A 28-year-old Indianapolis woman will plead guilty after threatening to kill anti-trans Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC).

Shayla Addison has been charged with two counts of Influencing a Federal Official by Threat after sending multiple texts to Mace’s campaign number that included threats like, “Come outside b**ch we’ll kill you” and “Tread lightly,” according to a press release from the Southern District of Indiana U.S. Attorney’s Office. 

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“By sending the messages, Addison intended to retaliate against Victim 1 on account of Victim 1’s performance of official duties,” the release explains.

Addison also emailed Mace, saying, “We will kill you and blow that whole building up b**ch come outside,” and wrote threatening comments on her Instagram such as, “I hope you got mace… cause you gone need it” and “Shut up h** I’ll kill you.” Addison made all of the threats on the same day, according to the release.

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The release did not name the lawmaker, but the South Carolina Daily Gazette reported that text message screenshots shared by a Mace spokesperson matched the quotes from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Court records examined by the Gazette found that Addison has agreed to plead guilty. She faces up to 10 years in federal prison, though officials have reportedly agreed to recommend a sentence on the “low end” of that.

Mace recently lamented having to adjust her life due to the many threats she gets. “I’m not able to move around freely anymore, and it’s troubling, but that’s the world that we live in,” she said, adding, “We all have the right to have our viewpoints, but we don’t have the right to bring harm to somebody.”

“I have had to change everything about the way that I live,” Mace continued. “I basically live in hiding… I can’t run errands. Life is just different, and it’s difficult.”

She then declared, “No one should live in fear because of their political or religious beliefs.”

Mace, however, has made it clear she does not believe transgender people have the same right to live without fear or threat. The self-described “proud transphobe” has built her political brand around vicious anti-trans rhetoric, including publicly bullying her trans colleague, Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE).

She also lobbed transphobic slurs at a student, shouted these slurs during a speech and a House committee meeting, publicly bullied a trans influencer, was booed when discussing a trans activist’s genitals at a public talk, targeted two universities in her state for offering more than two gender options on certain student forms, referred to McBride as “it” and “a man” in a TV news appearance, and called trans people “mentally ill” (even though trans identity isn’t considered a mental illness by any major medical or psychological association).

Mace has called trans people “the most egregious, most vile, violent people on earth,” adding, “They are mentally ill and should be in a straitjacket with a hard-steel lock on it.”

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