Some Interlibrary Loan GOLD.

Mezey, Susan Gluck. Transgender Rights: From Obama to Trump. New York: Routledge, 2020.

I’ve been taking a lot of books out from the library. Everything I can get my hands on about trans stuff.

Okay, I’ve been taking a lot of books out from the library through interlibrary loan for the past five or so years. The librarians know me.

I pride myself on being a pretty tenacious reader.But this volume is impenetrable.

Because it deals with the written law in all its minutiae.

Hello! Today I’m worried I’ll accidentally get blinded by the solar eclipse. Where do I get the glasses to look straight at the sun with? Why does this feel like an apocalypse?

Books moor me.

Despite the volume’s inscrutable law language, this single sentence in Mezey’s preface says it all.

“On a personal note, I am puzzled about the energy devoted to the efforts to undermine the rights of this small groups of Americans who mostly want to be left alone and live their lives free of discrimination.”

“On a personal note . . . .”

I love that.