Congresswoman Puts Anti-Trans Activist on the Spot: 'Do You Really Believe That Garbage?'

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Congresswoman Puts Anti-Trans Activist on the Spot: 'Do You Really Believe That Garbage?'
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'Every single hearing that I am in...witnesses find a way to bring in trans children into whatever conversation we’re trying to have,' Rep. Becca Balint said.

, a corporate strategy intended to lessen the negative effects of business. But of course, conservative activists want to make it part of the culture war, which is exactly what Mandy Gunasekara, director of the Independent Women’s Forum’s Center on Energy and Conservation, testified to at the hearing,

that said, “ESG is a tool to advance the Left’s broader cultural agenda” like “efforts to promote ‘gender transitions’ for children.” Remember, this is a“One of the things that you said in [the information] you provided is that the dangers of ESG include promoting gender transitions in children,” she said. “And I want to know, do you really believe that garbage?”“So you believe that investing strategies are actually...

She continued, emphasizing how cruel and ridiculous Republicans’ ubiquitous attacks on trans kids have become: “It feels like every single hearing that I am in, whether it is in Oversight or whether it is in Budget or whether it is in a subcommittee, the witnesses find a way to bring in trans children into whatever conversation we’re trying to have here.”Balint is correct. Trans people—adults and children, but especially minors—are being used as a bogeyman by conservative activists.

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