Business Insider.The Buttigiegs have recently become fodder for socially conservative right-wingers, who have been incensed at the couple’s decision to adopt twins and by the Secretary’s decision to use parental leave to take care of the newborns shortly after they we’re born.
Greene also attacked Lia Thomas, the UPenn swimmer who is the NCAA women’s 500-yard freestyle champion, deadnaming Thomas and echoing comments made by other conservatives that Thomas should not have been allowed to compete. “And old Lia Thomas?
Lia is going to have to remember his name is William, and he needs to go back to men’s swimming because we’re going to kick the biological men out of women’s sports,” Greene said.Greene has been a vocal critic of transgender rights, often misgendering transgender individuals and attacking their family members, as she did with fellow Congresswoman Marie Newman’s (D-Ill.) daughter.
After Greene railed against the Equality Act — a measure to prohibit discrimination against LGBTQ people in various facets of life — as “an attack on God’s creation,” Newman hung up a transgender flag outside her office, prompting Greene to hang up a sign reading: “There are two genders: Male & Female. ‘Trust the Science!'” across from Newman’s office.Greene subsequently made transphobic remarks about Newman’s daughter at a GOP fundraiser for Congresswoman Mary Miller, a downstate Illinois Republican, according to WBEZ Chicago. “[Newman’s] so-called daughter is a trans, biological adult son, approximately close to the same age as my two, very much biological real girls — daughters,” Greene said.
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