In the news today: How far will the Supreme Court go to promote trans ignorance and anti-trans bigotry? By Hal M. Brown, MSW

Above: Protesters of Kentucky Senate Bill SB150, known as the Transgender Health Bill, cheer on speakers during a rally on the lawn of the Kentucky Capitol in Frankfort, Ky., March 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley, File)

Here's a repost an updated version of yesterday's blog on this topic which you can read here.

In addition to the legislators I wrote about yesterday, the newly elected trans member of the House Sarah McBride, and Leigh Finke, trans member of the Minnesota House, the trans people and their parents being interviewed on TV (at least on CNN) are also doing a great job of conveying their humanity to those willing to listen to them.

This is the crucial part. Who are the people who are willing to listen with empathy rather than entrenched prejudice based on a combination of ignorance and bigotry. How many of them are open to changing their minds?

There are so many people who consider others to be less than human because of their beliefs. This is especially true when if comes to members of the LGBTQ+++ community and in that group those who are transexual.

I am lucky enough to live in Oregon. If the Supreme Court rules against gender affirming care for adolescents my state and the other states in white below will turn red. 

This case isn't really about trans, it isn't about medicine, it isn't about saving lives, it isn't about what people like Kristen Waggoner, President, Alliance for Freedom says it is as I write this. She is scare mongering and making up stories about people who decide to change genders and later change their minds. Obviously this is what counseling is for.

What it is is another battle in the war against woke. For the anti-woke zealots and bigots it is their Fort Sumter occupied by the Union. They are like the South Carolina Militia bombarding it with artillery while local resident of Charlston cheered from the shore. This is considered the start of the Civil War. They believe they have to take take the woke fort as they did Fort Sumter in 1861. 

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