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!”
The former University of California staffer’s virulent activism began several years ago following her own daughter’s transition.
Ah, there’s the rub. Her oldest child is trans and she just couldn’t accept it. The article linked in the quote is very interesting and gives a lot more context.
It truly is what Yoda said: Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.
She can be a crazed suffering wreck in jail but she has no business trying to lead anything. Bitch is actively hurting kids through discourse
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.
