It was a childish exchange within the House Office Building on Wednesday. Democratic representative Marie Newman placed a "trans pride" flag outside her office door, which is directly across from the office of Georgia Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, recently in the news for her confessedly regrettable QAnon conspiracy sympathies. Newman did this in response to Greene's opposition to the "Equality Act" (HR 5) and in support of Newman's own transgender "daughter." In response, Greene hung a sign that read, in part: "There are TWO genders." Now, for the record, I am not a fan of Greene's. I don't find this kind of activity mature, civil, or professional. It's needlessly unkind. It isn't productive and it doesn't help those who, like me, oppose the Equality Act. All of that having been said, however, both the context of Greene's conduct and the reactions to it are frankly far more alarming, offensive, and absurd than anything she did.