{"id":506008,"date":"2017-04-10T15:23:43","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T15:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glaad.logalt.net\/tap\/mark-green\/"},"modified":"2023-04-21T22:29:47","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T22:29:47","slug":"mark-green","status":"publish","type":"gap","link":"https:\/\/glaad.org\/gap\/mark-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2014Withdrew his nomination by President Trump for Secretary of the Army following opposition regarding<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/05\/05\/politics\/mark-green-army-secretary-withdrawal\/index.html\"> bigoted comments about transgender people<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/mark-green-transgender-evil_us_58f8c4cce4b0cb086d7eb012?l1f&amp;ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009\">Called<\/a> the transgender community an \u201cevil\u201d that must be \u201ccrushed,\u201d and compared LGBTQ Americans to ISIS.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/05\/04\/politics\/kfile-mark-green-facebook-posts\/\">Wrote<\/a> that then-President Obama \u201csupports transvestites in uniform\u201d in a June 2013 Facebook post.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/mark-green-transgender_us_58e67d38e4b0773c0d3ef15e\">Insists<\/a> that being \u201ctransgender is a disease.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrc.org\/blog\/tennessee-senate-committee-advances-anti-lgbtq-proposal\">Lead sponsor<\/a> of a Tennessee state bill that would allow local companies to discriminate against LGBTQ people without any repercussion from local government.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/legiscan.com\/TN\/bill\/SB0771\/2017\">Sponsor of<\/a> an anti-trans Tennessee state bill requiring students to use restrooms in accordance with their birth certificates.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Green<a href=\"https:\/\/legiscan.com\/TN\/rollcall\/SB1556\/id\/500051\"> backed<\/a> Tennessee state bill that allows 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