Folly to be Wise
As I was putting my laptop on my bike to head home today, a coworker I'd never spoken with stopped to talk. I remember noticing the guy with a goatee and long blonde hair, wearing all black every day, who always looked like he'd stepped out of a renaissance fair, or possibly a fantasy romance novel cover (seriously, leather vambraces and boots were common accessories) maybe 10 years ago. Perhaps a year or so ago, this blonde woman of similar height, build, and aesthetic showed up, sans goatee, plus lipstick. Without preamble, she launched right in about how awful the new measures against trans people seeking affirming care are, and how she never saw it coming. It turns out she didn't vote in 2024, and hadn't understood just how aggressively she would be targeted by Trump - not just as a trans woman, but as a veteran. The chaos has her frightened and feeling mistreated by the VA, right down to the needless cruelty of the provider she got her most recent hairpiece from (a...