Marjorie Taylor Greene booed as she speaks out against trans rights at Supreme Court
The IndependentSign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was loudly booed while slamming health care for trans children outside the Supreme Court. Greene insisted that “God created male and female in his image, he created us.” She was booed by protesters attending the “Freedom to Be Ourselves” rally backing trans rights outside the court. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks outside the U.S. Supreme Court during a rally as the high court hears arguments in a case on transgender health rights this week in Washington, D.C. She argued that children are taking pills to ‘destroy their bodies’ The Republicans are targeting a group of people making up just 1.6 percent of U.S. adults, according to the Pew Research Center. Tennessee Solicitor General Matthew Rice said that there “has to be a medical purpose for these drugs.” He went on to say that the plaintiffs had been “conflating different medical purposes.” Liberal Justice Elena Kagan noted that the case was “imbued with sex” before going on to say, “You might have reasons for thinking that it’s an appropriate regulation, and those reasons should be tested and respect given to them, but it’s a dodge to say that this is not based on sex it’s based on medical purpose when the medical purpose is utterly and entirely about sex.”