Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) announced on Tuesday he will resign from Congress after 12 years of service in which he emerged as one of the Democratic Party’s leading political foes against former President Donald Trump.

In a statement, Cicilline said he would stay in office until June 1, 2023, when he will begin his tenure as president and CEO of the Rhode Island Foundation, an influential charity nexus in the state.

His departure from the House paves the way for a special election in Rhode Island’s 1st Congressional District, a heavily Democratic area in the eastern part of the state. After he leaves, Cicilline’s staff will continue serving constituents until a replacement is picked, his office said.

“Serving the people of Rhode Island’s First Congressional District has been the honor of my lifetime,” Cicilline said. “As President and CEO of one of the largest and oldest community foundations in the nation, I look forward to expanding on the work I have led for nearly thirty years in helping to improve the lives of all Rhode Islanders.”

While it was not immediately clear how much money Cicilline will make in his new role, the longtime CEO of the Rhode Island Foundation he is poised to replace, Neil Steinberg, was making more than $1 million a year as of 2019, according to IRS filings reported by WPRI.

“I am thrilled with the choice of Representative Cicilline as the next president and CEO of the Foundation, having seen first-hand — over many years — his commitment to a better Rhode Island,” Steinberg said in a statement. “He has the experience, the skills, the passion, and the network to ably lead the Foundation.”

Cicilline, an openly gay man, served as mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, from 2003 to 2011, before joining Congress. In the House, Cicilline became chairman of the Congressional LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus. He holds a seat on the powerful Foreign Affairs and Judiciary Committees.

After the U.S. Capitol breach on January 6, 2021, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) named Cicilline an impeachment manager. As recently as December, his anti-Trump efforts extended to introducing legislation aimed at barring the former president from holding federal office again.

Cicilline easily won re-election to a two-year term in the 2022 midterm elections. Late last year, he challenged Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) for the House Democrats’ assistant leader position but dropped out at the last minute. Outside of Congress, Cicilline opened a cocktail and tapas bar in downtown Providence last fall.

Members of the Rhode Island delegation cheered Cicilline after he announced his plans on Tuesday.

Cicilline “has been an able, hard-fighting colleague, and I’ll miss his spirit in our delegation, but he’ll be a fabulous leader for [the Rhode Island Foundation] so bravos everywhere,” tweeted Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI).

A clip from a 2005 episode of “South Park” has been making the rounds on social media for mocking transgender ideology and giving a surprisingly honest description of abortion, too.

The episode “Mr. Garrison’s Fancy New Vagina” first aired on March 9, 2005, per IMDb. It features the character Mr. Garrison heading to a Planned Parenthood clinic to procure an abortion after he realizes he hasn’t gotten his period following a gender reassignment surgery procedure.

“Looks like I need an abortion,” Garrison tells the Planned Parenthood doctor, who responds in confusion, “An abortion?”

“Yeah I’ve got one growing inside me, now are you going to scramble its brains or just vacuum it out? If you want you can just scramble it, and I’ll q**** it out myself,” the character tells the doctor.

The doctor explains to Mr. Garrison that he’s “physically unable to have an abortion because you can’t get pregnant,” following up with, “You can’t have periods either, you had a sex change Mr. Garrison, but you don’t have ovaries or a womb, you don’t produce eggs.

“You mean… I’ll never know what it feels like to have a baby growing inside me, and then scramble its brains and vacuum it out?” Mr. Garrison asks.

“That’s right,” the doctor replies.

Mr. Garrison says, “But I paid $5,000 to be a woman, this would mean I’m not really a woman, I’m just a guy with a mutilated penis.”

Reactions to the clip believe this brief exchange perfectly sums up the absurdity of the trans movement.

“In one minute and 25 seconds, [SouthPark] said all the things we aren’t allowed to say about trans ‘women’ and abortions,” one commenter shared.

In one minute and 25 seconds, @SouthPark said all the things we aren’t allowed to say about trans “women” and abortions.#trans #abortion #women #biologicalwomen #SouthPark pic.twitter.com/qArc0zjZqL

— Natalie Argyle (@NatalieArgyle) February 2, 2023

“Here’s South Park mocking the insane idea that men can actually become women. This clip is from 2005,” Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon wrote. “It’s a brutally honest take on the callous savagery of abortion, too. We need more mockery like this.”

At the same time, another clip of “South Park” character Cartman pretending to be transgender so he could use the girls bathroom has also been circulating. That one comes from a 2014 episode where educators knew Cartman was lying about identifying as trans, but Mr. Garrison pointed out that there was nothing they could do about it.