Trans Talk on Yik Yak | being trans and Christian shouldn't require me to give a 20 page essay on how I can do both every time I enter a queer space. I don't get that questions in Christian spaces, why do y'all care? 🙄

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Trans Talk 1d

being trans and Christian shouldn't require me to give a 20 page essay on how I can do both every time I enter a queer space. I don't get that questions in Christian spaces, why do y'all care? 🙄

Anonymous 1d

because a lot of us have been extremely hurt by christianity in a way that is not true in reverse

Anonymous 1d

people can see it as a dissonance considering how we’re oppressed as trans people in a Christian nationalist society, which imo makes sense depending on if you still ascribe to organized religion - former trans Christian

Anonymous 17h

let’s be real here people hurt people and it’s christian people that have perpetuated a cycle of harm that goes back a long long time and a lot of queer spaces exclude christians for that reason even if there are progressive sects because at the end of the day we do not belong everywhere and some communities are not open to everybody

Anonymous 16h

my lesbian pastor and her wife that got arrested protesting ice and that welcomedn three trans people into our clergy?

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Anonymous

#2 1d

it’s still not anyone’s business tbh, people are way too comfortable asking personal questions about one’s identity online (queer, religious, or otherwise)

Anonymous

#2 1d

but there are dozens of progressive denominations and we're not all the evangelicals or conservative. I'm just tired of explaining it and it makes me feel unwelcome in so many queer spaces online and offline because it feels like I have to justify being both and even if I do it sometimes feels like they just think I'm too indoctrinated to be trusted

Anonymous

OP 1d

that’s a fair frustration—honestly just say it’s not their business if they ask, since it simply isn’t. fyi, I’m not saying you can’t be part of organized religion & be trans, just pointing out the common line of thought

Anonymous 1d

No, it isn't ♥️

Anonymous 1d

much like how trans people or queer people are not a monolith, Christians are not a monolith.

Anonymous 1d

so yeah thanks for reaffirming I'm not welcome in another queer space

Anonymous 1d

There’s nothing about trans people in the Bible. The concept of “trans” as we view it today did not exist when the biblical texts were written, and thus the Bible does not speak on it. Modern religious-based trans opposition is interpretive rather than definitive. Some *Christians* are opposed to the existence of trans people — *Christianity* is not.

Anonymous

#5 17h

queer space has always been highly privileged and protected in my eyes

Anonymous

OP 16h

oop that was a reply to #3

Anonymous

#5 12h

So why should I bother trying to be part of the queer community then? What's the point when one belief is enough to completely ignore everything else that I do or am? It's sad, because I want to connect with other queer people. I'm one of you, I experience the same bs, and I fight for the same things, but one belief and suddenly I'm other. I'm probably giving up on queer spaces, because it isn't worth the headache.