As a Gen X girl, raised in Austin, TX, I was a solidly “purple” republican.  I said I was fiscally conservative and socially liberal.  You do you, and if it doesn’t infringe on my freedom – go for it.  In other words, libertarian.  But as a Reagan devotee, I called myself a republican and thought nothing of it.

Spending a decade in Los Angeles, I met and adored many gay friends.  My best friend was gay, and I miss him constantly in these weird Orwellian days.  So many questions I want to ask him about where he might stand on these issues.  We had a handful of discussions about the transgender movement over the years and as a gay man he felt their concerns were not his concerns and often felt they were interlopers into his progressive goals.  So when I read Elizabeth Warren’s proclamation claiming student debt is a “gender justice” issue, I just got riotously angry.  There is no gender “justice” without defined genders.