Fight, yes, but it’s important to choose your battles.

Rep McBride is in a very precarious position. Flailing at every injustice is not going to serve her, her constituents, or the trans community at large well in the long term.

This is a lesson that the larger trans community needs to learn, and fast: strategic, creative political action that captures attention, makes the public consider our viewpoints and doesn’t harm the people we’re trying to talk to is the way forward. You don’t do that by blocking highways or burning storefronts.

We start by organizing.