Part of me is absolutely sick, as in sickened from long exposure to something toxic, by the rhetoric around trans people. My son is not a pervert or a deviant or a predator or delusional or mentally ill. He's just a guy. He happens to be a great guy, at that, who is kind, creative, funny, smart, and has just bucketloads of talent to contribute to our world. Why his gender identity is anyone's business, much less an entire political platform for wanna be Nazi's and Klansmen is utterly beyond me. It would never occur to me to attack anyone the way my son has been attacked... verbally, physically, and worse.
Anyone who has an issue speaking out about this is a coward and, I believe, lowkey transphobic themselves, so I am very guarded with how I connect with other 'liberals' until I know where they stand.
There are certain inalienable rights that our Founders articulated in the Declaration: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. The defense here isn't me explaining why people should have body autonomy and the right to live their lives as they see fit without harassment from society; the question is, why do you, and other MAGA folx, focus so tightly on controlling other people that you are willing to burn down our democracy and replace it with a fascistic authoritarian state in which NONE of us will be free.
Further, if you are queer, why in the world would you trade rights of freedom for Trans people to be a bootlicker for extremist views, especially when they are just itching to overturn Obergefell and Lawrence and return gay men to the days of no marriage rights and illegal sex?
We all stand together or we will all burn on the pyre of repeated history.
Cheering on every word, Lawrence!
Part of me is absolutely sick, as in sickened from long exposure to something toxic, by the rhetoric around trans people. My son is not a pervert or a deviant or a predator or delusional or mentally ill. He's just a guy. He happens to be a great guy, at that, who is kind, creative, funny, smart, and has just bucketloads of talent to contribute to our world. Why his gender identity is anyone's business, much less an entire political platform for wanna be Nazi's and Klansmen is utterly beyond me. It would never occur to me to attack anyone the way my son has been attacked... verbally, physically, and worse.
Anyone who has an issue speaking out about this is a coward and, I believe, lowkey transphobic themselves, so I am very guarded with how I connect with other 'liberals' until I know where they stand.
Your clarity, your refusal to hedge, and your insistence on cutting through the smokescreen of bad-faith politics all hit hard.
I could feel the frustration and the urgency in every line, and honestly, we need more of this. Thank you for sharing Lawrence
Thank you, Mkwana, for reading and for sharing what resonated with you. I'm grateful for your words!
you are welcome. There's a personal question I wanted to ask, I just texted you inbox.
There are certain inalienable rights that our Founders articulated in the Declaration: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. The defense here isn't me explaining why people should have body autonomy and the right to live their lives as they see fit without harassment from society; the question is, why do you, and other MAGA folx, focus so tightly on controlling other people that you are willing to burn down our democracy and replace it with a fascistic authoritarian state in which NONE of us will be free.
Further, if you are queer, why in the world would you trade rights of freedom for Trans people to be a bootlicker for extremist views, especially when they are just itching to overturn Obergefell and Lawrence and return gay men to the days of no marriage rights and illegal sex?
We all stand together or we will all burn on the pyre of repeated history.