Marjorie Taylor Greene tried to talk to trans kids. She failed miserably.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is now trying to speak directly to trans kids and talk them out of transitioning. It’s not going well.

“If you’re under 18 and people are telling you to cut off your breast or have a surgery that turns your penis inside out to make a ‘vagina’ you’re a victim of child abuse,” Greene tweeted. Gender-affirming genital surgery is not performed on minors and top surgery is only performed on minors in rare circumstances and is much rarer than breast augmentation surgery among minors.

“Get away from those people and find safe people who tell you that you’re already perfect,” she continued. “Grow up first.”

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Conservatives like Greene have been trying to reframe their desire for transgender kids to change into cisgender kids as “they’re already perfect,” even though Greene and others like her are asking them to change their gender identities. Opponents of transgender rights often support conversion therapy for trans people, which inculcates the false notion that trans people are not “already perfect.”

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People reacted negatively to Greene’s statement.

"Grow up first."

You first.

— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) November 28, 2022

If you’re under 18 & you’re taking your medical advice from a QAnon conspiracy theorist who chases school shooting survivors & thinks that there are lasers in space controlled by Jewish people to start forest fires, get away from that person and seek someone who’s sane instead.

— Jo