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We are not all one nation yet

Shelli Critchlow (“We are all Americans, period,” May 23) says what all of us, I hope, would like to see. But we’re not there yet.

When speaking of LGBT visitors, she says, “ … we do not spend our lives trying to label everyone into separate groups.” Would it were so!

But it is not:

• This administration is steadily rolling back Obama-era nondiscrimination policies across the entire federal government – including health care, housing and the military.
• A proposed HUD rule would strip transgender protections at homeless shelters.