Facebook removes video of congresswoman hanging up a Transgender Pride flag, declaring it “hate speech”
tweet. She also claimed it “destroys women’s rights, religious rights, and rights of the unborn.”Taylor Greene also moved — both on Wednesday and Thursday — to adjourn the House session, as a procedural maneuver to block the bill from being introduced, debated, and passed.On Wednesday, in response to Taylor-Greene’s remarks, Newman, whose daughter is transgender, filmed and posted a video to Twitter and Facebook showing Newman hanging up a Trans Pride flag outside of her office, next to the state flag of Illinois.“Our neighbor, @RepMTG, tried to block the Equality Act because she believes prohibiting discrimination against trans Americans is ‘disgusting, immoral, and evil,'” Newman wrote with a winking emoji.