The Complicity of Silence and The Haters Who Threaten My Transgender Child

Michelle Baade
4 min readFeb 8, 2019

I opened my Instagram last night and found a comment telling me that I should kill my child because she’s transgender.

My body went cold as if someone has said this to my face. Before I could fully process anything (because Instagram is the fluffy baby kitten of social media sites and nothing bad happens there) another threatening…

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Michelle Baade

Truth-teller. Writer. Photographer. Banjo/guitar/ukulele player. Mom to four kids, one is transgender. Married to my favorite person. www.michellerothwrites.com