shychemist:
bi-trans-alliance:
Transitioning is a varied process that differs from individual to individual, so it doesn’t always involve surgery. But when it does, those surgeries might not be covered by insurance and are often expensive, which is why a Christian group is encouraging church members to donate to help transgender people with surgery costs.
Faithfully LGBT, an organization that seeks to share the stories of LGBTQ people of faith, has started a campaign called the Tithe Trans Campaign to raise money for the transgender community. The campaign takes its name from a practice in which some Christians donate a tenth of their earnings to the church.
Faithfully LGBT is collecting donations to send to the Jim Collins Foundation, a non-profit organization that raises money to provide grants to cover gender affirming surgeries.
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Direct link to the crowdfunding campaign:
Christians Give Your Tithe Towards Trans Surgeries
So far they’ve raised 5% of their goal of $10,000.
The cis/trans binary also furthers centralization and colonialism, assimilating and categorizing all identities outside of itself. Like all forms of representation, the cis/trans binary as an all-encompassing set of categories is both flattening and inadequate. There are genders
that are not cis but do not place themselves under the trans umbrella. Despite this, anyone who isn’t cis is assumed to be trans, and vice versa. An LGBTQ avant garde moves to assimilate all “unusual” genders, and even the lack of gender, into trans-ness. This leaves no room for anyone to fall outside of these categories. This often plays out in a colonial manner, rendering non-western genders legible to and manageable by western LGBTQ narratives of gender and sexuality.
—Against Gender, Against Society - nila nokizaru
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kittenesque:
ayellowbirds:
rritchiearts:
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Very well sums up my feelings on Pride With a Capital P, and why I cringe whenever I see a yellow = on a blue background.
thank you for reminding me that i’ve still got an hrc sticker on the car that used to be my mother’s. i’ve tried telling her that they’re shitty, but she’s shut me down every time, so, like my gender, i’ve just stopped talking about it, and she keeps supporting those fuckers
transgenderteensurvivalguide:
commongayboy:
#KnowYourHistory: #Stonewall
Jay says:
Some more accurate Stonewall history!
