Marjorie Taylor Greene calls for “impeachment” of first trans admiral in hateful statement
backed by the science on the matter. The linked Republican National Committee tweet says that Levine was talking about “reassignment surgery” even though she doesn’t mention surgery in the clip and gender affirming surgery is not performed on minors.Related: Marjorie Taylor Greene says Democrats “want to turn your kids gay”“I’m calling for the impeachment of Dr. ‘Rachel’ Levine,” Greene wrote, then sharing Levine’s deadname for no apparent reason other than to attack her transgender identity.“Drugs preventing puberty and genital mutilation is not life saving care, it’s child abuse and extremely dangerous,” Greene continued, taking the RNC’s unfounded insinuation that Levine was talking about surgery and making it specifically about bottom surgery.
Puberty blockers have been shown to decrease the lifelong risk of suicide in transgender people who want them as adolescents.“Leave children alone, let them grow up safely.
Impeach Levine!”Greene’s tweet has been hidden behind a message on the platform calling it “hateful conduct.” The message says that the tweet can still be viewed because “it may be in the public’s interest for the Tweet to remain accessible,” possibly referring to how Greene’s constituents should know about her hatred of transgender people.Greene got her start in political activism by protesting drag queens at libraries.
Despite the eclectic issues she campaigned on, she has remained true to her anti-LGBTQ roots during her term in Congress, trying to shut down Congress because it was considering a bill to ban anti-LGBTQ discrimination and displaying an anti-transgender sign outside here office.Several weeks ago, she told far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, “My husband would’ve beat [a transgender camp.
