Yahoo Finance GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Transphobic Taunt Slammed On Twitter
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) faced backlash on Wednesday for a tweet mocking assistant health secretary Dr. Rachel Levine, the country’s first transgender four-star officer.
Critics slammed the Donald Trump-adoring, conspiracy theory-endorsing Greene for transphobia with her post, below:
A dude who lived the first 50 years of his life as a man isn’t the first female anything.
China is laughing at us. pic.twitter.com/aevoytoOHf— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) October 20, 2021
Another Trump-worshipping Republican, Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, drew similar outrage with her “welcome to woke medicine, America” post about Levine. Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.) called Boebert “a hateful bigot.”
Greene has made transphobic comments before, even going so far as to post an anti-transgender sign near the office of another representative who has a transgender child.
Critics of Greene’s tweet said they had reported it to Twitter as targeted harassment. The company did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for comment.
Not surprised that you tweeted this. reported…again.
— Sandra Milne (@SandraMilne1) October 20, 2021
This tweet has been reported as targeted harassment
— Patrinia (@MissTrinia01) October 20, 2021
why are you filled with hate
— "Dad" "Hey Dad" "Dad what is this" (@SurfnKrav) October 20, 2021
When did you ever put on the uniform?
Tweet Reported as "Targeted Harrassment"— Josh ''The Notorious JPG'' Gray 🌵 (@jpgftw) October 20, 2021
Just gathered the kids around and used @mtgreenee ‘s tweet as an example to what “hate speech” is and how humans don’t treat other humans.
— Mmmhmm (@WeAreThePpl24) October 20, 2021
@TwitterSafety@Twitter@TwitterSupport does she get to keep posting hate, or does she get consequences?
— Jostina del Fuego, Resistance Rev. (@JennMatt18) October 21, 2021
This article originally appeared on HuffPost and has been updated.
