You know what was fun? Last February when we went down to visit my husband’s elderly Fox News Trump voting grandpa. Who also happens to be quite wealthy. And he knows my husband is liberal, so he likes to try and get a rise out of him. So within ten seconds of arriving at his house, he starts in on transgendered people because bathroom bills were the hysteria dejour at the time.
Said grandfather is an alumni of a very famous engineering school and has generously donated to them throughout his life. Enough money that when he read in the alumni magazine that the school had put some all gender bathrooms on the campus, and called to say he would never donate again because of that, the school said they would be sending the head of alumni donations down to FL to talk to him in person.
So he’s telling us this story and I’m sitting there listening. And I was like “do you remember our wedding?” And he said “of course, it was a very lovely wedding. What does that have to do with this?” And then I pointed out to him that there had been a transgendered individual at our wedding and that he had at one point had a conversation with this person and possibly shared a bathroom with him. “He’s transgendered?!” Yes, yes he is. “I wouldn’t have known that”. Why would you have? He’s just a regular human, not a mythical monster.
The hysteria over transgendered people has got to stop. It just does. They’re humans. There is no other side to this argument.
