The House of Representatives' Wikipedia account was recently blocked after an anonymous user from the house published transphobic statements regarding transgendered people including "Orange Is the New Black" actor Laverne Cox.

The New York Daily News reports that this makes the third ban this summer that the House of Representatives has received from Wikipedia. The ban will last for one month.

According to The NY Daily News, more than 30 edits made to Wikipedia pages regarding transgendered people were linked to Congress' IP addresses.

The anonymous Congress user edited Laverne Cox's Wikipedia page in addition to other transgender related Wikipedia pages. The user changed Cox's bio information to read that Cox -- who is a transgendered woman -- was "a man pretending to be a woman" on "Orange is the New Black."

The anonymous user also edited Wikipedia's transphobic "tranny" pages, The Hill reports.

Wikipedia users quickly slammed the anonymous user's edit and urged Wikipedia to take action.

"It's just another silly ruse by the puerile male intern/staffer desperate to become the House's very own jester," wrote user John Valeron. "He is quite simply a criminal, illegally misusing US Govt property and Internet service. He should be fired and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."

Another user wrote, "I have no problem with Congressional staffers editing Wikipedia. I have a problem only with YOU vandalizing Wikipedia."

In response to the Wikipedia user backlash, the anonymous user issued a statement under the Congress IP address, The Hill reports.

"There's nothing illegal about editing Wikipedia to promote official business that has been explicitly authourized [sic] by the Representative," the anonymous user wrote.

Although anonymous Congress users have been banned from making edits to Wikipedia, identified Congress users that sign in to their account are still allowed to make revisions.

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