Marjorie Taylor Greene, Unrepentant Bigot, Can’t Understand Why Her Twitter Account Was Restricted

Since being sworn in to Congress in January 2021, Marjorie Taylor Greene has been suspended and restricted by Twitter on numerous occasions for spreading misinformation about COVID-19, vaccines, and the 2020 election. On Tuesday, the Georgia representative was once again shut out of her official account, this time thanks to her rabid attacks on trans people.

While Greene has long been a hateful bigot and opponent of trans rights, she’s redoubled her efforts since the mass shooting at the Covenant School on Monday, choosing to focus not on the fact that the shooter was able to easily obtain firearms in a country that does extremely little to restrict them, but that the shooter reportedly identified as a trans man. In tweets and retweets on both her personal and congressional account, the GOP lawmaker blamed the shooting, which left three children and three adults dead, specifically on the fact that the assailant was trans.

But it was a graphic shared on Tuesday, which she repeatedly posted, with a caption claiming that “Antifa is organizing a Trans Day of Vengeance” in DC next month, that got her official account temporarily restricted. Ella Irwin, the site’s head of trust and safety, explained that Twitter performed an automatic “sweep“ of the platform and removed over 5,000 tweets and retweets of the image. She added, “We do not support tweets that incite violence irrespective of who posts them. ‘Vengeance’ does not imply peaceful protest. Organizing or support for peaceful protests is ok.”

Not surprisingly, Greene cannot comprehend why the company would do this.

Prior to Monday’s shooting, Greene had, among other things, hung an anti-trans poster across from the office of a colleague whose child is trans; cosponsored a bill to ban US embassies from flying Pride flags; targeted a trans member of the Biden administration; and introduced a bill that would criminalize providing transgender medical care to minors. Just this week, in an official congressional hearing, she said she found it “devastating” to hear that there has been an increase in children identifying as trans.