Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) held an anti-trans rally at the Capitol this week. A whopping 12 or so people attended and no major media outlets covered it.
The rally was a veritable who’s who of contemporary transphobic trolls, including members of the book-banning “parents’ rights” group Moms for Liberty; members of the anti-LGBTQ conservative think tank Heritage Foundation; de-transitioned young adult right-wing media darling Chloe Cole; J.K. Rowling fanboy Chris Elston; conspiracy theorist James Lindsay; sexually harassing “comedian” Alex Stein; and of course, Greene herself.
Gender Ideology doesn’t stand a chance.
Today, @Moms4Liberty, @RepMTG, @billboardchris, @alexstein99, @ConceptualJames, @DrJayRichards, and I met at the US Capitol today to take a stand against gender mutilation.
We will end this together. pic.twitter.com/PtDSwuJxIq— Chloe Cole ⭐️ (@ChoooCole) January 11, 2023
The protestors held signs proclaiming, “Children cannot consent to puberty blockers,” “Gender ideology does not belong in schools,” and signs that defined the words “mom” and “dad” as “a human parent who protects kids from gender ideology.”
Greene brought the transphobic sign that she hangs in front of her congressional office which says, “There are two genders: male and female. ‘Trust the science.'” In reality, biology has proven the existence of numerous animals that can change gender and that gender and sex are both more complicated than binaries.
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The protestors spent their time taking pictures of each other and then re-tweeting one another’s posts about the protest.
In a tweet tagging many of the protestors, the Heritage Foundation wrote that the demonstrators were “calling out policies that push for minors to have access to puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and sex-reassignment surgeries.”
.@ChoooCole, @RepMTG, @BillboardChris, @ConceptualJames, @4TiffanyJustice of @Moms4Liberty, and @Heritage’s @DrJayRichards are calling out policies that push for minors to have access to puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and sex-reassignment surgeries. 🧵👇 pic.twitter.com/m6G8j3Q1Rg
— Heritage Foundation (@Heritage) January 11, 2023
This is a lie, of course. No policies are “pushing” minors to undergo gender-affirming treatment, and surgeries aren’t conducted on minors either. The policies the protestors oppose include acknowledging the existence of LGBTQ+ people in schools and ensuring that trans youth have access to life-saving care as well as an equal education.
Right-wing transphobes imagine that LGBTQ+ people and allies, drag queens, and medical professionals all use “gender ideology” to “indoctrinate” and “groom” impressionable young kids into states of “gender confusion” and “rapid onset gender dysphoria” in order to “mutilate” their bodies in profitable surgeries.
However, every major medical and psychological association recognizes that trans youth self-identify consistently, insistently, and persistently from young ages. They also have deemed access to gender-affirming care as necessary for ensuring the emotional and physical well-being of trans youth.
The rhetoric used by these protestors has helped encourage others to issue death threats against gender-affirming medical professionals and educators alike.