Sarah McBride is Now the Most Serious Issue Addressed by the House


A trans woman, Sarah McBride, is an elected member of the House of Representatives. House Republicans have now set aside major issues of the world, wars in Israel and Ukraine, to debate which rest room Sarah will be allowed to use. This issue is of major importance because, Republicans believe, the Bible only recognized males and females.

Let's envision Sarah McBride dressed as she is everyday entered the men's rest room. Would several men simply keel over, dead? Or, what if she entered the women's rest room dressed the same way. Would several women die on site as well? To be honest, I don't think anyone would die. Eye roll maybe but death no. 

I think it was in the 1970's I was in a restaurant in a bohemian area near the University of Minnesota and saw for the first time a rest room labeled for either gender. Now, we all know, unisex rest rooms is a way for businesses to save some money and it often eliminates lines. 

Long before that when my wife and I were graduate students we drove through Mexico to Guatemala using a book called "Mexico on $5 day." We stayed at hotels frequented by to lower income locals. I remember one where rooms had no bathrooms so guests used a big one down the hall. It was unisex. Stools and showers had doors so one could dress appropriately before exiting. No one died there either.

The Republican motto should be, "We point at people who are different than the majority and try to make their lives miserable." Unfortunately, it is a political technique that is quite successful. 

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