I am so tired and also so stupid that even after reading your comment I still didn’t get it. And then finally it clicked based on what you wrote.

Sigh.

And don’t forget conflating trans people and drag queens.

Ever do a drag show? Even if you’re cishet?

Sorry, you’re trans now.

Please keep telling me there’s no genocide of queer people in America. I hear that on Lemmy regularly these days.

Just for transparency’s sake before I go into this, my wife is second from the top at the library.

The library here really did have to remove benches outside in a couple of places (in part) because of homeless people. Not because they were sleeping on them, there are other places outside the library where the homeless can sleep and the library does what it can to help the local homeless community.

Unfortunately, some (far, far from most) of the local homeless around the library were either very publicly using drugs or getting so fucked up on those drugs (or possibly just having a really bad mental illness episode) that they were harassing people and scaring kids. So when it came time to replace all of the benches since they got too old, they decided that they would not replace some of them.

There was definitely a big outcry about how the library was being anti-homeless, but it was nuts because there were people on the other side still complaining about how the library always stinks because they let the homeless people in there. I may be biased because of my wife, but I’m also a regular patron and I’m pretty much on their side on this one. It was becoming a huge issue and they really didn’t want to keep getting the cops involved because they rightfully don’t trust what the cops might do with the homeless and only end up calling them as a last resort.

Society has absolutely failed those people though. There is no question about that. But at some point, the library had to draw a line at how accommodating they could be.