Marjorie Taylor Greene faces backlash after attacking transgender admiral

Consultant Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican, sparked backlash on-line on Saturday over her feedback about Admiral Rachel Levine, a transgender federal official.

Levine, the primary overtly transgender federal official confirmed by the U.S. Senate, has been the US assistant secretary for well being for the U.S. Division of Well being and Human Providers (HHS) since 2021 and has endorsed gender-affirming take care of these going via puberty, saying it has the “highest assist” from President Joe Biden’s administration.

Lately, conservative lawmakers have been transferring to restrict LGBTQ+ individuals’s rights, with lots of of payments geared toward these points being launched nationwide. Greene has been one of many Republican figures who has taken motion in opposition to trans-related matters.

In a put up on X, previously Twitter, on Saturday, Greene shared her response to a video that includes Levine, which was produced by the HHS throughout Black Historical past Month to lift consciousness of the disproportionate affect of local weather change on the Black neighborhood.

“Here’s a man pretending to be a lady claiming the local weather is hurting black People greater than others. That is the Democrat Get together. Psychological sickness on full show,” the congresswoman wrote in her put up.

Newsweek has reached out to Greene’s workplace and Levine’s workplace by way of e-mail for remark.

Nevertheless, some have taken to X to slam Greene for her criticism of Levine and the transgender neighborhood.

X person ILoveMyDogs2023 wrote, “This individual is a US citizen and has each proper to be who she desires to be. What’s un-American is YOU DONT WANT HER TO BE HERSELF. You need her to be who YOU assume individuals needs to be. This is not a matter of wokeness. It’s you discriminating in opposition to somebody who’s totally different than you.”

Person bobbld wrote, “How about having an open thoughts to being accepting and inclusive of different people who find themselves totally different than you?If that had been the case because you took workplace, you might have carried out extra for the American individuals.”

In the meantime, X person Nicholas James appeared to agree with the congresswoman’s feedback and wrote, “Not an actual Admiral both.”

This isn’t the primary time Greene has taken purpose at Levine because the congresswoman beforehand took to the Home flooring in November and mentioned she had launched an modification to “castrate” Levine’s wage to $1, arguing that it was akin to Levine’s stance on gender-affirming genital surgical procedures.

Whereas repeatedly misgendering Levine and utilizing her beginning identify, Greene additionally accused Levine of “grooming” younger adults and referred to as her “a mentally ailing man” who’s “empowering children to mutilate and castrate themselves.”

She continued: “My modification makes use of the Holman rule (an modification to appropriations laws that may scale back the wage of or fireplace particular federal staff) to scale back, no castrate, the wage of assistant secretary for well being Richard Levine to $1, the identical approach he helps castrating youngsters that suffer from gender dysphoria.”

Nevertheless, the modification was rejected by 46 Republicans and 208 Democrats, whereas 170 Republican Home members voted in favor of the modification.