Marjorie Taylor Greene calls for “impeachment” of first trans admiral in hateful statement

U.S. Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is calling for the impeachment of Assistant Secretary for Health Admiral Rachel Levine because she’s transgender and because she stood up for gender-affirming health care. Greene’s statement violated Twitter’s ban on “hateful conduct.”

Greene linked a video where Levine called gender-affirming health care “lifesaving, medically necessary, age appropriate, and a critical tool for health care providers,” which is a statement backed by the science on the matter. The linked Republican National Committee tweet says that Levine was talking about “reassignment surgery” even though she doesn’t mention surgery in the clip and gender affirming surgery is not performed on minors.

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“I’m calling for the impeachment of Dr. ‘Rachel’ Levine,” Greene wrote, then sharing Levine’s deadname for no apparent reason other than to attack her transgender identity.

“Drugs preventing puberty and genital mutilation is not life saving care, it’s child abuse and extremely dangerous,” Greene continued, taking the RNC’s unfounded insinuation that Levine was talking about…

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