Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is using a 12-year-old boy to trumpet her ideas on gender, sharing footage of a pre-teen speaking — with uncommon eloquence — in defense of his right to express his binary-genders-only viewpoint.
Greene shared the post, adding “This is what courage looks like.”
Greene, who has been disciplined even by those in her own party for speaking her “truth” in committee hearings (she impugned a witness, calling him a liar), also took the opportunity to commiserate with the “brave boy,” saying, “I know how he feels.”
Brave boy!
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) April 30, 2023
This is what courage looks like and I know how he feels.
I keep a sign outside my office in the Cannon building that says, “There are only two genders.”
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Greene goes on in a much longer tweet to say: “I get attacked for it everyday, but this 12 yr old boy should not be intimidated and punished by the adults running his tax payer funded school for wearing a t-shirt that declares, not only his speech, but the fundamental truth that science cannot deny.”
I get attacked for it everyday, but this 12 yr old boy should not be intimidated and punished by the adults running his tax payer funded school for wearing a t-shirt that declares, not only his speech, but the fundamental truth that science cannot deny.
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) April 30, 2023
Gender is not a choice…
“There are only two genders.” That’s what was printed on the shirt this 12-year-old wore to school on March 21, when he allegedly found himself reprimanded by staff and asked to remove his shirt because it was making some students “feel unsafe,” as he reports.
They boy was told, he says, that his shirt was “targeting a protected class.” He objects saying that the words on his shirt were “nothing harmful, nothing threatening, just a statement I believe to be a fact.”
The controversial Libs of TikTok account shared footage of the boy, who is purported to be addressing his local school board. In a two-and-a-half minute speech, the child presents an argument for his right to wear the t-shirt bearing the “five simple words” –under his free speech protections guaranteed by the First Amendment.
He also argues that his actions didn’t “disrupt” school — he “would have noticed,” he says — and that, indeed, many of his classmates agreed with his view.
Greene wrote in her longer Twitter thread that the “true crimes being committed are adults twisting the minds of children to believe these horrific lies.” Both sides of the divisive political issue, watching the 12-year-old make his case, will probably agree.
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