If 'Trans Women Are Women' Then Rope Loops Are Nooses

In which I apologize to a very good boy

File photo of Mayor Farber’s endgame in Port Townsend, WA

DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS: Readers, I apologize. I try to be ruthlessly fact-based around here.

We live in a world of disinformation and half-truths, mostly by accident, because everyone is reporting at a remove, so extra care and consideration is required when covering politically explosive events.

For instance, I am in Alabama responding to a firehose of information from Port Townsend, Washington, where a rabid crowd of gender cultists assailed a group of women trying to hold a press conference on Monday.

The women were supporting Julie Jaman, an 80 year-old woman who was banned from her city pool, which is managed by the YMCA, after she refused to shower or change in front of a man.

Mayor of Port Townsend, WA Gloats After Silencing Uppity Women with a Violent Mob

After further video analysis, it is time to clarify that the anonymous man with the noose-like rope was in fact holding a dog leash when he helped “kettle…