Easter and "Transgender Day of Visibility"

"Transgender day of visibility" is a dumb idea associated with irrationalist, pseudoscientific, cultish gender ideology. It is, pretty much without doubt, the dumbest idea adopted by any major political faction in my lifetime. It makes Iraqi WMDs look positively reasonable.

   The right is all bent out of shape because it fell on Easter this year.

   They're saying that it's something like an intentional slight by Biden, who--unsurprisingly--made a statement endorsing/supporting TDV.

   Look: we're a secular republic. We don't clear the calendar for religious holidays. That's going to mean that conflicts like this happen. Anyway, this is basically a conflict between two religious holidays. Easter is explicitly religious, as it is the pivotal holiday of an explicitly religious view. "Transgender day of visibility" is a holiday (or something like a holiday) of a covert religion--a religion that masquerades as a liberal view based on science. Anyway: the state can recognize both, but can't endorse either. This is for the two religions to fight out.

   Perhaps more importantly: Biden is just acknowledging TDV as, I'm sure, he acknowledged Easter. This is not some plot to eclipse Easter.

   And: if you're going to have an annual holiday fixed to a date around this time of year, then it's going to occasionally fall on the same day as Easter, a moveable feast. 

   How often?

   Well, I read somewhere (but am too lazy to go back and get the link) that Easter fell on 3/31 ten times in the 20th century (it won't fall on that date the same number of times every century, though). Though I'm not going to do it, I'm sure that Easter also ends up falling on like fifty other dumb days recognized by Congress--national doughnut day, national John Deere day, national clean our your closet day, etc.

   Anyway.

   At this point, I'm basically ok with any rhetorical strategy that dings the Dems. But it's still dumb.