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Trans youth are loved and valued.

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That's funny, seeing as you supported the Ancient Order of Hibernians when they banned the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization from participating in the St. Patrick's Day Parade in NYC. I guess you've changed your mind now??

Also noteworthy: The irony of a group of conservative Catholic Irish *Americans* deciding that queer Irish immigrants in NY did not have the right to participate in the St. Patrick's Day parade, like they were the arbiters of Irishness.

At the same time in Ireland, there was no problem allowing a lesbian/gay contingent in the St. Patrick's Day parade. I marched with them in Dublin their first year, which was 1993. But the ACLU in their wisdom thought it important to defend the bigots' first amendment rights to exclude Irish LGBTQ+.