Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Embarrassing Turnout at Anti-Trans Rally
An attempt was made to rally anti-trans activists in an epic expression of unity and democracy, a courageous display of right-wing ideology meant to save the soul of this country, but it turned instead into an epic fail when only a handful of people showed up.
Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has been a longtime enemy toward pro-LGBTQ legislation, going so far as to call her democratic opponents the “party that represents grooming children” in response to democratic candidates supporting protection laws for transgender minors.
Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene serves Georgia’s 14th District and has partnered with Chloe Cole, a de-transitioned social media activist, to pass the Protect Children’s Innocence Act, a new legislation which seeks to criminalize gender affirmation surgery for minors. Among other attendees was James Lindsay (the guy who said LGBTQ people were “mentally unwell, antisocial fetishists demanding society validate their kinks,” remember him?), a Moms for Liberty representative, Jay Richards from the Heritage Foundation, and some guy called Billboard Chris (who supplied the billboards, naturally).
This uncanny carnival procession came together (all 12 of them) to share their beliefs (gender ideology is a pseudo-religious cult that is brainwashing our children) and snap a few photos for Twitter. “We will end this together,” Tweets Chloe Cole.
The proposed Protect Children’s Innocence Act will ban public health facilities from providing transition-related treatment and care to minors and will prevent them from receiving financial sponsorship from the federal government for endorsing gender-affirming care. This includes a number of psychological and medical practices beneficial to the emotional, interpersonal, and biological welfare of transgender people. Other states have already set into motion bills which restrict the amount of gender-affirming medical care these institutions are permitted to give, states such as Florida, Alabama, Arizona, Ohio, and several others.
Banning this kind of care is not only harmful because it inhibits the delivery of medical care for transgender youth, but also because it increases the likelihood that transgender youth will seek nonprofessional, more dangerous methods of transitioning without access to treatments.
Congresswoman Greene is hoping to ban the teaching of gender ideology in schools. But barring this talk from our education system obstructs the pathways to learning about such measures safely under the administration of trained medical professionals. Censoring this information from education systems will have detrimental negative impacts on transgender youth and can lead to less informed decisions about their health and wellbeing—which is quite the opposite from protecting our youth.
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