Screenshot of the video “MTG” by Forgiato Blow – Photo: YouTube.
For a woman to be a successful politician, she must not know what a gun is, but know how to fire one; must glow in the dark, but in a totally nonradioactive way; and, simply put, must be Beyoncé — this we know from a popular 2019New Yorker article.
Two election cycles in the House of Representatives since that piece was published, U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, has shown the nation another rite of passage for female officeholders: Star in a rap music video.
“I never thought I’d be featured in a rap video but then again I never thought the left would be grooming our children!” wrote Greene in a July 16 Instagram post.
The Republican congresswoman and self-proclaimed “Christian nationalist” from Georgia, who previously called for the end of Pride Month, appears in the video for rapper Forgiato Blow’s song “MTG,” which is laden with anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and references to right-wing conspiracy theories.
The video begins with an inflammatory quote from Greene’s 60 Minutes interview in April: “Even Joe Biden the President himself supports children being sexualized and having transgender surgeries. Sexualizing children is what pedophiles do to children.”
In the video, rapper Forgiato Blow, the self-crowned “Mayor of MAGAville,” while dropping rhymes and spouting blatant falsehoods about the 2020 presidential election, crowns Greene, who sits in a gold-winged throne and wears sunglasses at night, “MAGA’s MVP.”
“Most rap videos exploit women, glorify drugs and violence, but Forgiato Blow’s new video is about calling out the left’s grooming agenda and protecting our children from genital mutilation,” Greene said in a statement. “It was a blast filming this video.”
“I’m proud of Forgiato Blow’s support of my Protect Children’s Innocence Act,” she added, referring to a bill she sponsored to prohibit trans and gender-expansive children from accessing gender-affirming care. The bill would prosecute and sentence doctors found guilty of prescribing such treatments to up to 25 years in prison, and would ban medical schools from teaching about gender-affirming treatments — thereby ensuring that transgender people, including trans adults, will be unable to receive transition-related treatments in the future.
While Greene, promoting the song, tweeted, “Protecting our children has to be our number one priority,” it remains unclear how this legislation would accomplish that goal, given that gender-affirming care is supported by all major medical organizations and linked to dramatic reductions in depression and suicide attempts during adolescence and beyond.
Protecting our children has to be our number one priority.
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) July 16, 2023
Blow’s past songs, many shared by Greene on social media, have mocked the toll of the AIDS epidemic (“fake news already spreading disease, like two queers with HIV”) and opposed companies like Bud Light and Target for their collaborations with LGBTQ content creators and designers.
Greene has a colorful history of attacking the queer community, including calling LGBTQ-inclusive school curricula “child abuse,” and claiming that people who support allowing same-sex couples to wed “don’t love God.”
A federal appeals court has allowed Tennessee authorities to begin prosecuting business owners who host drag performances at their venues.
On Thursday, July 18, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, dismissed a lawsuit challenging Tennessee's "Adult Entertainment Act" (AEA), which prohibits drag in public spaces and any venue where minors might be present.
Under the law, which categorizes "male or female impersonators" as a form of adult cabaret similar to shows featuring strippers or topless performers, drag queens who violate the law can be charged with a misdemeanor, or a felony for repeat offenses, and owners of venues who allow them to perform can be fined.
Vice President and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris will appear in a cameo on the finale of season 9 of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars tonight, Friday, July 26.
The episode will start with Harris, surrounded by judges and guest stars from the finale, urging viewers to vote in November's election.
Also featured in the short public service announcement are longtime Drag Race judge Michelle Visage, acclaimed choreographer Jamal Sims, singer Lance Bass, comedienne Leslie Jones, and actor Cheyenne Jackson.
The message was filmed when Harris was still the presumptive vice presidential nominee, and before incumbent President Joe Biden announced he would not seek re-election.
Billionaire Elon Musk said his estranged transgender daughter was figuratively "killed" after she received gender-affirming care, prompting him to adopt gender-skeptic and anti-transgender views.
The CEO of Tesla and Space X, and owner of X, was speaking with psychologist and conservative commentator Jordan Peterson as part of a podcast interview.
Peterson asserted that psychiatrists encouraging minors to transition were "contemptible cowards," comparing them to "the Nazis."
Musk agreed, saying that California Gov. Gavin Newsom's stance on transgender issues, including his decision to sign a bill into law preventing school officials from "outing" trans youth to their parents, was part of the reason he was relocating his company headquarters from California to Texas.
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