This is deeply upsetting, especially coming from our nation’s highest-ranking health official.
Individuals with autism are family, neighbors, students, and coworkers and they contribute more to this nation than this man ever will.
NEW: A mother and her three school-aged children detained by ICE/CBP on March 27 in Sackets Harbor, NY, have been RELEASED after an outpouring of anger from locals in northern New York
No matter what happens, it saddens me deeply that rape, felonies, trying to overthrow our democracy, misogyny, racism and transphobia are somehow not deal breaks for 10’s of millions of Americans.
Michael Phelps is literally referred to as a freak of nature because of his disproportionate wingspan, double jointed ankles, lung capacity twice that of an average human, body that produces half the lactic acid of a typical athlete, and he is rightly celebrated for being the greatest male swimmer in history. Meanwhile, female athletes with genetic differences are legally discriminated against and harassed to no end. This is not about “protecting women in sports” - this is about protecting a very specific idea of what a woman is.