CW: Possible transphobia?? i feel like yes but I may be overreacting
I’ve posted about my ex-friend, Maxine. She went from a slightly rude, loud girl I dated who quoted movies and memes to a straight Christian girl who wants a Christian husband. At one point, she questioned being trans.
She kept talking about how kids shouldn’t even socially transition and how people shouldn’t take hormones. She also kept talking about how being gay for her was a phase, that she regretted being gay/trans, and how she repented for it.
The “Christian” label makes it sound like like some new age conversion therapy.
They don’t call it conversion therapy anymore but it is for sure still going on all over.
Yup. Wanting to abuse/neglect children because they’re trans seems pretty unambiguously transphobic to me.
Christian
Yes. I mean look, “not all Christians”, for sure. But it’s not a good indicator. Then you say she repented for being trans. One does not repent for what one does not see as a sin. Personally I’m over giving Christians the benefit of the doubt. If you think someone deserves infinite suffering for anything (which IS what you believe if you are Christian, even if you don’t want to admit it), then you’re basically a huge idiot or a huge asshole, or most likely both.
Amen.
I would lowkey say yeah. 🥲 🥲
High key yeah
I wouldn’t saying trans-phobic because real phobias are stigmatized enough already, and the word removes agency from transmisia/anti-trans. But yes this isn’t a goof thing to say it sounds like they have a lot of internalised hatred toward themself and are using christianity to “escape” their deep shame of themself. But thats not to direct all blame away from christianity here, lv 20:13 straight up commands the genocide of gay israelites, and the only reason yahweh the all loving all forgiving god doesn’t command death for gay people today is because jesus took the death punishment on gay peoples behalf.
