It’s hard to think of a more perfect contrast between generations or a more fitting issue to divide them. Are trans rights, as Sorkin put it, just a distraction? The right’s obsession with trans people is 50x what you imagine it to be. Trans writer Katelyn BurnsIt’s easy to think about trans rights as a frivolous issue, antithetical to a “non-stupid” party, until you realize the depth of the opposition to trans people’s mere existence and the massive legal and financial support for material anti-trans discrimination. “The rallies I’ve attended for trans rights are attended... mostly only by trans people,” Burns wrote.

Source: Huffington Post January 22, 2019 19:52 UTC