This Is How We Change People's Minds

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You all probably also know on Saturdays, I write "Saturday 9" meme. Most of the people who also play along on meme are Christian women. Well I have two comments from them, the first from So California...

Not a lot of transgender adds here in So CA, though it is an issue for the far right. I met my first transgender when I worked at the post office in the mid 70's. I also took a class in human sexuality that explained things and then had that same person as a guest. I don't understand a lot, but I do understand being kind. My neighbor is also a transgender and we get along fine. People are so quick to judge based on what they see. I am a Christian and I try not to judge. Jesus taught love, not hate. Too many people forget that. Oh, I voted for mail and have for years.

The other from Long Island NY...

I voted early. I am holding my breath until the results are final, I voted for my grandmothers, who fled the pogroms of Europe. I voted for my mother, who my father said “was a liberated woman before there was such a thing,”. I voted for my daughters, who should have the same rights I had. I want to cry tonight like I did in 2008, not line I did in 2016.

We shape many minds by just being ourselves, just by living our lives. Last week I wrote about voting and how while waiting inline I talked to other people around and just by being out we change people's minds.

What the Republicans want to do is bring us back to pre-Stonewall, to pre-Silver Lake's Black Cat Uprising, pre-Cooper Do-nuts Uprising, and the Compton Cafeteria protests, where you had to wear 3 items of male clothing (and socks counted as only one item.) or you could be arrested.

They want to force us the dark allies or the sleazed bars. I remember the hearing gay stories who they hop for bed to bed in one nightstands. That is what the Republicans want to force us back to the closet.

This is what they want to bring us back to...

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