Folly, Unending

CONSERVATISM'S FOLLY seems unending. Not content to merely supress knowledge, consor content, and ban books, America's right wing wants to make it illegal in conservative states and ultimately in all AMerica for transgender people to use any public restroom other than one which corresponds to the sex listed on their birth certificates. As if transgender people are faking being transgender for some horrible ulterior motive, like sexual misconduct. As if passing some idiotic law would prevent it, if it were even true, which, quite obviously, it is not. The behavioral pattern among conservatives emerges. Namely, a tendency to respond to any and all unpleasant or inonvenient facts by simply denying them, by pretending that what exists does not, and what does not, does. denial of climate change. Denial of election results. Denial of racism. Denial of alternativve sexual orientations, transgenderism and homosexuality. The pattern is clear, and obvious. And yet, all these things exist. Hint to conservatives: the people who are transgender are not faking it. And also, all transgender want is to be treated the way they want to be treated, with equality ad basic respect, and they the transgender peope are the best authorities on which public restroom they should use, male or female. All they want is to feel safe and confortable, like everybody else, in public restrooms. Straight people are far more likely to be rapists, pedaphiles, or criminals of any sort than transgender people, period. Rape, pedophelia, sex crimes in general, it almost seems, are far more common within the conservative, heterosexual wings of the Baptist and Catholic churches than the LGBTQ community. It is entirely unnecessary, and indeed entirely paranoid, twisted, and cruel, these "bathroom" bills being passed in conservative states. Stupid, needless, much like the "don't say 'gay'" laws springing up in conservative states, namely, Florida. Consider the conservative passion for "limited government", for keeping government out of people's lives, for the sake of personal freedom and liberty. And yet, conservatives want to legislate public restroom usage, they want to ban books from school libraries, they want to prohibit the teaching about gay people and racism in America. This epidemic of idiotic, legislative moralizing is the greatest example of government "over reach" in the U.S.., and it is a conservative movement, lock, stock, and barrel.