• dhork@lemmy.world
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    The article itself is worth reading, but it includes a link to a Sacramento bee article about this woman and her trans kid. It seems like after the kid came out as trans, the mom really went off the deep end :

    https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article285961211.html

    This woman is so wrapped up in her anti-trans crusade that it’s not just ruining her relationship with her child, but it’s consuming her to the point that it’s all she talks about. The article mentions that her friends and co-workers have had to ask her to stop sending articles about it. And now she’s been kicked out of the hotel she was staying at because she saw some guys in dresses and started throwing a fit. The hotel even offered to refund her stay, but she persisted and got escorted out by the cops instead.

    She seems stuck in a misery of her own making. At least her kid seems to have a level head about all of it. I will never understand how some parents would let stuff like that get in the way of their relationship with their kids.

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    Beth Bourne, an employee at the University ofCalifornia Davis and active chair of the far-right extremist group Moms for Liberty in Yolo County, Calif., launched into an unsolicited tirade against a group ofdrag queens who were officially invited to partake in a video shoot promoting an upcoming pageant.

    Fire this piece of shit. She gives the school a bad name.

    I wouldn’t feel terrible if this asshole got zapped by lightning. And hit by an asteroid. And launched into the sun.

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    I’m worried about the boys of my community who think that they could become women because they’re effeminate, care, and they like wearing makeup, and they like wearing drag.

    Ah, so attacking someone and making a scene is going to fix this how…?

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      Also, has she tried talking to those boys?

      I mean, if they’re so easily swayed that just seeing drag queens will turn them into women[?] then surely they can be easily swayed back. Maybe show them well-oiled, handsome muscle men without their shirts on to inspire them to be manly?

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      Also, if a boy wanted to wear makeup and a dress while still being a boy, you know this lady would still have a problem with it.

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      Oh right, so not the actual gun toting fuckheads with a Union Jack flag running around out there in sundown towns. Or the drug lords. Or the rapists out there protecting their livelihoods and given too much power.

      So is the only reason you’re siding with the drag queens in this situation because they aren’t actual women and therefore scare you less? Cuz you should side with them here but not because you’re just that much more scared of women. Wrong lead to be taking here.

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      Your assessment of which women people might want to have sex with is not indicative of what those women believe or act upon.