By now we should all be used to Greene’s transphobic antics. But this latest incident is an escalation in rhetoric, Katelyn Burns writes.
against disparaging remarks Greene made about about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, D-N.Y., but few came to the defense of Levine when she was the target of Greene's Twitter vitriol.
It’s a worrying statement by omission that illustrates the precarious position trans people in the U.S. now find themselves in. We have one party on the all-out attack against us, the other party too afraid to speak up for us in an election year.Greene’s comments are a break in decorum that we should all recognize as out of line. But we won’t, because they were directed at a trans person. This was always the inevitable result of turning the existence of trans people into a political debate.
But when someone is openly questioning what someone’s genitals are shaped like, should we really consider that to be in bounds for respectful debate? Should we be allowed to poll members of congress on whether they’ve been circumcised now, as a matter of public interest? No, that would quite obviously be ridiculous.
Thus far, and unsurprisingly, McCarthy has declined to speak out against Greene’s increasingly unhinged rhetoric about trans people. It’s obvious that much of the GOP establishment sees Greene as their attack dog, always willing to throw transphobic bits of red meat at the party’s obsessed base.
The current situation for trans people in the U.S. is quite grim, driven in large part by increasingly restrictive actions taken by state-level Republican officials. Looking around the political landscape, it’s easy to see who’s driving the bus on all of this. Republicans are introducing
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