SC transgender woman charged with threating to kill U.S. Rep. Mace

An Upstate transgender woman is accused of threatening on social media to kill U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace five days after the congresswoman’s contentious exchange with a transgender student went viral.

Roxie Wolfe, who is identified in the warrant as Samuel Theodore Cain, 19, of Greenville, was arrested Thursday and charged with threatening the life of a public official, according to the State Law Enforcement Division.

The official is not identified in SLED’s four-sentence release or the attached arrest warrant. Portions of the warrant are redacted as per the agency’s policy not to identify victims, according to a spokeswoman.

But the 1st District congresswoman confirmed on multiple social media posts that she was the target.

According to SLED, the accused posted the threat April 26 on X and four days later “admitted to authoring and posting the threat” to federal agents.

“I’m going to assassinate (redacted) with a gun and I’m being 100% dead a–” the post reads on the arrest warrant. While that post has been deleted from X, a repost of it shows the threat in all caps with “Representative Nancy Mace” in the part that SLED blacked out.

Mace thanked Capitol Police and SLED on social media for arresting the person she called a “trans activist.”

While the arrest warrant says Wolfe is a white male, the defendant has identified on social media as transgender, using she/her pronouns.

The accused remained Thursday evening at the Greenville County jail. A bond hearing is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Friday.

The maximum penalty for threatening a public official is a $5,000 fine and five years in prison.

The SC Daily Gazette was unable to determine if she has an attorney.

Mace, who is mulling a bid for governor next year, has repeatedly and intentionally offended transgender people in recent months.

The post was made in the days after Mace doubled down on offensive language with a transgender student following a speech at the University of South Carolina. After the 20-year-old student asked Mace to apologize for using the word “tranny,” Mace asked her if the word was derogatory, then repeated it three times and posted a clip of the exchange on X that got national attention.

“The radical tr*ns movement is no longer just about pronouns,” Mace wrote in one of her multiple posts about Thursday’s arrest. “It’s about silencing anyone who dares to speak the truth. With threats. With violence. With hate.”

According to Mace, it wasn’t the first threat on her life this year.

Last month, Mace told Republicans at the Greenville County GOP convention that she was among the targets of a Pennsylvania man charged with threatening to kill President Donald Trump and other officials.

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