Rep.
Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) drew fire from her colleagues after she attacked the transgender daughter of a fellow congresswoman, and hung an anti-trans sign outside her office.
On Tuesday, Rep.
Marie Newman (D-IL), whose daughter is transgender, gave a speech on the House floor in support of the Equality Act, which would prohibit discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation.
“I rise today on behalf of the millions of Americans who continue to be denied housing, education, public services and much, much more because they identify as members of the LGBTQ community,” Newman said. “Americans like my own daughter, who years ago bravely came out to her parents as transgender. I knew from that day on, my daughter would be living in a nation wherein most of its states, she could be discriminated against, merely because of who she is.”
25 Feb 2021
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) responded Wednesday to Representative Marie Newman’s (D-IL) statement about Greene’s opposition to the Equality Act by hanging a sign across the hallway from Newman’s congressional office that reads: “There Are TWO Genders: Male & Female, Trust the Science.”
Our neighbor, @RepMarieNewman, wants to pass the so-called “Equality” Act to destroy women’s rights and religious freedoms.
Thought we’d put up ours so she can look at it every time she opens her door https://t.co/7joKpTh6Dcpic.twitter.com/aBGRSiIF6X
Newman posted a video to antagonize Greene by erecting a transgender flag across the hall from Greene’s office door, posting on Twitter, “Our neighbor, @RepMTG, tried to block the Equality Act because she believes prohibiting discrimination against trans Americans is ‘disgusting, immoral, and evil.’ Thought we’d put up our Transgender flag so she can look at it every time she opens her door.”
Newman, who has a transgender daughter, posted a video on Twitter Wednesday afternoon of her placing the flag outside her office after Greene called the Equality Act, which seeks to protect LGBTQ individuals from discrimination, “an attack on God’s creation” and “disgusting, immoral, and evil.”
In response, Newman tweeted the video and thought: “Thought we’d put up our Transgender flag so she can look at it every time she opens her door.”
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Shortly after Newman posted the video online, Greene tweeted a video of Newman on the House floor promoting the Equality Act on the House floor, with Greene calling Newman’s daughter “your biological son.”
By Chelsea SteinerFeb 25th, 2021, 1:07 pm
Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has been in office barely a month and has already made a name for herself as one of congress’s most extreme and dangerous members. Taylor Greene, who was stripped of her committee assignments after repeatedly harassing the Parkland shooting survivors, has a long history of racism, anti-Semitism, and Islamaphobia. But now, Taylor Greene is focusing her hate on the transgender community, and fellow Rep. Marie Newman.
The Illinois congresswoman, whose office is just across from Taylor Greene’s, placed a trans pride flag outside her office to show her support for trans rights. Newman, whose daughter is trans, is a vocal supporter of the Equality Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation and gender identity. The bill is expected to pass in the House but may stall in the Senate, because Congress is somehow actually still debating whether trans folks deserve rights in 2021.
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Though Rep. Marie Newman (D-IL) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) are on opposite sides of the political aisle, their DC Congressional offices are right across the hall from each other.
It was Greene’s close proximity to Newman’s office that prompted the first-term Illinois Congresswoman to put a transgender equality flag on display outside of her own doorway earlier this week after Greene attempted to block the so-called “Equality Act” from moving forward in the House.
Newman boasted about her actions on Twitter and Facebook, proclaiming that Greene believed “prohibiting discrimination against trans Americans is ‘disgusting, immoral, and evil. ” At the end of the clip, you can see Newman rubbing her hands together as though she was declaring the issue over: