| What's it feel like to be a political scapegoat? That's what I wanted to find out when I called Jennifer Finney Boylan -- the author of more than a dozen books, including the memoir "She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders" – last week. In the past few years, and certainly since the election of Donald Trump, Republicans have begun to vocally oppose what Time magazine once called "the transgender tipping point." As a result, some Democrats have begun to fear that progress on trans rights and trans acceptance has begun to hurt their party at the ballot box. So I called Jenny and asked her to tell us what it feels like now that Republicans have, in her words, "made anti-transgender rhetoric a central pillar of their ideology" and when some progressives are so worried about losing the midterms that they "suggest that we should just lie low until after November, or — who knows? — perhaps some date even later than that." She turned in a beautiful column about the politicized changes she's seen since she came out as a transgender woman to her Republican mother and her friends 21 years ago, and why she thinks trans people should not have to hide to help Democrats win in 2022. Read it here. We're making this article free for Opinions A.M. readers. To access everything we publish, please consider becoming a subscriber.  (Michael Hirshon for The Washington Post) Republicans have made anti-transgender rhetoric a central pillar of their ideology, so now some progressives say we should lie low until after the midterms. By Jennifer Finney Boylan ● Read more » | | | | The centrist senator's support for the drug and energy bill prompted howls of betrayal. By Dana Milbank ● Read more » | | | | We are no longer a country of give-and-take. By Brian Broome ● Read more » | | | Justice Thomas backs away from a teaching gig at GWU. He should have stayed put. By Kathleen Parker ● Read more » | | | | Once again, Democrats are jumping on the euphemism treadmill. By Megan McArdle ● Read more » | | | | Instead of working toward a better future, they give their constituents a fable that coal can be revived. By Paul Waldman ● Read more » | | | | The governor understands that woke corporations are simply the latest threat from which the people need protection. By Henry Olsen ● Read more » | | | Hester Prynne uses the special powers given to her by her cool letter-A suit to shatter society's expectations of what women can do! By Alexandra Petri ● Read more » | | | | In many ways, he was just like my own brother: Role model, counselor, advocate, scourge — and always fiercely loyal. By David Von Drehle ● Read more » | | | | There won't be any real political price for playing some serious political hardball. By Greg Sargent ● Read more » | | | | Many academics are not 'captured by' Twitter; it is their 'safe space.' Their febrile shallowness is not 'Twitter-induced'; Twitter is a response to it. By George F. Will ● Read more » | | | |
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