I would suggest that describing the urge among minority groups to maintain their language, culture and customs, rather than being melted in the pot, as "cultural homicide" does reflect a "fear of minorities."
It's not all past. People bring their cultures with them when they come to the U.S. and those cultures enrich this country and they linger. Many immigrants, from all continents (except Antarctica), have done this.
You are spot on and I'm upset they let a small minded community call the shots. Perhaps Crandall Library should host Scarlet Sagamore. I do want to add to my comment that i think rehashing the tragedy in Corinth was unnecessary and a little tacky. A family, (especially the children) shouldn't have to read this and relive with your own opinions, because I feel they have tried to move forward, but hey it's an editorial.
Again I thank you for being an ally to this community and bringing attention to the fact they literally are trying to erase this community.
I listened to remarks made at a library meeting...horrifically ignorant doesn't begin to cover it.
What a sad world we are in that is trying to eradicate human beings.
Please keep writing about this!
I'm not sure it's just a distraction....several states have passed anti trans legislation and one state, has now passed laws stripping adult transgender from receiving care.
I don't begin to understand this hate. But it is heartbreaking and born out of ignorance.
Ashamed of some of America.
Florida could drop off into the ocean and float away and I'd be ecstatic.
People need to wake up because it could be you that's targeted next.
The hypocritical behavior of the Republican party is stunningly blatant these days. I remember my father (a staunch Republican) dressing in my mother's negligee and bra (with apples in the cups no less!) and a mask for Halloween. I still have the photo. I'm sure he is rolling in his grave to think I'm discussing that in our world today but I'm hoping he is more enlightened now that he is gone. What a wonderful world we would have if everyone just loved and gave. Loved everyone for who they were and gave to others to keep them safe from harm. As the book "Ishmael" states, there are givers and takers and sadly we are faced with more takers these days.
Thanks for the info, I will be congratulating the library on their courage. I wonder if you wrote this article just to antagonize.
Drag is vulgar adult, pornification of women, entertainment. If I thought about it more, I might even call it misogynistic. It ought to be outlawed from children's spaces. I raised three sons. I brought them to story time at the library all the time. I would never have exposed them to the vulgar indoctrination (exposure) of drags. Yes, drags tweak in children's spaces. Drags themselves say they do not belong in children's spaces.
There is no equivalency between cross dressing (as strange as it is) and the vulgarity of drag. Same with transgenderism. Not supporting it does not equal hate or transphobia as liberals like to parrot. It is not evil to believe the science. We are NOT obsessed with trans. Trans seek visibility - think Trans Visibility Day. They are forcing themselves on us.
Although, I would say we are a lot more concerned about what is happening to children than the extreme left. At this point, no one knows if this is a social contagion or not - 80% of gender confusion is coming from girls. I don't understand how those who like to bash conservative thought aren't more concerned about that.
De-transitioners are on the rise and are speaking out.
I have been to a couple of drag brunches and, at least the ones I've been to, were not at all the way you characterized them.
Moving to your other concern, about transgender people; I think the fact that you have issues with trans visibility and consider it "forcing themselves on you" seems to say you think they should not be visible in the public sphere, which more or less does say they should not exist.
I hope that's not what you meant to say. That kind of thinking makes them a target of violence and it is exactly the bigotry that the religious right extremists has been pushing out to divide us all and fire up their base
I've read a few books about the religious right extremists god politics. I strongly disapprove of it. I've taken a lot of crap for it.
You project onto me something that is not true. Through my involvement in the community, I interact with trans often. When I do I am not thinking oh! she/he is trans. I couldn't care less.
What you say makes trans a target does not compute with me. That is not what makes them a target. They make themselves a target. Although lefties charge conservatives with not living and let live. Trans ought to just live and let live. Instead they make a spectacle of themselves. Force us to use their language. Are callously dismissive of women. I personally reject using pronouns. I'll call them any name they want. What I don't get is why they need to trample all over women - like breast feeders, people who pump, normalizing menopause, bleeders, and on and on and on. If a man said he was trans - just trans - and used a female name I'd have no problem at all with that. Not offensive at all. Do you really think that children are not at risk here? I personally think that every child who says they want to transition needs an impartial third party, like a guardian ad litem. I heard mothers gloat about their children being trans. It made me sick.
Trans brought the opposition to transgenderism onto themselves. Then they whine, we are being abused. It's women who are being abuse.
I've never been to anything drag. I know about drag from YouTube drags who look absolutely vulgar. They say that they shouldn't be in children's spaces.
Well, thank you for clarifying, I'm glad you did not mean how it came across to me. I agree with you and think transgender people are entitled to full participation in public life. I also think it is helpful when conservatives like you take issue with the religious right on this, it is important people understand they don't speak for all conservatives.
OMG. I can't believe you project conservatism on me just because I don't support transgender ideology. Come on now, don't you think that's narrow-minded?
I take issue with almost everything on the religious right -- almost everything. I know they are sincerely troubled about trans surgery for young people. You can't listen to de-transistors and not be. I'm not exactly a recovering lib but, I take issue with a lot of BS too.
Sorry, I just assumed you identified as a conservative from your comment about how "...liberals like to parrot" and how "we are more concerned about children than the extreme left". You are 100% correct it is very narrowminded to assume you are conservative. I suspect all of us, regardless of politics, see ourselves as moderates.
I wonder what your thoughts are about military weaponry within the general public? They harm children of all sexual orientations. Human rights are protective of humans, conservatism and extremists are fearful of "other" humans and ultimately divisive and destructive. Confusion? There are adults in your midst who have hidden the truth about their sexuality all or most of their lives. They were fearful of shaming, persecution, and even murder or suicide. Think about that.
Quick question, Sophia - what is the difference between being anti-minority and being anti-gay? Are they not both about prejudice? Why do you think it acceptable to accept one, but not the other? And please provide examples of how "we are a lot more concerned about what is happening to children than the extreme left. " Which "side" is more concerned about gun-violence, the "left" or the "right"?
Drag queens are cross-dressers. They are also performers, who seek to entertain through over-the-top portrayals of the other sex. There usually is an over-the-top aspect in cross-dressing. Otherwise, why do it?
I think the question should be, "Is the content positive for children?" Clowns can do a show with content that isn't right for kids, so can anyone. A large amount of the stuff on TV and streaming and elsewhere online isn't good for kids. I think it's legitimate, too, to consider the character of the performer. Was "America's Dad" Bill Cosby good for kids? (I'm veering off subject.)
What looks like it could be a positive here - is not. We are not going to agree about this.
Drags reading to kids is NEVER a positive. It's all about indoctrination that leads to mocking women and accepting vulgarity. For some vulgarity is acceptable, not for me.
Drag is NEVER good for women either. Children should not be learning how to mock women.
There is very little on the tube that is good for anyone.
I wouldn’t call the postponement bravery of the library board. More like they were terrified after being harassed nonstop via library phone, online, in person and at their homes. Yes. Folks hunted down their home phone numbers and wouldn’t leave them alone. People “worried about what their kids are exposed to” exposed them to the worst side of humanity last week.
I saw Tootsie on Weds. It was a lot of fun. Also saw Thirsty Burlington do Cher at the Wood Theater last night - which was awesome - Ms Sagamore did the opening number to a Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5. She was fun & entertaining- absolutely nothing sexual about her persona. Those against these things don’t even know the difference between a drag queen and a trans person. Drag queens are wonderful entertainers - even for kids - because they are over-the-top personalities. It’s beyond sad that conservatives refuse to understand what it is they’re canceling & legislating against - but then again that’s the MO for them (see: abortion) all while claiming to be the party of personal rights. Such liars.
“…they went after the school boards, and when they went after the library boards the end was near…” Death of Democracy in America, 2042. University of Gilead Press
Did anyone think it was weird that the Dalia Lama asked a 12-year-old boy to suck his tongue last week? I was completely taken aback by the silence and the defense of what he did. It took me back to the story that the Boston Globe Spotlight department who broke a 2-year investigation of the Archdiocese of Boston. the story broke January 6th 2001. I was working at Catholic Charities in Glens Falls at the time. You may be wondering why I bring this up and how does it have anything to do with Drag Queen story hour at the Lake Luzerne Library. Let me get back to what it was like to be working at Catholic Charities at the time the Boston story broke of over 400 priests sexually abusing children over 40 years and how they got away with it. Back in those days large newspapers actually had an investigation unit that was interested in the truth no matter who it may hurt. Can you imagine how hard it was for them since Boston had a huge Catholic presence. If anyone was paying attention a few weeks ago the Albany Diocese just declared bankruptcy on March 31st due to all the lawsuits that they have had to pay out over the last 20 years for their priests who sexually abused children in our area. The week the Boston Globe story broke grown men showed up at our office on Broad St telling us they were abused. I spent 8 years as a DV consultant from 1996-2004 inside Warren and Washington County CPS and my job was to educate them in DV and they educated me with child abuse and child sex abuse. After you have heard the stories from children, and I can never unhear those grafic details, you may understand that we are going into the wrong direction of how much today that children are being sexualized. I saw how a pedophile could ruin a child's life and I saw and heard parents who did not believe their children when they came to them about being abused. I remember during the priest investigations folks would tell me how horrible it was but in the same breath they would say..my priest would never do that. I am not implying that drag queens are pedophiles..when I was trained, I was told the pedophiles usually work in fields where there are near children as much as they can be. I was shocked at a training by the FBI that a large number of pediatricians were pedophiles. We can think about daycares, teachers, coaches, scout leaders and well as others. I think that some fears of parents are that their job is to protect their children..like all those parents that did not protect their children and did not believe them when they spoke to them. We need to go back to good touch bad touch and that anyone can abuse their child. Maybe, the drag queen could read those books and tell children that no one has the right to make them feel uncomfortable. I love a good drag queen show and I most likely would not have taken my young children with me. I did go with my 40-year-old daughter at the time. I just want us to be aware that there are some adults that have bad intentions with young children, and we never can lose sight of that. That does not make us anti trans, homophobic, as I believe everyone wants their own children to be safe. One of the things, I most admire about Will Dolittle is he is contrarian. I remember at a dinner at my house in the late 90's with him and his wife Bella and the lively argument at the dinner table that he believed victims of rape should have their name in the paper. I thought Bella who also worked at Domestic Violence with me, was going to make him walk home. I never quite knew if he really thought that or just being contrarian made lively dinner table talk. Again, I think in all honesty, we need to be able to have conversations that do not shut down people's fears. If we are able to express those fears, then that helps us all to understand how some people may have their own reasons for what they do.
Hi Patty! I would say, people should be free to choose to go to drag shows or not, but you have no choice when the shows are run out of town. I do remember that dinner but not that comment, although I'm sure your memory is accurate. I like to think I'm less inclined to seek out confrontation and conflict now that I'm older and ... more understanding, maybe? More thoughtful? More tired? It does sound as if, at a dinner with domestic violence counselors, I was looking for the most inflammatory thing to say that I could find a way to defend. I have a little less faith in principles now, especially when abiding by the principle -- such as printing whatever information you have and are allowed to publish, such as the names of rape victims (some states have since passed laws against this, I believe), may accomplish something in the long term, such as lessening the stigma of rape, but will definitely hurt certain people in the immediate term.
I think here, as with school boards and parents' rights and "freedom," a small vocal sometimes threatening and violent minority manage to silence people who just want the rights of all people to be who they are, not doing harm but not being part of a group that insists that their rights--patriarchal, christian, white --are the only rights. Why should librarians, teachers, election workers, peaceful protesters, trans, gays...feel attacked...And how can we not relinquish our freedom--our inclusive and diverse world --out of fear of their anger (and their fear) which wants to restrict and constrict those who are not "them.". Thanks,Will.....
Thanks Will for putting the trans phobia into perspective. It’s mind boggling that so many, in a country based largely on individual freedoms, want to impose their will and their ways on others.
I would suggest that describing the urge among minority groups to maintain their language, culture and customs, rather than being melted in the pot, as "cultural homicide" does reflect a "fear of minorities."
It's not all past. People bring their cultures with them when they come to the U.S. and those cultures enrich this country and they linger. Many immigrants, from all continents (except Antarctica), have done this.
These “conservatives” have become little more than hypocritical scolds and nannys. Where is the personal liberty in that?
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The New York Times has an article on this, too, this morning. Great minds must think alike.
Its about how right wing activists lost the same sex marriage fight, so hunted around for another issue to mobilize their base and this is what they landed on: opposing transgender rights. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/16/us/politics/transgender-conservative-campaign.html
You are spot on and I'm upset they let a small minded community call the shots. Perhaps Crandall Library should host Scarlet Sagamore. I do want to add to my comment that i think rehashing the tragedy in Corinth was unnecessary and a little tacky. A family, (especially the children) shouldn't have to read this and relive with your own opinions, because I feel they have tried to move forward, but hey it's an editorial.
Again I thank you for being an ally to this community and bringing attention to the fact they literally are trying to erase this community.
I listened to remarks made at a library meeting...horrifically ignorant doesn't begin to cover it.
What a sad world we are in that is trying to eradicate human beings.
Please keep writing about this!
I'm not sure it's just a distraction....several states have passed anti trans legislation and one state, has now passed laws stripping adult transgender from receiving care.
I don't begin to understand this hate. But it is heartbreaking and born out of ignorance.
Ashamed of some of America.
Florida could drop off into the ocean and float away and I'd be ecstatic.
People need to wake up because it could be you that's targeted next.
Well Carl I don't plan on visiting Florida again. Little too fascist for me.
Cool ✌️
The hypocritical behavior of the Republican party is stunningly blatant these days. I remember my father (a staunch Republican) dressing in my mother's negligee and bra (with apples in the cups no less!) and a mask for Halloween. I still have the photo. I'm sure he is rolling in his grave to think I'm discussing that in our world today but I'm hoping he is more enlightened now that he is gone. What a wonderful world we would have if everyone just loved and gave. Loved everyone for who they were and gave to others to keep them safe from harm. As the book "Ishmael" states, there are givers and takers and sadly we are faced with more takers these days.
Thanks for the info, I will be congratulating the library on their courage. I wonder if you wrote this article just to antagonize.
Drag is vulgar adult, pornification of women, entertainment. If I thought about it more, I might even call it misogynistic. It ought to be outlawed from children's spaces. I raised three sons. I brought them to story time at the library all the time. I would never have exposed them to the vulgar indoctrination (exposure) of drags. Yes, drags tweak in children's spaces. Drags themselves say they do not belong in children's spaces.
There is no equivalency between cross dressing (as strange as it is) and the vulgarity of drag. Same with transgenderism. Not supporting it does not equal hate or transphobia as liberals like to parrot. It is not evil to believe the science. We are NOT obsessed with trans. Trans seek visibility - think Trans Visibility Day. They are forcing themselves on us.
Although, I would say we are a lot more concerned about what is happening to children than the extreme left. At this point, no one knows if this is a social contagion or not - 80% of gender confusion is coming from girls. I don't understand how those who like to bash conservative thought aren't more concerned about that.
De-transitioners are on the rise and are speaking out.
Let the basing begin.
I have been to a couple of drag brunches and, at least the ones I've been to, were not at all the way you characterized them.
Moving to your other concern, about transgender people; I think the fact that you have issues with trans visibility and consider it "forcing themselves on you" seems to say you think they should not be visible in the public sphere, which more or less does say they should not exist.
I hope that's not what you meant to say. That kind of thinking makes them a target of violence and it is exactly the bigotry that the religious right extremists has been pushing out to divide us all and fire up their base
I've read a few books about the religious right extremists god politics. I strongly disapprove of it. I've taken a lot of crap for it.
You project onto me something that is not true. Through my involvement in the community, I interact with trans often. When I do I am not thinking oh! she/he is trans. I couldn't care less.
What you say makes trans a target does not compute with me. That is not what makes them a target. They make themselves a target. Although lefties charge conservatives with not living and let live. Trans ought to just live and let live. Instead they make a spectacle of themselves. Force us to use their language. Are callously dismissive of women. I personally reject using pronouns. I'll call them any name they want. What I don't get is why they need to trample all over women - like breast feeders, people who pump, normalizing menopause, bleeders, and on and on and on. If a man said he was trans - just trans - and used a female name I'd have no problem at all with that. Not offensive at all. Do you really think that children are not at risk here? I personally think that every child who says they want to transition needs an impartial third party, like a guardian ad litem. I heard mothers gloat about their children being trans. It made me sick.
Trans brought the opposition to transgenderism onto themselves. Then they whine, we are being abused. It's women who are being abuse.
I've never been to anything drag. I know about drag from YouTube drags who look absolutely vulgar. They say that they shouldn't be in children's spaces.
Well, thank you for clarifying, I'm glad you did not mean how it came across to me. I agree with you and think transgender people are entitled to full participation in public life. I also think it is helpful when conservatives like you take issue with the religious right on this, it is important people understand they don't speak for all conservatives.
OMG. I can't believe you project conservatism on me just because I don't support transgender ideology. Come on now, don't you think that's narrow-minded?
I take issue with almost everything on the religious right -- almost everything. I know they are sincerely troubled about trans surgery for young people. You can't listen to de-transistors and not be. I'm not exactly a recovering lib but, I take issue with a lot of BS too.
Sorry, I just assumed you identified as a conservative from your comment about how "...liberals like to parrot" and how "we are more concerned about children than the extreme left". You are 100% correct it is very narrowminded to assume you are conservative. I suspect all of us, regardless of politics, see ourselves as moderates.
Wow. No response to this depth of vitriol and blatant transphobia.
There are some I have no hope for.
And some who don't give a sh*t.
I wonder what your thoughts are about military weaponry within the general public? They harm children of all sexual orientations. Human rights are protective of humans, conservatism and extremists are fearful of "other" humans and ultimately divisive and destructive. Confusion? There are adults in your midst who have hidden the truth about their sexuality all or most of their lives. They were fearful of shaming, persecution, and even murder or suicide. Think about that.
Quick question, Sophia - what is the difference between being anti-minority and being anti-gay? Are they not both about prejudice? Why do you think it acceptable to accept one, but not the other? And please provide examples of how "we are a lot more concerned about what is happening to children than the extreme left. " Which "side" is more concerned about gun-violence, the "left" or the "right"?
Your strong opinions of drag are based on selective videos you’ve seen on YouTube. I see you’ve done some real research there, huh. 🙄
Drag queens are cross-dressers. They are also performers, who seek to entertain through over-the-top portrayals of the other sex. There usually is an over-the-top aspect in cross-dressing. Otherwise, why do it?
The question should be - why do it for children? Clowns are for children, drag is for adults.
It seems quite insane to me that anyone would defend it. That's not a political statement.
I think the question should be, "Is the content positive for children?" Clowns can do a show with content that isn't right for kids, so can anyone. A large amount of the stuff on TV and streaming and elsewhere online isn't good for kids. I think it's legitimate, too, to consider the character of the performer. Was "America's Dad" Bill Cosby good for kids? (I'm veering off subject.)
What looks like it could be a positive here - is not. We are not going to agree about this.
Drags reading to kids is NEVER a positive. It's all about indoctrination that leads to mocking women and accepting vulgarity. For some vulgarity is acceptable, not for me.
Drag is NEVER good for women either. Children should not be learning how to mock women.
There is very little on the tube that is good for anyone.
Are there drag kings? Why is "over-the-top vulgar mocking women, especially in this climate that is dismissive of women ok?
Why indoctrinate children in women mocking?
I wouldn’t call the postponement bravery of the library board. More like they were terrified after being harassed nonstop via library phone, online, in person and at their homes. Yes. Folks hunted down their home phone numbers and wouldn’t leave them alone. People “worried about what their kids are exposed to” exposed them to the worst side of humanity last week.
With the way a certain political party is acting, I would not be surprised if they wanted the witch trials again.
Bummer about the library show. Oh well. I'm on the way to Proctor's to see "Tootsie" today.
I saw Tootsie on Weds. It was a lot of fun. Also saw Thirsty Burlington do Cher at the Wood Theater last night - which was awesome - Ms Sagamore did the opening number to a Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5. She was fun & entertaining- absolutely nothing sexual about her persona. Those against these things don’t even know the difference between a drag queen and a trans person. Drag queens are wonderful entertainers - even for kids - because they are over-the-top personalities. It’s beyond sad that conservatives refuse to understand what it is they’re canceling & legislating against - but then again that’s the MO for them (see: abortion) all while claiming to be the party of personal rights. Such liars.
Sophia I do think you are transphobic. Your comments about having a trans day of visibility show that.
A person in my family is trans. I will fight forever so that people like you do see them.
They are human beings and deserve the same rights you and I are afforded.
We have days to celebrate everything else....that does not mean they are pushing something on you.
It's quite obvious how you feel and comments like you just make those of us who care about equality dig in deeper and harder.
Hate, fear and disinformation won't win.
The library event was not forced on anyone. Don't like it ? Then don't go.
But why pile more onto a group of people that are already struggling to just live their lives?
I just don't get you.
“…they went after the school boards, and when they went after the library boards the end was near…” Death of Democracy in America, 2042. University of Gilead Press
Perfect!
Did anyone think it was weird that the Dalia Lama asked a 12-year-old boy to suck his tongue last week? I was completely taken aback by the silence and the defense of what he did. It took me back to the story that the Boston Globe Spotlight department who broke a 2-year investigation of the Archdiocese of Boston. the story broke January 6th 2001. I was working at Catholic Charities in Glens Falls at the time. You may be wondering why I bring this up and how does it have anything to do with Drag Queen story hour at the Lake Luzerne Library. Let me get back to what it was like to be working at Catholic Charities at the time the Boston story broke of over 400 priests sexually abusing children over 40 years and how they got away with it. Back in those days large newspapers actually had an investigation unit that was interested in the truth no matter who it may hurt. Can you imagine how hard it was for them since Boston had a huge Catholic presence. If anyone was paying attention a few weeks ago the Albany Diocese just declared bankruptcy on March 31st due to all the lawsuits that they have had to pay out over the last 20 years for their priests who sexually abused children in our area. The week the Boston Globe story broke grown men showed up at our office on Broad St telling us they were abused. I spent 8 years as a DV consultant from 1996-2004 inside Warren and Washington County CPS and my job was to educate them in DV and they educated me with child abuse and child sex abuse. After you have heard the stories from children, and I can never unhear those grafic details, you may understand that we are going into the wrong direction of how much today that children are being sexualized. I saw how a pedophile could ruin a child's life and I saw and heard parents who did not believe their children when they came to them about being abused. I remember during the priest investigations folks would tell me how horrible it was but in the same breath they would say..my priest would never do that. I am not implying that drag queens are pedophiles..when I was trained, I was told the pedophiles usually work in fields where there are near children as much as they can be. I was shocked at a training by the FBI that a large number of pediatricians were pedophiles. We can think about daycares, teachers, coaches, scout leaders and well as others. I think that some fears of parents are that their job is to protect their children..like all those parents that did not protect their children and did not believe them when they spoke to them. We need to go back to good touch bad touch and that anyone can abuse their child. Maybe, the drag queen could read those books and tell children that no one has the right to make them feel uncomfortable. I love a good drag queen show and I most likely would not have taken my young children with me. I did go with my 40-year-old daughter at the time. I just want us to be aware that there are some adults that have bad intentions with young children, and we never can lose sight of that. That does not make us anti trans, homophobic, as I believe everyone wants their own children to be safe. One of the things, I most admire about Will Dolittle is he is contrarian. I remember at a dinner at my house in the late 90's with him and his wife Bella and the lively argument at the dinner table that he believed victims of rape should have their name in the paper. I thought Bella who also worked at Domestic Violence with me, was going to make him walk home. I never quite knew if he really thought that or just being contrarian made lively dinner table talk. Again, I think in all honesty, we need to be able to have conversations that do not shut down people's fears. If we are able to express those fears, then that helps us all to understand how some people may have their own reasons for what they do.
Hi Patty! I would say, people should be free to choose to go to drag shows or not, but you have no choice when the shows are run out of town. I do remember that dinner but not that comment, although I'm sure your memory is accurate. I like to think I'm less inclined to seek out confrontation and conflict now that I'm older and ... more understanding, maybe? More thoughtful? More tired? It does sound as if, at a dinner with domestic violence counselors, I was looking for the most inflammatory thing to say that I could find a way to defend. I have a little less faith in principles now, especially when abiding by the principle -- such as printing whatever information you have and are allowed to publish, such as the names of rape victims (some states have since passed laws against this, I believe), may accomplish something in the long term, such as lessening the stigma of rape, but will definitely hurt certain people in the immediate term.
Wow. No, you’re traumatized and absolutely wrong.
I think here, as with school boards and parents' rights and "freedom," a small vocal sometimes threatening and violent minority manage to silence people who just want the rights of all people to be who they are, not doing harm but not being part of a group that insists that their rights--patriarchal, christian, white --are the only rights. Why should librarians, teachers, election workers, peaceful protesters, trans, gays...feel attacked...And how can we not relinquish our freedom--our inclusive and diverse world --out of fear of their anger (and their fear) which wants to restrict and constrict those who are not "them.". Thanks,Will.....
And you know that how?
Thanks Will for putting the trans phobia into perspective. It’s mind boggling that so many, in a country based largely on individual freedoms, want to impose their will and their ways on others.