What civility really means by Nancy French
I first started following Kathy Kattenburg on Twitter after she showed kindness to me following an article about my sex abuse in the Washington Post, at a time when many of my supposedly like-minded conservatives had not. It seemed like a minor example of cross-the-aisle political civility. But it soon revealed itself to be a lesson in how elusive civility can be these days, especially online, in an age when we’re often told (or telling others) that we need more of it.
She Supported Her Child Being Trans. So the State Separated Them. by Roxanna Asgarian

This poor kid. I hope he is able to get some therapy and live his life in the way that’s most comfortable for him. Also I do not want to hear anything about good intentions or think of the children from anyone who is in favor of these anti-trans laws. This is one kid, and he’s going to be fucked up to some degree for a huge part of his life because certain people in this country decided that deploying the power of the state to make trans people’s lives difficult was something worth doing.