Her reputation preceded her. As Bourne approached the lectern for public comment — shouting about “healthy, whole women!” — scores of district-area teachers got up from their seats and walked out of the meeting.
Bourne went ballistic.
“Ask those teachers to stop interrupting my comment!” she shouted at the meeting chair. “I want my time back! I want my time back!”
These are the kinds of people who make me actively cram down my own personal squeamishness surrounding the subject to actively try to be a better person towards trans and intergender people and anyone else who is non-binary.
Our civilization could be so much better without hate. Especially when it’s over variations of conception or development. People can’t do a damn thing about it – as an AuDHD person myself, I know. I wish there was a pill that could utterly eliminate all symptoms of my ADD, but there isn’t.
Thankyou for acknowledging the ‘squeamishness’, better still being a good person and recognising it as whait is.
And that is literally all what it is - a physical squeamishness. That’s it. And no, a firm, professional business handshake doesn’t trigger it.
And I see two people going nookie on each other, I’ll yell at them to get a room no matter what the combination. I don’t need to see your tentacle-tongues in action, much less anything more risqué.
Same, that’s why i dont get these people. I get it, queerness is not my preference, i also dont like pineapple on pizza. The solution is simple, i can just choose not to eat pineapple pizza and let other people eat whatever the hell they want.
If more of humanity could adopt this simple piece of philosophy, our entire civilization would be so much better off.