When the “woke” mania swept the country in 2020, I took a step back and reevaluated where I stood and why I stood there. To my surprise, I found that I agreed with conservatives and libertarians on a number of issues. I opposed childhood gender transitions, unlawful and divisive DEI mandates, and the excesses of Critical Race Theory. I argued against biological males competing in women’s sports and being housed in women’s prisons. I did so loudly and publicly, losing many friends along the way.
Today, some of those same attorneys I worked with are advocating for my right to marry my fiancée to be stripped away.
I fell for obvious right-wing propaganda and rationalized the hate with reason and logic. Now the hate machine is coming for me and that’s not fair!
That depends if they’re the “let’s keep our own names, fuck the patriarchy” type of lesbian, or the “let’s bond in a quirky way by both changing our last name to a hyphenated or portmanteau’d form of our names” type of lesbian. The former would be unaffected by the proposed voting restrictions, while the latter could both have a great deal of trouble voting.
Yet.