Controversial Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has sparked outrage after she referred to transgender California Governor candidate Caitlyn Jenner as a “man in a dress” during a Twitter spat between the pair.
Jenner announced herself as a hopeful of the governor role earlier this year and would be running as a Republican.
However, her candidacy has proven to be divisive amongst the Republican party’s ultra-conservative base including Greene, who ranted on Monday that Jenner was playing into “the left’s stupid identity politics” and a “NEVER-Trumper” as well as the aforementioned transphobic insult.
GOP support & consultants working to elect Jenner for Governor in CA are playing the left’s stupid identity politics game.
— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) July 12, 2021
A game that sells out our faith, family, and freedoms.
Stop promoting this man in a dress & NEVER-Trumper.
CA Patriots worked too hard & deserve better.
71-year-old Jenner fired back at Greene by referencing a recent settlement that she made out of court with Ben Meiselas, the co-founder of the anti-Trump media organisation MeidasTouch, after he argued that Greene had violated the First Amendment she blocked the company on Twitter.
Tough talk coming from someone who backed down to the woke mob and settled out of court with a Twitter troll.
— Caitlyn Jenner (@Caitlyn_Jenner) July 12, 2021
Now your money is being used to take guns away from law abiding Americans. https://t.co/ygybugN9ag
Meiselas himself responded to Greene’s attack on Jenner and also referenced his case against the member of Congress.
How is it actually real life to wake up and read about how Caitlyn Jenner is mocking Marjorie Taylor Greene for settling the federal case we at MeidasTouch filed and donating Marjorie’s money to groups that support common sense gun reform. I had to pinch myself.
— Ben Meiselas (@meiselasb) July 14, 2021
Many others were quick to condemn Greene for the comment, regardless of whether they agreed with Jenner’s politics or not.
Transphobia is never acceptable, especially from a member of Congress. After I take your office next year, I’ll be using my platform to preach love and acceptance rather than hate and division.
— Holly McCormack for Congress (@Holly_4Congress) July 12, 2021
Your younger, prettier, more famous version says otherwise: pic.twitter.com/yy6UwTM15H
— so nice we did it twice (@noeljalapeno) July 12, 2021
Reported to Twitter for hate against a protected category of people. https://t.co/u5O4gohR6E
— Peter Gleick 🇺🇸 (@PeterGleick) July 13, 2021
She’s an elected official. https://t.co/SNjtf6Rbsd
— Bakari Sellers (@Bakari_Sellers) July 13, 2021
absolute garbage human right here https://t.co/kaeTa4Nr7e
— John Iadarola (@johniadarola) July 12, 2021
Not sure who needs to hear this, but you can be trans and still be a conservative fighting for faith, family, and freedom. 👋 https://t.co/hLM9GLCKZg
— LogCabinRepublicans (@LogCabinGOP) July 12, 2021
This is hardly the first time that Greene has made offensive comments about the transgender community.
In February, Greene caused outrage after she posted a sign outside of Democrat Marie Newman’s office reading: “There are TWO genders. MALE & FEMALE. Trust the science!” It is well documented that Newman has a trans daughter. This came amid a row between the pair surrounding the Equality Act, which Greene had tried to block because she viewed it “as an attack on God’s creation.”
