I’m not Christian, but from what I’ve read of Jesus, he’d want us to love and respect trans folk. You know, along with the widow, the orphan, the disabled, the foreigner and so on.

What the bible shows us is that hatred of the other, to the point of violence, is an old, old problem, and we actually have to put effort into exercising tolerance.

I learned this stuff from Sesame Street and Saturday-morning cartoons in the 1970s, a message that seems to have been lost since.