You may have noticed lately that the gop is working overtime to make the lives of trans people more difficult than their lives already are. The gop wants to kick trans people out of bathrooms, sports. 31 states introduced legislation. The military. Doctors offices. Antitransgender health care. And trans women especially are under threat at all times. Was shot and killed on an east dallas street saturday morning. Then those of you who know all thats awful call trans people brave for putting up with it. Trans people dont want to have to be brave. They just want to be. This week we are talking to black trans women in dallas, texas, about trying to just be. Im back in dallas, yall. Yay while we often think about the black Trans Community being in big cities like l. A. And new york, we need to see that black trans folks are everywhere. Even in a state like texas, where 70 of the population identifies as christian, and not just Easter Christmas christian, megachurch christian. That is exactl
You may have noticed lately that the gop is working overtime to make the lives of trans people more difficult than their lives already are. The gop wants to kick trans people out of bathrooms, sports. 31 states introduced legislation. The military. Doctors offices. Antitransgender health care. And trans women especially are under threat at all times. Was shot and killed on an east dallas street saturday morning. Then those of you who know all thats awful call trans people brave for putting up with it. Trans people dont want to have to be brave. They just want to be. This week we are talking to black trans women in dallas, texas, about trying to just be. Im back in dallas, yall. Yay while we often think about the black Trans Community being in big cities like l. A. And new york, we need to see that black trans folks are everywhere. Even in a state like texas, where 70 of the population identifies as christian, and not just Easter Christmas christian, megachurch christian. That is exactl
have a version of christianity that is hetero-normative. and then you step in there and preach. does it always go well? is it ever a challenge? so at the beginning, it was a major challenge. i will say that i am very church trained, okay? oh, i can feel that. you speak the language fluently. yeah. so when i show up and i walk in, by the time i do the drop mic, it s like, when are you coming back? i ll be glad to come back because there are some people that want to learn. they want to take a closer look at that book. i don t believe the scripture was there to keep interpreting them to be the same. it allows us to be corrective. it allows us to be encouraged. it allows us to grow. you just invoked the bells. wow.
that is heteronormative. yeah. even if there s women ministers, they are still participating in the patriarchy. yeah. then you step in there and preach. does it always go well? is it ever a challenge? so at the beginning, it was a major challenge. i will say that i am very church-trained. i can feel that. you speak the language fluently. yeah. so when i show up and i walk in, by the time i do the drop mic, it s like, oh, when are you coming back? i ll be glad to come back because there are some people that want to learn. they want to take a closer look at that book. i don t believe those scrip turz was there for us to keep interpreting them the same. the scriptures allow us to be convicted. it allows us to be corrected. it allows us to be encouraged. it allows us to grow. you just invoked the bells. wow. you summoned up the holy