you really went into some deep reporting for the story an when working on it for a lon time what did you find that clearly troubled you so as you wrote the piece? well, i sent out in the beginning i wanted t understand how to break th fever and a very early on in m reporting it became clear that this isn t something that sort of conditions that make society vulnerable to politica violence aren t the ones tha go away easily or quickly. it became it clear to me tha this was really a generation o generations along thing that w are in and then from there, it became a question of how do we avoi frankly further bloodshed. so the disturbing quality think, i mean there are a lo of disturbing things about this, but this how do you endure without further bloodshed. and then this question of ho do you also get through this a a society without government overreach? in some cases, when you look t the past, there s a lot of cases of a civil liberties being infringed on as a way of
legislators, and this is happening, again, part of the playbook for republicans across other state legislatures. leyla, thank you very much. and i want to go now to founder of the group moms for liberty, and the florida state senator, a former high school chemistry teacher, and the first openly gay man to serve in the florida state senate. so thanks to both of you for having this conversation. because people are having this conversation around the country. and right now of course is the focus is on florida. florida republicans, in these bills, would ban the use of pronouns in school that aren t the ones that a child was identified at birth with. i guess the basic question, to understand from your point of view, is why do you think this is something that is worth legislating? because schools have violated parental rights all over the state of florida and around the country in this area. they have allowed students under the age of 18 as young as 11 and 12 select their pronouns withou