GOP Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia advocated for transgender people to be beaten "into the ground" in an appearance on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' Infowars.
Greene, who referred to transgender people as a "perversion," made the remarks in response to a story about nonbinary counselors at the Pali Institute outdoor education program in Running Springs, California, sleeping in the same cabin as young girls.
Although the camp's owner has denied the allegations, which have been making the rounds on conservative media, and noted that the nonbinary counselors who slept in the same cabin were not “biologically male," Greene was firm in her belief that being transgender is "straight-up evil," suggesting that the community is comprised of sexual predators.
You can hear Greene's remarks in the video below.
Greene's statements completely ignored the Pali Institute's remarks to news outlets noting that the use of "they/them" pronouns "Is not restricted to biological males."
She said:
“I think it’s straight-up evil."
“If I was a parent and my fifth-grade daughter had to sleep and shower in some kind of cabin at some summer camp that I paid money to send my child to, and there was a man calling himself a woman sleeping in her cabin, showering with her, that guy would, he’d be in jail."
"He would be in jail. Well, first off, my husband would’ve beat him into the ground, and then he’d be in jail. But this is exactly how we need to stand up against this stuff.”
Greene went on to refer to being transgender as a "perversion" and was emphatic in her belief that children are being “groomed” to accept transgender people and even to come out as transgender themselves.
She then proceeded to evoke the Republican-concocted fiction of transgender predators lying in wait in public restrooms and suggested that transgender athletes should not be allowed to compete in team sports:
“I don’t think it’s wrong to stand up and say, ‘We aren’t going to tolerate this.' ‘Men, get out of our bathroom. Get out of our sports. These are our private places.’”
Greene's remarks garnered heavy criticism.
Marjorie Taylor Greene suggests transgender counselors should've been beaten 'into the ground' for sleeping in cabin with young girls https://www.rawstory.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-2656783429/\u00a0\u2026 I guess there are no bounds to this brainless fools STUPIDITY!!! @RepMTG— @BJ19807025 (@@BJ19807025) 1645732654
This is demented thinking by an uninformed fact anemic member of congress. Vote her out. #LGBTQhttps://twitter.com/lgbtqnation/status/1496928740168781832\u00a0\u2026— Truth Matters \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08 (@Truth Matters \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08) 1645730992
A sitting congresswoman is openly talking about beating trans people "into the ground."\n\nLast year was the deadliest on record for transgender Americans. At least 45 people were killed by violence driven out of hate, bigotry and transphobia.https://www.vice.com/en/article/4awbxd/marjorie-taylor-greene-violence-trans-people\u00a0\u2026— Congresswoman Marie Newman (@Congresswoman Marie Newman) 1645739461
Republican Congresswoman and Fascist Prick Marjorie Taylor Greene has now directly incited violence against transgender people in public *and* directly called for our imprisonment and we are just SPRINTING toward pink triangles and concentration camps.\n\nGet out while you can.https://twitter.com/AriDrennen/status/1496595345769320451\u00a0\u2026— Alexis Vandom \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\u26a7\ufe0f (@Alexis Vandom \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\u26a7\ufe0f) 1645726041
If you have an intersex baby in Rome, GA, will Marjorie Taylor Greene mislabel the child transgender and murder your sweet little baby?— Jamesa (@Jamesa) 1645797085
Can all ignorant, racist, hate-mongering homophobes like\n@RepMTG be "beaten into the ground" for existing?\n\nI don't have the words in my vocabulary to accurately convey how much I loathe this despicable heap of #trailertrash.\n#Disgusting #hatespeechhttps://www.rawstory.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-2656783429/\u00a0\u2026— Chance Austin #resist (@Chance Austin #resist) 1645754596
Why is this no-lipped barbarian still in Congress??https://twitter.com/lgbtqnation/status/1496928740168781832\u00a0\u2026— SUJ \ud83d\ude37 (@SUJ \ud83d\ude37) 1645730727
MTG having a normal one, suggesting violence is necessary to "stand up" to transgender and nonbinary people.\n\nThe silence of the GOP is deafening, probably because encouraging hate crimes against minorities is their whole playbook these days.https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-trans-violence-alex-jones-1682223\u00a0\u2026— Trick Question (A. Wolf / Trixie / Trickster) (@Trick Question (A. Wolf / Trixie / Trickster)) 1645817171
Greene has a history of dehumanizing transgender people.
She made headlines last year after she raised the anti-trans flag outside her office, which happens to sit directly across from the office of Representative Marie Newman, an Illinois Democrat. Earlier, Newman had raised a trans flag to support her transgender daughter following a contentious debate about the Equality Act, which Greene opposed.
Greene's behavior drew bipartisan criticism, including from Republicans who'd earlier voted to strip her of her committee assignments after she made anti-Semitic remarks and promoted violence against Democrats.
She recently garnered significant criticism after she melted down after someone vandalized an anti-transgender sign she displays outside her office, referring to the culprits as "crazy and deranged."
