Why do these people hate rock 'n roll?

The current Republican Party has picked the group of Americans it wants to demonize in the hope that enough voters in the mushy middle will vote Republican in order to keep all of us -- especially "the children" -- safe from this social menace: transgender and non-binary people. This is a mean-spirited, cynical, ugly campaign of fear, intimidation, and hatred aimed at a group that is one of the most vulnerable communities in the US today. The kind of people a bully looks to target. Pretty par for the course in what has become of the GOP at this point.

I'm not going to repeat the many powerful arguments against transphobia or go over the many reasons why "protecting the children" is such utter nonsense. If people want to talk about protecting our children from actual menaces, I'm ready to talk -- about how many school kids' lives could be saved if we banned military assault weapons and closed loopholes that let people with severe mental illness or criminal histories access guns. I'm rea…