Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness

Garth Brooks welcomes trans people, tells a-holes to get out of his bar.

My brother and my best friend were obsessed with Garth Brooks when we were in middle school, so I'd still quite happily never hear one of his songs again. But that's not the point: the point is no one, transphobe or not, gets to claim that the wave of legislative transphobia in the U.S. right now has the support of every famous person or every country-music type or every red state -- to take this kind of stand in Nashville means a lot when Tennessee has been passing some of the most sweeping transphobia (or trying to).