Rush Limbaugh was OUTRAGED that US military performed transgender surgeries, in 1989

The government was conning people into gender reassignment, he'd proclaim 

Because I don't watch TV, I woke up this AM wondering why "transgender reassignment" was in the words popping out of news pundits’ mouths, then learned trump had been running ads on Sunday football channels yesterday, with more fearmongering, now that Kamala Harris is coming for your child’s genitals…

Wait wait wait.

In 1989 I had a job where I had to take one bus to drop off Lizzie at daycare, then Walk Forty Minutes to another bus that took me to work in the next town. I did that five days a week, yay for the life of a single mom…

With talk radio playing in my earphones, I got healthy post-partum on those wobbly exurban roads of Arcata.

Rush Limbaugh got me through it.

He was New then. And he was funny and outrageous in a way that I've been since the Vietnam war era, irreverent; he was saying lots of stuff that I agreed with.

Rush was OUTRAGED that our military performed transgender surgery and reassignment care on its personnel, and he'd go on and on and on about it.

Let's see. My  daughter was born in July 1988, we moved to Arcata right after, I got a job fast, it couldn't have been later than 1990, Rush went on and on and-

I ended up believing that the US medical industrial complex was conning people into gender reassignment… Then Limbaugh went from irreverent to hateful and I stopped listening to him. 

Meanwhile, in 1989 Kamala Harris was 25 years old...