Facebook apologizes for removing congresswoman's pro-trans post

Facebook issued an apology to a member of Congress for deleting a post of hers that was in favor of transgender rights.

The social media platform took down a video of Rep. Marie Newman, a Democrat from Illinois, in which she hung a trans pride flag outside of her office. The post, which the lawmaker says Facebook labeled as “hate speech,” was published in response to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (whose office is across the hall from hers) actively campaigning against the Equality Act, which would include “gender identity” and “sexual orientation” as classes protected under the Civil Rights Act.