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!”

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    Most of the relationships she spent years forming — as a mom, community member, and university employee — have now dissolved. No one called her on her birthday last month, she said, through glassy eyes filled to the brim with tears once again. Attempts to connect with these former friends — by sending them controversial columns about gender identity, for example — are not received kindly. “We don’t want to hear from you,” Beth said a friend recently told her. “Don’t send us anything anymore,” said another.

    she seems closer to the verge of emotional breakdown than she is to the verge of an insult.

    The mom needs some impartial advice as to why everyone in her life cut ties with her, and why her eldest child being happy is driving her to the point of a mental breakdown.

    Just another opportunity to post about the missing missing reasons.

    EDIT: Quotes are from the sacbee article linked elsewhere in the comments.