Texas Governor Demonizes Trans People as He Lets Covid Burn

Transgender scapegoating as political theater

James Finn
Prism & Pen
Published in
6 min readAug 16, 2021

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With Texas failing to contain a covid-19 surge that’s forcing hospitals to look outside the state for help, and with zero pediatric ICU beds left in Dallas, you’d think Texas Republicans would focus like lasers on correcting flawed public-health policies. Instead, as in Florida, the Texas…

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James Finn
Prism & Pen

James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.