Marjorie Taylor Greene Confronts 23andMe Founder With Pronouns Chart From Her Organization's Website

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At Tuesday's House Oversight Committee hearing, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) questioned Anne Wojcicki, Founder and Board Member of 23andMe, Inc.

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00:00The chair recognizes Ms. Green of Georgia for five minutes for questioning.

00:05Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

00:06Ms. Wojcicki, sorry, apologize.

00:10You co-founded 23andMe in 2006 and took the company public in 2021.

00:17Is that correct?

00:18That is correct.

00:19And this is all about DNA, which is what we would call science.

00:26Is that right?

00:26It was really about how individuals can learn about their own genetic information.

00:32But DNA and the study of it is science.

00:35Is that correct?

00:36It's about learning about their family, their ancestry, science, and their health risks.

00:40Okay, so it's science.

00:43Now, in 2001, you reposted Dr. Raven the Science Maven,

00:49who reposted my post of a sign that I kept outside of my office

00:54that said there are two genders, male and female, trust the science.

00:59And the attack on this, which you reposted, so you must have agreed with them,

01:04was as a scientist with a transgender parent, I need you to sit down.

01:08You don't know the science or the history.

01:10You trust the science.

01:12Science draws a difference between sex at birth and gender identity.

01:16The systematic incidentalization of gender is a product of colonization.

01:25What does colonization have to do with gender?

01:29I haven't seen that in a long time.

01:31I don't.

01:32You reposted it, though, so you must have known something about it.

01:35Also, 23andMe, the company that you led at the time,

01:41or that you're still there and you're trying to buy,

01:44opponents of trans rights use the phrase,

01:46trust the science to make false claims about sex and gender.

01:50We support what the science actually says,

01:52accepting and affirming trans people has a positive impact on their health.

01:57Trust the science.

01:58Support trans health.

01:59Which is really interesting because in DNA,

02:03it shows that there's only two sexes, two genders, male and female,

02:09and that should be something that you're very tied into that

02:14since you founded the company, co-founded the company,

02:18took it public, and you want to buy it again.

02:22So it's baffling that 23andMe, a company that specializes in DNA

02:28and people's very personal information

02:30and how God has designed human beings

02:34would support and continue to support the trans ideology

02:40that this is something that can be changed.

02:43Have you ever seen any DNA or know of DNA

02:46that a biological male can give birth to a baby?

02:51No.

02:52So this is something that we know cannot be changed.

02:55That's scientific.

02:57That's the design of our DNA.

03:01And I don't understand, and I think most people don't understand,

03:06why 23andMe would take such a hard-left political position

03:11supporting trans rights.

03:13And here's what's the really weird part about it is it says,

03:17this is one of the many reasons why we've been working to improve our products

03:20for trans and non-binary customers.

03:24I thought your product is helping people understand their DNA,

03:29linking themselves with family trees.

03:33So I can't comprehend what kind of product 23andMe

03:38could give to people who identify themselves in some other way.

03:44That doesn't make a lot of sense.

03:45Another thing that's hard to understand is, you know,

03:50the beauty of DNA is it's the beautiful design.

03:54It's God's design down to the finest detail,

03:58a granular level of how we're made,

04:01but it also helps people link with their family trees.

04:06Yet this was something, this is a letter that you put out

04:08after the SCOTUS ruling overturning Roe v. Wade,

04:14and you put out a letter very much against the ruling

04:18that the rights should go back to the states.

04:21And you clearly put your own personal belief in here

04:26on the 23andMe social media

04:29that you are very much for the killing of the unborn,

04:33the killing of babies,

04:34which completely would destroy what your company is all about.

04:40How can we study DNA?

04:41How can we study people's lineage

04:43if one of the very co-founders

04:46and who wants to own the company again

04:48supports the murder of the unborn,

04:51the murder of God's design,

04:53and the murder of God's creation,

04:56which we can link it to DNA.

04:59And Mr. Chairman, I'm running out of time,

05:02but I think that's 100% against the science,

05:05and I think it's 100% against God.

05:07I yield back.

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