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Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is moving ahead with a bill that she says is vital to protecting minors.
Greene is planning to move forward will legislation to prevent “gender-affirming” procedures on minors despite enduring previous threats of violence and being ‘swatted’ twice at her home in Georgia last month. She plans a news conference for Tuesday where she’ll discuss the Protect Children’s Innocence Act, which she introduced last month.
Watch the press conference supporting my bill, the Protect Children’s Innocence Act, LIVE NOW. https://t.co/WbZdAT0JbH
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) September 20, 2022
The legislation currently has 34 co-sponsors, all of whom are Republicans. It “would make any individual who knowingly performs any ‘gender-affirming’ care on a minor guilty of a class C felony and face a prison sentence of up to 25 years and a $250,000 fine,” the Washington Times reported.
The outlet added:
The phrase “gender-affirming care” general means medical care that assumes a minor is transgender upon a child’s say-so regardless of his or her biological sex. Under the terms of Mrs. Greene’s bill, it includes performing any surgery to alter the body of individuals under the age of 18 to correspond to a sex other than their biological sex.
The Georgia Republican tweeted last week that her bill aims to protect “anyone under 18 from permanent bodily damage from the left’s gender change industry, stop sexualization of children, and stop dangerous promotion of gender change on children.”
She added that leftist gender change advocates and Democrats are “destroying two genders of male and female and promoting a sexualized ideology that gender is changeable targeting children and creating a medical industry of genital mutilation.” And they also “criminalize parents who try to protect their kids, & [promote] sexual perversion,” she said, the Times reported.
Taylor Greene was joined at her press conference by Chloe Cole, a teen girl who, believing she was a transgender male, decided at age 13 to engage in testosterone therapy and puberty blockers. When she turned 15, she underwent a double mastectomy.
But she de-transitioned at age 16 and has since become an outspoken advocate against gender-affirming procedures while blasting those who talked her into the process three years earlier.
“Extremely excited to be attending and speaking at Rep. MTG’s press conference for the Protect Children’s Innocence Act H.R. 8731,” Ms. Cole tweeted. “Let’s put a stop to the medical experimentation of our youth!”
Extremely excited to be attending and speaking at @RepMTG’s press conference for the Protect Children’s Innocence Act H.R. 8731. Let’s put a stop to the medical experimentation of our youth! pic.twitter.com/OF1iyXbLAN
— Chloe Cole ⭐️ (@ChoooCole) September 17, 2022
Greene posted about her ‘swatting’ incidents on social media, citing a local, Rome, Georgia, report that quoted police who investigated the incident.
“911 received a call from the suspect, claiming responsibility for the incident and explaining his/her motives.’ They explained they were upset about Ms. Greene’s stance on ‘trans-gender youth’s rights,’ and stated they were trying to ‘swat’ her,’” she said.
“911 received a call from the suspect, claiming responsibility for the incident and explaining his/her motives.”
“They explained they were upset about Ms. Greene's stance on 'trans-gender youth's rights,' and stated they were trying to 'swat' her.”https://t.co/XdDXeTLVj1
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) August 24, 2022
Northwest Georgia News noted:
According to a Rome Police Department report, police officers responded to a 911 call on Wednesday at 01:03 a.m. that led them to initially believe a man who had been shot multiple times was in the bathtub at Greene’s home. The caller also stated there was a woman inside the home and possibly children with her. When officers arrived, Greene assured them there was no issue at the home.
“After we cleared the call and went back in service, Rome-Floyd 911 received a call from the suspect, claiming responsibility for the incident and explaining his/her motives,” said the police report, according to the local outlet. “It was a computer generated voice. They explained they were upset about Ms. Greene’s stance on ‘trans-gender youth’s rights,’ and stated they were trying to ‘swat’ her.”
In addition, the police report said that the caller claimed to be linked to a website that authorities say supports cyberstalking. The caller also gave officers their user name on the site, Northwest Georgia News added.
“There have been a couple of other “swatting” calls of this sort recently, said Floyd County Police Department Assistant Chief Tom Ewing, but this was the first at Greene’s residence. The other calls came from overseas numbers, Ewing said, and those numbers have been masked or rerouted through other numbers, a process called spoofing,” said the local news report.
