when I was doing community organizing last year with Oregon Catholics pushing back against our archbishop’s shitty transphobic new school policy, a huge percentage of responses were like “I’m a grandma of 6 and I’m not sure I get all this stuff but I know every kid deserves to feel safe in school”
so much of the pronoun bullshit is just people being angry at being asked to treat others with a basic level of respect
you don't have to understand gender dysphoria or being nonbinary or neopronouns to just... respect people's wishes about how they want to be addressed
by the way if anyone needs, like, Jesus-centric language to try and get through to the “not sure about this whole gender thing but also not a soulless asshole” crowd in your own life, take anything from here that helps you docs.google.com/document/d/1...
it is very important to me to know when it’s the right time to shut up and let trans people do the talking and when it’s the right time to be like “it’s okay besties, I’ve got this one”
“Transgender youth with at least one adult in their life who affirmed their identity - a parent, teacher, family member, or other adult - had 39% lower odds of attempting suicide in the past year than their peers who were not accepted”
Love really is the answer, sometimes. Or at least part of it
Oh, my God, they're comparing the rate of suicidality among transgender people receiving gender-affirming care to the *general population*, rather than to transgender people who don't receive gender-affirming care, and then trying to pretend they care about *science*?
I did a whole PowerPoint on that for my church’s adult education series! there were so many gender-nonconforming saints! I mean that’s how they got Joan of Arc; she was arrested with a long list of treasonous crimes but the charge they made stick was “refused to wear girl clothes when ordered to”
