"You're groomers", Mace vs. Fatima Goss Graves at the DOGE sports hearing
A supercut of three verbatim moments from Rep. Nancy Mace's questioning of Fatima Goss Graves, President and CEO of the National Women's Law Center, at the May 7, 2025 DOGE Subcommittee hearing on women's sports, from the opening question on defining woman, through the trans athletes exchange, to Mace calling the witnesses "groomers."
On May 7, 2025, Fatima Goss Graves, President and CEO of the National Women's Law Center, testified before the DOGE Subcommittee at a hearing titled “Unfair Play: Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports.” Rep. Nancy Mace questioned her on the definition of “woman” and on transgender athletes in women’s sports.
This supercut stitches three verbatim moments from that exchange, each cut from the official C-SPAN feed and captioned word-for-word:
- “Ms. Goss Graves. What is a woman?”, Mace’s opening question, framed around Goss Graves’s prior statement that “trans women are women.”
- “Democrats have gone so crazy women can have penises. That’s not biology. It’s not science.”, Mace’s response during the trans athletes exchange.
- “You’re groomers.”, Mace’s accusation directed at the witnesses: “You all are shameful. I didn’t come here to play with an ideology, helping erase women and grooming children. That’s what you all are. You’re groomers.”
Goss Graves and the National Women’s Law Center dispute Mace’s characterizations; they have stated that inclusive policies do not harm women’s sports and that Mace’s accusation is false and defamatory. The footage documents a sitting congresswoman’s own words at a public hearing.
The footage is the official C-SPAN congressional hearing feed (a U.S. government work / public domain).
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