You know, if the Burlington Republican Committee wasn’t a bunch of hateful fuckers, I might feel a little bit sorry for them. They went to all the trouble of writing a painfully detailed resolution denying the very existence of transgender folk and complaining of bathroom incursions by people posing as trans, “authoritarian censorship” of their views on gender, “an alarming increase in violent attacks” on people such as themselves… and oh, so many other things. There’s a grand total of 17 “Whereases” and seven “Be It Resolveds.” It has the distractingly busy look of a Dr. Bronner’s Soap label.

The resolution was first reported on June 23 by Guy “Scoop” Page at the Vermont Daily Chronicle.

The Committee burped out this thing on… April 25. And then sent it to Mayor Miro Weinberger and the Burlington City Council.

Yikes. All that hard work, all that hatred spewed onto a single crowded page, and nobody noticed for almost two months.

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