AOC is slamming Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., for the GOP lawmaker’s sexist attack on people who identify as transgender.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., called out MTG late Tuesday for defining a woman as “the weaker sex” and “our husband’s wife.”
Greene pushed the right-wing talking point that the only person who can be considered a woman is one who was defined as a female at birth.
“I’m going to tell you right now what is a woman… We came from Adam’s rib,” Greene said. “We are the weaker sex, but we are our husband’s wife.”
Hitting back hard, AOC accused the GOP of “incit(ing) epic meltdowns and moral panics” over the issue of respecting the rights of people who identify as transgender.
She said Greene confirmed what should have been obvious: that it’s part and parcel of a right-wing war on women.
“It threatens the GOP’s own definition of a woman as ‘weak, male property,’” AOC tweeted.
The far right-wing of the Republican Party has targeted people who identify as transgender in sports and other fields as a wedge issue to attack Democrats and advocates for LGBTQ rights.
Florida recently enacted its “Don’t Say Gay” bill that bars educators from discussing whatever the state might deem non-” age-appropriate” classroom discussions of sexuality and gender identity.
AOC and other champions of trans rights counter by insisting that people should simply accept that not everyone fits into traditional gender definitions.
“Non-binary and trans people menstruate,” AOC declared.
