A 13-Year-Old Put This Homophobic Ex-Virginia Lawmaker to Shame
From the continuing culture wars, a true hero arose this week in the person of 13-year-of Hazel Herring of Virginia.
And in so doing Hazel put to shame Dick Black, a former Virginia state legislator and longtime perpetrator of homophobia who seemed to have receded from public life only to roar back on Tuesday at a public hearing on the Loudoun County School Board’s policies regarding transgender rights and racial equality.
Hazel’s 10-year-old brother is transgender and has already suffered torments ranging from being called a sinner to having other kids inform him that the school bus is “only for boys and girls.” And Hazel was determined to join her parents in speaking at the hearing on Tuesday.