On transgender issue, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene allies with state senator-elect Colton Moore

Legislation banning gender-affirming surgery for minors was promised this week by Colton Moore, Georgia state senator-elect for Northwest Georgia, matching a bill from U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Rome.

"This is about protecting kids, and I think for the Republican Party, if we can do anything, this one is critical to do," Greene said of the Protect Children's Innocence Act, a bill she submitted in August.

Speaking at the monthly meeting of the Walker County Republican Party on Tuesday night in Chickamauga, both elected officials spoke to a crowd of nearly 100 on a wide range of local and national issues, including the opioid crisis, inflation and the war in Ukraine.