My Neighbors Ended Free Childhood Health Care Over Anti-Trans Hatred
Antisemitic, Islamophobic accusations of Satanism also played a role
When anti-transgender hatred mixes with notions of Christian supremacy, can anything good result? I live in a small village just a short drive from a little town where health care for children is being sacrificed to hateful ideology. You might have seen some of this in the news, but I live here, so let me give you a close-up account of a very disturbing story. And then let me end with an encouraging note. It looks my neighbors aren’t taking this lying down!
My neighbor doesn’t have much money. So, last year when chronic arthritis started preventing me from doing most of my own lawn care, she jumped at the chance to earn a little extra cash.
Like most folks around here, she works more than one job but sometimes struggles to pay rent and feed her four kids. Many of my neighbors are poor, Appalachia poor, which I don’t mean as a slur on Appalachia. We’re very rural, far from job centers, and low income is just life in the country for lots of Americans.
But small communities look out for their own.
Communities around here sponsor food banks and offer free substance abuse counseling. Often, clinics in public schools…
