"I'm not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner."
— Janet Mock, Redefining Realness (Atria, 2014)

The DOJ has set the table. They serve "religious liberty" as the entrée and ask us to call our protections being eaten in front of us a meal.

Mock's refusal is the one a Black trans woman has had to make every morning of her public life: I will not pretend this is a place set for me.

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