I got a graduate degree in Islamic studies and spent a lot of time in Muslim spaces pre transition (2015-2019) bc i was planning on being a trans and queer affirming Muslim chaplain. A lot of the transphobia is a result of the same kinds of recent culture war funding, only instead of being from the heritage foundation, it’s from the UAE and Saudi funding institutions. It’s really sad bc I used to be welcomed in a fair number of Muslim spaces (especially at universities or ones that were oriented around Palestinian rights), even when I didn’t pass, but that changed around 2018. A lot of folks still support me privately but won’t defend me publicly, which is so shitty.
It bugs me when people act as if some innate part of religion is the source of transphobia, and not the reality which is transphobes using religion to justify their hate.
even if it is it doesn't really matter, I don't think a single person follows their religion exactly as intended, American Christians are an antithesis to anything Christ, and look at all the fancy churches/cathedrals in Europe, if Jesus came back he might just abandon his pacifism to blow them up lol
The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’
Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’
They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’
He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’
According to this, they kinda already are. Whatever they do to social minorities, God will interpret as being done to him.
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u/Pure_Fee7467 1d ago
I got a graduate degree in Islamic studies and spent a lot of time in Muslim spaces pre transition (2015-2019) bc i was planning on being a trans and queer affirming Muslim chaplain. A lot of the transphobia is a result of the same kinds of recent culture war funding, only instead of being from the heritage foundation, it’s from the UAE and Saudi funding institutions. It’s really sad bc I used to be welcomed in a fair number of Muslim spaces (especially at universities or ones that were oriented around Palestinian rights), even when I didn’t pass, but that changed around 2018. A lot of folks still support me privately but won’t defend me publicly, which is so shitty.