Here Are Tennessee Democrat Candidate Aftyn Behn’s Most Unhinged Tirades…So Far

Democratic Tennessee congressional candidate Aftyn Behn has entered the spotlight over her dramatic behavior, her far-left agenda and her admitted hatred for the state she hopes to represent.

Behn is running to become the next representative for Tennessee’s 7th district in a special election on Tuesday, which is being held due to former Republican Tennessee Rep. Mark Green’s resignation. Both new and resurfaced footage has revealed that Behn has shown deep disdain for her potential constituents, condemned women for being wives and mothers and even got dragged out of a sitting governor’s office for rushing in without permission.

In April 2019, Behn and Enough is Enough-Tennessee, an activist group she was part of, engaged in a sit-in outside of Republican Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee’s office and demanded to speak with him about supporting the resignation of then-Republican Tennessee state Rep. David Byrd, who faced sexual misconduct allegations. Footage showed Behn rushing into Lee’s office and immediately being dragged out by officers while she screamed and sobbed.

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Behn stated that she hates everything about Nashville, which is partially located in the 7th district that she hopes to represent. She complained about the country music, the bachelorettes, the pedal taverns and everything else that makes Nashville distinct from other parts of the U.S.

“I hate the city, I hate the bachelorettes, I hate the pedal taverns, I hate country music, I hate all of the things that make Nashville apparently an ‘it’ city to the rest of the country. But I hate it,” Behn said on the “Year old GRITS” podcast in February 2020.

The far-left candidate supports taxpayer funded surgeries and procedures for trans-identifying kids. In June, she condemned the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold Tennessee’s ban on trans surgeries for minors, claiming in a statement that the ruling was “pushing us farther into a dangerous future where politics — rather than science— dictates the lives of our most vulnerable.”

During the “Year old GRITS” episode in 2020, Behn also claimed that men can give birth.

“I think we have as birthers… men and women who can give birth… we can maybe leverage that as collective bargaining which is the basis of this book that I’ve just started reading called ‘Birth Strike,’” Behn said.

Behn accused women who get married and have children of engaging in “deeply patriarchal structures.” She said that she dreams of standing up in a cafeteria full of women and saying, ‘I don’t want children! I want power!”

“My therapist always asks me to transcribe my dreams when they happen. And the recurring dream I’ve had is standing up in a Cafeteria full of women, I don’t know why we were there, and saying ‘I don’t want children. I want power!’ And just screaming it at the top of my lungs. And for someone who grew up with my mother telling me, ‘never have kids because you’ll have to give up a lot.’ You’ll have to sacrifice professionally is what she’s saying and where I am now with seeing the consequences and ramifications of women having kids in the political field and what they’re able to achieve … but also the deeply patriarchal structures that these women are involved with because they’ve chosen marriage and they’ve chosen to raise children.”

In another interview, Behn said that sororities at southern colleges are “a staple of white supremacy.”

The Tennessee Democrat complained during the “Red State Blue Moon” podcast in June 2024 that she is “deeply uncomfortable” by every state legislative session in the Tennessee House opening up with a prayer.

In 2020, Behn wrote in now-deleted X posts that the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department should be dissolved, that defunding the police should be a requirement for reopening schools and suggested that burning down police stations is justified. She refused to walk back these comments during an interview on MS NOW Sunday.

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