No one but family could turn a blind eye to amount of Cajun Style Boiled Peanuts and Trulys I purchase from them on the regular.

If you’re a bigot, you are probably frightening someone in your life that you “love” who hasn’t come out yet. The reason they seek out openly queer people is not because we are manipulating them into being queer, but because they ¡already are!, and we are being the family you could never be.

The reason we often become “woke” activists is because we know other trans people are out there who are scared. Especially if their family scare and don’t understand them, they need to see people fighting for them and affirming that they deserve happiness and love.

Like it or not, treating people who have gender dysphoria with gender affirming care is the medical standard… because it works!! No matter what you believe ontologically about sex/gender, trans people who get treatment get a chance at happy life. We want to live normal lives.

The hate and misinformation I see about the trans community on the daily upsets me not only because it is factually wrong, but because myself and others who have known joy for the first time in our lives since transitioning are now looking at losing the very thing that saved us.

Turning the other cheek in this instance just gives the right what they want. No amount of civility will make them respect #trans people.

I understand Mcbride not wanting to ruffle feathers right off the bat, but if she is not willing to, every democrat should be livid on her behalf, and pushing back against the Republicans. Good on @aoc.bsky.social for actually standing up for McBride.