Transgenderism Turns the World Upside Down
While reading Jessica Hart Steinmann and Leigh Ann O'Neill's op-ed 'Transgenderism Won't Let Girls Say No' (June 6), I was reminded of a 17th-century English ditty:
'If buttercups buzz'd after the bee, if boats were on land, churches on sea; if ponies rode men and if grass ate the cows, and cats should be chased into holes by the mouse; if the mamas sold their babies to the gypsies for half a crown; if summer were spring and the other way round, then all the world would be upside down.'
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Transgenderism Turns the World Upside Down
While reading Jessica Hart Steinmann and Leigh Ann O'Neill's op-ed 'Transgenderism Won't Let Girls Say No' (June 6), I was reminded of a 17th-century English ditty: 'If buttercups buzz'd after the bee, if boats were on land, churches on sea; if ponies rode men and if grass ate the cows, and cats should be chased into holes by the mouse; if the mamas sold their babies to the gypsies for half a crown; if summer were spring and the other way round, then all the world would be upside down.'
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