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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Republican storms out of hearing after being called out for misgendering trans congresswoman: ‘You are out of order’

Republican Rep. Keith Self abruptly adjourned a House committee hearing after a Democratic congressman called him out for deliberately misgendering Rep. Sarah McBride, the first transgender member of Congress.

Tuesday's House Foreign Relations subcommittee hearing is the latest anti-trans attack from Republican lawmakers in the wake of Donald Trump’s inauguration and his streak of actions targeting transgender Americans, including an order that flatly denies the existence of trans, nonbinary and intersex people.

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