“Trangender Visibility Day” is marked each year on March 31 (who knew?), which this year happened to coincide with the celebration of Easter.
That confluence led to quite the public firestorm in some quarters, as when the nine Democrats on the 10-member Fairfax County Board of Supervisors voted to mark the former with a formal resolution. Either they were clueless that there might be some offense taken by some, or didn’t care.
We’ve got no particular problem with interested parties marking “Transgender Visibility Day” – despite the fact it sometimes appears there’s no more overexposed group of Americans out there at the moment. But was there any particular reason Fairfax supervisors had to get involved? Can’t they just swim in their own lane down in the lower echelons of elected office, leaving the culture wars to others?
They could, but they won’t, especially since some have the perhaps misguided aspiration of moving further up the political ladder, and have to keep their left flank happy.
The “pander bear” is the official spirit animal of politicians everywhere, after all.
