U.S. Representative Nancy Mace promotes a new congressional bill, dubbed the “TRANS MICE Act,” which she frames as restricting “radical transgender experiments” on mice. The claim has sparked public dispute and criticism online. PinkNews reports that social media users mock Mace’s messaging, arguing the work referenced by her bill does not involve transgender people or related experiments. Instead, they say the research is for cancer studies involving mice, not gender-related experimentation. The Daily Mail also reports that Mace is promoting the measure after being “brutally fact-checked” over her characterization of what the research entails. Across the coverage, the central issue is the accuracy of Mace’s description of the purported mouse experiments and whether the bill targets gender-related work. Both outlets agree that Mace publicly introduced and promoted the measure and that her assertions about the research’s nature have been contested.