A transgender woman from Greenville was taken into custody on May 15 for threatening to kill South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace.
Roxie Wolfe, 19, who was arrested under their legally recognized name, Samuel Theodore Cain, made a post targeting Mace on April 26 on the Elon Musk-owned social media website X (Twitter). according to the State Law Enforcement Division (SLED).
“I’m going to assassinate representative Nancy Mace with a gun and I’m being 100 percent dead ass,” the post read, before being deleted. Four days afterward, Wolfe spoke with federal agents about message, admitting to making the threat online. As of last week, Wolfe has been booked into the Greenville County Detention Center.
Wolfe’s motivation for making the post has been connected with comments made by Mace following a speech at the University of South Carolina days before. When a 20-year-old transgender student had asked Mace to apologize for using the word “tranny,” Mace asked her about the derogatory nature of the word, right before repeating it three times and posting a clip of the exchange on her social media, including on X, gaining national attention along with, allegedly, Wolfe’s ire.
This incident is far from the first time that Mace has intentionally antagonized the LGBTQ+ community, and specifically transgender individuals, all for her political gain in the hateful anti-trans brand she has cultivated over time.
Whether coming up with bathroom bills barring transgender people from entering women’s bathrooms at the Nation’s Capital, in response to Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE) being voted into office or speaking against civil protections for trans people as a protected class while in Iowa, Mace has made it her mission to offend as many people as possible. In the wake of her actions, despite claiming that she is pro-women, many have been accosted for looking even the slightest bit out of character or masculine, as in the case of Walmart firing a 6’4″ cisgender woman after being threatened by a man who thought she was trans.
While QNotes does not condone violence of any kind, given her increasingly aggressive history towards the LGBTQ+ community, despite at one point being an ally, it does not come as a surprise when Mace herself admitted to getting death threats on a regular basis while speaking at Wolfe’s preliminary hearing last week.
“My kids live in fear about being killed,” she said. “My kids live in fear about being murdered. They live in fear about their mom being shot. And that was what was top of mind for me this morning, is that my kids live with that fear.”
It is that same type fear that transgender citizens live every day due to their identities all around the United States, as well as around the world, and yet, Mace and her co-conspirators persist.
Wolfe is currently being held without bond until their next appearance before a circuit court judge. The maximum penalty for threatening a public official is a $5,000 fine and five years in prison.