With Senate’s approval, S.D. could be first to pass transgender bathroom bill
Tuesday, February 16th, 2016With Senate’s approval, S.D. could be first to pass transgender bathroom bill:
This is so embarrassing. Why does my home state only ever make the news when it’s doing something discriminatory and shameful? Growing up with a liberal mindset in a place as conservative as South Dakota was exceedingly challenging – in school, I felt surrounded by hatred and hostility for the unfamiliar and unknown. I can’t fathom the sort of fear my classmates who struggled with gender identity or sexual orientation must have harbored. This is a sad perpetuation, a wrongful confirmation to fearful people that their perverse interest in what’s going on under someone’s clothes is any business at all of theirs.
South Dakota is a beautiful state with a rich and complicated history, but it’s difficult to speak kindly of it as a whole when it regurgitates such a lack of compassion under the guise of protection.
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