Bullying begins for all those not right with Trump
By Sid Schwab / Herald Columnist
“I strongly support LGBTQ rights and equality. No one should be discriminated against. I have friends and family that identify as LGBTQ. Understanding how they feel and how they’ve been treated is important. Having been around gay, lesbian and transgender people has informed my opinion over my lifetime.”
That was two years ago, spoken by opportunistic, values-bereft Congressperson Nancy Mace, R-S.C., before the Trump campaign spent more money on anti-trans ads than anything else. Before, in other words, concluding that to retain one’s MAGA credentials, one must join the attack on vulnerable Americans; especially trans people.
So when newly elected Rep. Sarah McBride, D-Del., the first openly trans person to be elected to Congress, showed up, Mace took it upon herself to protect female users of Capitol bathrooms from whatever threat she imagines happening by allowing McBride in. She was, of course, joined by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who never misses an opportunity to screech for Fox “news.” After which House Speaker Mike Johnson, who’d previously informed us that God Himself had spoken to him and anointed him the Republican Party’s modern-day Moses, declared that his (or His?) gendered bathrooms may be used only according to one’s birth gender. For a look-at-me Christian, he sure is uncharitable.
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What will happen if Sarah McBride uses a women’s restroom? She’ll walk in, go into a stall, close the door, attend to necessities, exit the stall, wash her hands (one assumes) and leave. Unless Mace and Greene like to parade around naked in bathrooms, and who can say they don’t, no one will see anything. They know this. They also know that that kind of nastiness works on their voters; that it does is indescribably sad. But it’s a preview of what can be expected from Trump and the people with whom he’s surrounding himself.
https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/schwab-bullying-begins-for-all-those-not-right-with-trump/
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The actual number of trans people, 1%
From the same article, people thought 30% of Americans lived in NYC. Not NY state, the city. So one in three people you know lives in NYC. 
We are a nation of morons.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/americans-have-one-very-strange-cognitive