[Graybeard58]

City Manager Susan Stanton, who transitioned from male to female this year.

Whatever happened to that perfectly good English word "freak"?

[tbw2]

One of my coworkers changed gender, surgery and all. She came back and we all had an adjustment period.
The company had diversity day, and the GLBT society had 2 speakers. The Black Engineering society had 1 speaker.
One of my coworkers, a black single mother, argued about this with the transgendered individual.
The African American’s summary: There is a lot that needs to be done for 200 years or racism.
Transgender: And the needs of my group have barely begun to be recognized. You’ve had 50 years of civil rights; we haven’t had 5.
African american: There is still systemic bias against blacks, whether low expectations in schools or expectations of crime. Hence we need more speakers and awareness, not less. And you don’t know what it is like to be a minority!
Transgender: There are a lot more people who look like you who look like me.
Next round of layoffs, guess which one isn’t here anymore?

[buffaloKiller]

The "freak" is also a "queer" by all measures. It is time to bring back fully the perjorative for these miscreants. To pamper them with their "nice sounding names" (oh how gay you are) for the pervesity they portray and parade is just bad tactics in the Culture War and will not help in purging these enemies of America. Make no mistake, they are intending to bring down America just as the Mussies are. We are in a three way fight and it is a "tossup" as to who will win (well, not really but one gets to belabor the point in these posts).