formally charged in court next week. i want to bring in my next guest, lauren huff, author of leaving isn t the hardest thing. thank you for joining us on this. i really appreciate it. i know you wrote a piece for the new york times. i want to read a piece of it for folks. the piece is titled, this holiday i m going to a gay bar. you write this, they tell us not to flaunted. they tell us not to shove it in their faces. they tell us not to talk about it. they tell us everything would be fine if we d just keep it behind closed doors. however, as you well know, and we all know well now, this shooter launched and themselves through the closed doors and took five lives. how important is it to do what you are vowing to do? i don t think we have a choice. i mean, this is nothing new. we ve done this before.
Sandra Newman, from New York, has received a deluge of negative reviews on Goodreads over her new novel The Men, with many branding her plot transphobic .