Mich, you don’t know anyone who’s doing that right now.
My closest friend, I've known her for 26 years, recently has become aggressively transphobic, like shoehorning anti trans taking points and jokes in places where they don't even fit. We've never had a conversation about how I feel about trans people, but this woman is involved in every aspect of my life, and has been since we've met, she knows I am way left of center, yet she continues with the transphobic crap. In March I was in my car with a couple of colleagues, my phone is always connected on Bluetooth. She opened the call by calling herself a "rough ridin' Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)." I was mortified.
She was in my wedding, she's been around for the birth of all three of my children. My kids love her, her kids love us. She used to be a liberal, she once considered running for local office as a Dem, but she turned maga, but one that doesn't outwardly support trump, will definitely be a Desantis voter. She goes to church every Sunday and one of those people who's facebook isn't overtly political in nature, it's all her family and scripture. Her husband, who I've known just as long, is one who consumes a lot of conservative media, and believes every bit of it.
Anyway, I love them but I don't know what to do about this. I would be okay with all of us just not going there, but with most maga people, they just can't help it. I went to watch her son compete in a state championship earlier this season and they had family members there decked out in maga gear. How can I not wonder what these people say about me and others I care for, when I'm not around?
