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In addition to being judged for being a “sinner,” I’ve had a lot of people assume that when I was coming out, I was also renouncing my faith. I’ve had to explain over and over again that there are plenty of transgender and other queer Christians. I’ve had to tell people that no, me being trans doesn’t mean that I think God made a mistake. I don’t even want to think about all the people who have told me that they still love me, they just don’t support my decisions and that they know that this isn’t what God wants for my life. I’ve never understood this clearly what people mean when they say “love the sinner and hate the sin.” And it isn’t a good thing. They spend an awful lot of time focusing on the sin that they hate so much and not enough time focusing on the “sinner” that they’re supposed to be loving. I have no time for churchgoers who are going to judge me or tell me that I’m being a bad Christian for being who I am. I was taught that I am Wonderfully and Fearfully Made, and that means that my transgender body is wonderful and is exactly what God had in mind when They made me. In fact, that thought is one of the things that keeps me going in hard times. God created me to be transgender and queer, and so I have to remember, as the Bible says, if God is for me, who can be against me?
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snapsforcourtney asked:

Today was my first day of my Human Sexuality class and during discussion our professor revealed a new term-at least new to me anyway-that may come to replace LGBTQIA+. It is Gender and Sexual Minorities or GSM. I think its meant to be more inclusive as gender and sexuality are so broad and that really we can't designate a letter for everything, also probably just for the sake shortening the acronym ha. I was wondering what your opinion on it is bc personally I can't decide if I like it or not

“minority” is sort of a strange word, like it prioritizes relative quantity as the most distinctive similarity amongst the groups it hopes to include. plus what happens when we convert everybody into the homosexual lifestyle and then we’re the majority? WHAT THEN

to be honest i think sometimes we’d be better off looking at ways to recognize, respect and acknowledge our differences and, subsequently, our very different needs, than we would continuing to seek out new acronyms that will lump a bunch of human beings together in a manner convenient for politics or medicine or academia and then declare them a unified social justice movement. because some of those groups that need the most space to grow end up getting crammed into the shitty rooms on the sixth floor when what they really need is their own house next door to that house with the shitty rooms on the sixth floor, and we all need those houses to be in a really great neighborhood where everybody is really close and baby-sits each others kids and they have block parties. i miss block parties. anyhow, otherwise everybody just acts surprised to find out that often what we have in common is why we are hated and who hates us, rather than who we actually all are. i feel more and more like labels and label-policing is a short-cut that crushes nuance. i think that makes people assume they understand how [x] group feels just because they’re in the same acronym, and that makes people think they don’t have as much to learn about those other people as they really do. and i don’t think we need New Official Umbrella Terms to tell us who our allies are, who we care about and who needs our support and who we need to support us. i hope.