'Pro-LGBT' Georgia GOP Candidate Has Anti-Trans Twitter History

With "allies" like this, who needs enemies?

Transphobic tweets have been unearthed from a Republican candidate in the Georgia House race who purports herself to be a great LGBT ally. Project Q reports.

In an October 2016 interview with Georgia Voice, Megan Hanson, the Republican candidate for District 80's seat in the Georgia House slammed the state's vetoed Religious Freedom bill HB 757 and touted herself as an LGBT ally.

"I'm proud to be a Republican who supports LGBT issues," Hanson said. "I feel that I could become one of the LGBT community's greatest allies, given that our state government is controlled by Republicans. Bills like (HB 757) are written behind closed doors, and if you're not in the room then you don't have a say in how it's written. You can try and change the bill once it's made public, but it's a lot more effective to change the bill before it's public. I feel like I can be the voice for the LGBT community in those rooms."

And yet, for as much as Hanson likes to bill herself as an LGBT ally, her Twitter history shows her to be anything but a friend to the "T."

A March 2011 tweet had Hanson using the derogatory term "tranny"

"The Tranny" on Harry's Law's name is A-man-da. Are you serious right now?" Hanson tweeted.

Two years later in 2013, in response to a story published by the Atlanta Journal Constitution regarding two transgender teens who found each other after transitioning to the opposite sex, Hanson tweeted:

"Only in the @ajc is this news."

Hanson's challenger in the race is Democrat Taylor Bennett who has been endorsed by LGBT groups like Georgia Equality and Georgia Stonewall Democrats.