Fear keeps us from learning about each other

There is a lot of talk, some of it emotionally charged, these days about where people are allowed to go to the bathroom.

This talk is focused on transgender individuals, people who are born physically of one sex yet identify as the other. It’s a confusing subject since most of us likely don’t know anyone who is transgender. Because of that, it’s a subject where fear can have a heavy influence.

None of us on the Cheney Free Press editorial board knows someone who is transgender. Some of us have been in the proximity of people who are transvestites, but the two are not related.

Some of us on the...