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Uplifting News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months ago

Meet a Missouri dad who went from a ‘full-on bigot’ to fighting bathroom bans on behalf of his 16-year-old daughter: ‘When it was my child, it just flipped a switch’

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Meet a Missouri dad who went from a ‘full-on bigot’ to fighting bathroom bans on behalf of his 16-year-old daughter: ‘When it was my child, it just flipped a switch’

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Uplifting News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months ago

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Dusty Farr says “it’s uplifting when you can actually accept the way things are, and you’re not carrying that unfounded hate and unfounded disgust."

Better late than never! 🥳

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It’s always until it effects them personally.
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  Sometimes it isn’t. Many of us are disowned
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    Oh I know all too well.
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  What’s the saying? Better late than never?

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