Marjorie Taylor Greene tells followers monkeypox is an STI that gay men are giving to kids

Her followers took her words to mean that gay men are giving kids monkeypox through sexual abuse. That’s not happening.

Conservatives are using childhood cases of monkeypox to imply that gay and bisexual men are molesting children.

For the past year, conservatives have been calling LGBTQ people “groomers,” implying that being queer makes an adult a threat to minors. Now, with this year’s monkeypox outbreak, they’re upping the ante.

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“If Monkeypox is a sexually transmitted disease, why are kids getting it?” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) asked on Twitter this weekend, showing a video of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director Rochelle Walensky, where she said that two cases of childhood monkeypox in California could be “traced back to individuals who come from the men who have sex with men community.”

Rightwing activist Ian Miles Cheong shared a Daily Mail story about the same childhood monkeypox cases and said, “Are we allowed to ask any questions?”

Monkeypox is not a sexually transmitted infection. The disease is spread through…

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