All analogies limp.

That being said and with my accepting that, and also accepting that as much as they limp they do make connections and, perhaps, present another way to view a thing, remember the joy and relief felt when Joe Biden freed the present generation of youth from their education loan sharking debts and they could move on with their lives to build a future as opposed spending their future paying off the loan and being saddled to the past?

They did not design or have any input into the way loans for college are handled. They had to deal with the system that existed or go without, a system that insisted they attend college with no guarantee they would ever enter the career that they had paid to be prepared for.

Consider the feeling, then, when, after getting used to the idea that the burden no longer existed, that all changed so that starting on September first as the month begins so does the restart of paying off of those loans.

Society had placed a burden on students, a burden with which they had to deal. When the unfairness of  it was made all too clear and it was seen how wrong that system of compounding debt was, steps were taken to right that wrong, only to have its promise yanked back and the bill once again due.

Now, 

Consider being in high school and discovering who you really are as opposed to how well you are living up to the expectations of others which are based on both good and bad biases when, after years of their being educated, the school district’s board adds you to the list of those protected in district policy because assuming every person related to the school district would know that policies dealt with all students regardless of personal, political and/or religious beliefs was shown to have been an erroneous assumption and now there would be no question.

You, as a Trans student, now had all the protections that other students had and, therefore, the ability and procedures to address any wrongs.

You had rights.

You had rights equal to every other student in that school including the traditionally favored ones.

Those rights, however, are being swiftly repealed for political reasons so that it was only for a while that Transgender students had the same protections as all the others in those districts who had accepted that they had more to learn and did so when it came to gender identity and expression.

Granted it is not the same thing, but every person paying off a student loan who thought they had cut a break knows to a degree how the Trans students were affected, and with the added burden that they lost the loan forgiveness too.

That is why the younger people have to step forward and straighten things out in the non-sexual orientation sense. I am a Boomer. I lived with the other Boomers all my life. What seems to be new about the old guys who run the country to the younger generation has been the experience of my generation with them. They are the jerks we grew up with and generally worked assiduously against to prevent them from screwing things up.

We tried.

There are some real jerks among us and they are the ones from elementary school who snitched on other kids and reminded the teacher about the quiz that had apparently slipped her mind.

The “narcs” in high school.

That girl in Theodore Cleavers classroom who sat near Whitey.

I spent my adult life as did many of us trying to keep these people under control as we fought for social justice for all. You think they drive you nuts? You are new with them. Like I said, it has been a lifetime for some of us.

So when your Trans brothers and sisters are being attacked and their rights taken away, remember how you felt when you lost what you thought was your new future without life strangling debt, only to have that reversed, and help them out. 

And while railing against the loss of your ephemeral possible future where what you earned stayed mostly with you for you future uses, add to that also losing the rights you had recently won because some old guys think the old ways need to be brought back and the young’ens need to larn the lesson.

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