This presumes the only thing she's done is make public statements but that's not actually all that important to my point so whatever. So look, I don't know, I

This presumes the only thing she's done is make public statements but that's not actually all that important to my point so whatever. So look, I don't know, I obviously fall on one side of this issue but disagreement on it is more American than apple pie at this point. The idea that certain kinds of speech manifest in real life harm is the basis for hate speech laws around the world. I'm just gonna quote Germany's legal code because they distill what hate speech is better than I could. "Assaults the human dignity of others by insulting, maliciously maligning an aforementioned group, segments of the population or individuals because of their belonging to one of the aforementioned groups or segments of the population, or defaming segments of the population." In my view you can only say "la la sticks and stones" up until the point where all the dehumanizing speech turns the political tide and the cultural forces that keep people from wantonly harming particular groups fall apart and we get articles like * 2022 - https://reports.hrc.org/an-epidemic-of-violence-2022 https://reports.hrc.org/an-epidemic-of-violence-2022 * 2021 - https://reports.hrc.org/an-epidemic-of-violence-fatal-violence-against-transgender-and-gender-non-confirming-people-in-the-united-states-in-2021 https://reports.hrc.org/an-epidemic-of-violence-fatal-violen... * 2020 - https://www.hrc.org/resources/violence-against-the-trans-and-gender-non-conforming-community-in-2020 https://www.hrc.org/resources/violence-against-the-trans-and... * 2019 - https://www.hrc.org/resources/violence-against-the-transgender-community-in-2019 https://www.hrc.org/resources/violence-against-the-transgend... * 2018 - https://hrc-prod-requests.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/files/assets/resources/AntiTransViolence-2018Report-Final.pdf https://hrc-prod-requests.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/files/a... It's really depressing they can fill one of these articles out every year.