Yesterday my mom got stuck at a red light in the turning lane at that intersection they protest at (5th and Cliffe) so she was right beside them. She reads their signs and one of the guys notices and holds his sign up (it says something about puberty blockers) and is trying to get her to agree with him. She gives him a frown and shakes her head no. He starts yelling at her so she rolls down her passenger side window to hear what nonsense he’s spitting. He’s yelling stuff like “MEN CANT GET PREGNANT” “NO MORE PUBERTY BLOCKERS”. She gives him a big shrug 🤷🏻‍♀️ to say “I don’t gaf” and his eyes went big and he got pissed off and started to yell some more.

She starts to roll her window up and then a lady from the other side of the road who’s with them runs across one lane of traffic and throws a flyer into my mom’s car. And she didn’t just toss it in, she REACHES her arm into my mom’s car and drops it on the empty passenger seat while my mom’s trying to roll up her window. Then the girl runs back to the sidewalk. My mom reaches over and grabs it, crumples it up, and throws it right back out her window. The people on the sidewalk start yelling “SHE TOSSED IT SHE THREW IT OUT OF HER CAR” blah blah blah

They started off with protesting Covid and “wanting our freedom” and I guess since that got old they needed to find something else to bitch about. So now they’re yelling about trans people on the damn sidewalks. Saying stuff like “ban puberty blockers” and “men can’t get pregnant”

At what point does it go from free speech to harassment? I feel like yelling at people and reaching into their vehicles to throw stuff into them when they’ve already expressed they aren’t interested crosses that line. Especially when the topic of discussion is protesting a marginalized groups freedoms and rights.

They’re lucky my mom isn’t super confrontational. Because if someone REACHED THEIR HAND/ARM into MY vehicle after they’ve already been yelling shit outside and I’ve made it clear I’m not at all interested in any of it, I’m seeing it as a threat and acting accordingly.