A white Indiana county councilman is remaining defiant against calls to step down after publishing a Facebook post that announced his identity as a lesbian Indian woman.
Republican Delaware County Councilman Ryan Webb ignited local outrage at a public council meeting last week after he declared himself an American Indian woman with a Facebook post three weeks ago.
“It is with great relief that I announce to everyone that I identify as a woman and not just any woman but as a woman of color as well,” Webb wrote. “I guess this would make me gay/lesbian as well, since I am attracted to women.”
Residents lined up at the county council’s hearing on Tuesday to demand Webb resign.
“I feel that he basically made a hate speech in this post,” said one constituent named Mary Stilts in the eastern Indiana city of Muncie. “He has created some hate and discord and divide with the transgender population here.”
Indiana councilma’am Ryan Webb flips the script and identifies as a ‘lesbian woman of color’ and the left predictably flip out 👀 pic.twitter.com/wL1yOxHJAX
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) May 1, 2023
Another resident named Charlies Jamison, a man who claims to be a woman, took the podium to accuse Webb of making an “insult” to “women, persons of color, and the LGBTQ community all in one statement.”
“His comments are disgraceful,” Jamison said. “They fall below our expectations of an elected official whose job it is to represent all his constituents.”
