When I start to question my sanity
It's been imminent, dangerous and devastating for us since 2019 and I won't be quiet. 2020 was horrific because of gender identity idewoogly hitting our home and I will be here for it's dying breath. Sometimes I worry that I'm being like the people in the 80's that prompted section 28 into schools. People were so unhappy that lesbian and gay were becoming a known to children. I remember at the time feeling the outrage and unfairness. I remember seeing these children needing this information. Celebrities, religious leaders, doctors, parents, and students wrote letters, signed petitions, and risked careers to speak out. They weren’t all radicals—they were people with a conscience who could see that criminalizing care, silence, or knowledge of lesbian and gay children was not the answer. Section 28 stayed in law for 15 years, but over time, public opinion shifted. Many of those who had been afraid in the '80s—afraid of change, of disruption, of children hearing ...