The Face of Intolerance
Look at this photograph.
It doesn’t seem to be a picture of someone heartless and cruel.
But it is.
This is a picture of Montana state senator Kerri Seekins-Crowe.
This is the face of bigotry.
This is the face of intolerance.
She sponsored state legislation to ban gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors.
Even though she has a transgendered daughter who has suicide ideation.
Her words, not mine:
One of the big issues that we have heard today and we've talked about lately is that without surgery the risk of suicide goes way up. Well, I am one of those parents who lived with a daughter who was suicidal for three years. Someone once asked me, 'Wouldn't I just do anything to help save her?' And I really had to think and the answer was, 'No.'"
"I was not going to give into her emotional manipulation because she was incapable of making those decisions and I had to make those decisions for her."
"I was not going to let her tear apart my family and I was not going to let her tear apart me because I had to be strong for her, I had to have a vision for her life when she had none, was incapable of having none."
Seekins-Crowe continued that she
"spent hours on the floor in prayer because I didn't know that when I woke up, if my daughter was going to be alive or not. But I knew that I had to make those right decisions for her so that she would have a precious, successful adulthood at that time."
She believes that her daughter is going to have “a precious successful adulthood.”
If she just gives up the idea that she’s the wrong gender.
Her daughter is “emotionally manipulative” because she doesn’t feel comfortable in her own skin.
How cruel and evil do you have to be to not only parent this way, but attempt to legislate her views upon others?
God forbid that her daughter hurts herself.
God forbid that this woman’s inability to love her child where she is leads to personal tragedy, or tragedy in other families in Montana.
Look at this face.
This is the face of selfishness.
The face of hatred.
The face of loathing.
The face of neighbors, relatives, friends.
And sadly
What some of us see when we look in the mirror.