Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene to push for federal anti-LGBT legislation

Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene. Photo: Marco Bello

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Josh Marcos
April 02 2022

Marjorie Taylor Greene is working on a federal version of Florida’s highly controversial “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

The Georgia Republican told Infowars host Alex Jones on Wednesday she was launching an effort to copy the legislation, which bars teachers from providing information about sexual orientation and gender identity, because she wanted to “protect kids”.

“Are you going to introduce a bill because you’ve got the power to do it?” right-wing conspiracy theorist Jones asked the Congress member.

“We would all get behind a bill to pull federal funding out of any school that sexualises children.”

She responded: “Absolutely 100pc. I will meet with my team right after this interview and we will work on it, Alex, because I will do anything I can to protect kids.”

The Georgia Republican has a lengthy history of using her public platform to target LGBT+ people.

“The so called #EqualityAct is evil,” she tweeted in February. “Disguised as #LGBT rights, it expands governmental regulatory reach that destroys women’s rights, religious rights, and rights of the unborn. It is a direct attack on God’s creation.”

That same month, she taped a sign on the door of House of Representatives colleague Marie Newman of Illinois, whose daughter is trans. “There are two genders: male & female... Trust The Science!” the sign read.

Republicans nationwide are ushering in hundreds of proposed bills targeting LGBT+ youth and trans children in particular.

The legislation aims to “take away transgender youth support from their doctors, their parents, their teachers, their coaches, their teammates, their books,” according to the Human Rights Campaign’s senior counsel Cathryn Oakley. (© Independent News Service Ltd 2022)