Come, Let us Reason Together

The right-wing trans panic is obviously harmful to trans people. As I have said, you don’t have to like anyone but that doesn’t mean you can violate their rights. It’s that simple.

Now in order to enforce their genital-obsessed legislation, the right-wing, which has an obvious sexual assault problem (Epstein, cough cough) will have to start inspecting people’s genitalia. CHILDREN’S even.

Hatred is a hell of a drug. And if any politician lays a finger on anyone I know, they will be dealt with in a more traditional manner than endless litigation.

“For queer bodies

Strange God, Thank you for reminding us it is okay to be incomprehensible—to be creatures of mystery and fluidity. Be near to us as we grieve the ways we’ve been pressured to conform to who others wish us to be. Renew us as we resist the temptation to perform an embodiment that isn’t true to us. But help us to have compassion for “ourselves when it seems as if enacting a charade is the only way to be safe and loved. Grant us an interior clarity that is unwavering in the face of transphobia and homophobia, that we might withstand every critique and dismissal, the overt and the passive-aggressive. Help us to travel into those stories of feeling alienated in our own bodies and return back to ourselves with dignity crying out from every bone. We reject the lie that our bodies are bad. We rebuke the lie that we are dirty. And we honor our truest voice, our self-knowledge as central to our own making and remaking. Against hope, we have found a way to hear the truth of us amid the vitriol of this world. May these queer bodies be a beacon to a world in bondage to its own binaries; may our flesh liberate the world into embodied attunement. Amen.”

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