEI language and a narrower sports restriction limited to military academy enrollment. The TRICARE ban is gone.
She has not publicly addressed the removal.
Sources & related coverage
- Rep. Nancy Mace / @NancyMace, "not chopping their dicks off" post on X, Jul 22, 2026
- Nancy Mace defends anti-transgender NDAA amendment, Washington Examiner
- House rejects one anti-trans amendment, passes two others, Salon, Jul 22, 2026
- House blocks effort to codify transgender servicemember ban into law, Washington Blade, Jul 22, 2026
- Mace yells at Jacobs on House floor over 'boob jobs is gender-affirming care' comment, AP via AOL News
- Trans Healthcare Coverage Ban Stripped From Negotiated Military NDAA Bill In Sunday Night Surprise, Erin in the Morning
- CEC Celebrates Defeat of Trans Military Ban Amendment, Condemns Passage of Other Anti-LGBTQI+ NDAA Amendments, Congressional Equality Caucus
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