Republicans in Elida are now in full freakout mode over transgender bathroom issues in schools. One recent letter writer said they would no longer vote for tax levies and encouraged others to do the same.
Try to imagine what it’s like to be a transgender teenager. And all you want to do is go to school without rabid packs of Fox News viewers threatening to completely destroy the public school system if you dare to use the bathroom.
Have you ever met these transgender people? If you did, maybe you would see they are just fellow humans trying to live their lives and walk their path and deserve to be treated with dignity and respect, you know, like you think you deserve to be treated.
It’s very likely that throughout your life you have shared a bathroom with many people who were a wide variety of sexual orientations and genders. You just didn’t care and didn’t know you were supposed to care until the Republican Party told you to care.
Do you really think you have never shared a bathroom with a transgender person? Of course you have. How would you know? Are you peeking in the stall next to you at the airport?
This behavior by grown adults is sad, pathetic and without excuse. Just leave them alone. They have done nothing wrong to you or anyone else. Turn off Fox News. Go and meet some transgender people. Replace ignorance and hate with empathy and compassion.
Robert Dotson
Lima
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