No, Ash’s personal identity has nothing to do with politics and no one must ever claim it does. My personal identity as a gay man under no circumstances reduces to politics. Neither does Ash’s identity. Ash is a 14 year-old high school student, a HUMAN BEING,| not a political ANYTHING.

Ash is working to unseat vile people who wrongly insist Ash reduces to politics and who refuse to allow teachers to let queer students know with a simple rainbow flag that they are safe.

The conservative Republican insistence that children like Ash are political is nothing short of revolting. Why on earth would you agree with their disgusting, deeply immoral, and stupidly ignorant claim?