Lovely article, Billie! I will need to examine my thinking. I think I started with a disability model, but hope I am coming to the Diversity model. Articles like this truly help.
Thank you so much. And I actually think the disability model is the most common on-ramp for people (it was for me as well) so it has that going for it. Maybe we can stay it's a terrific wayside inn but a terrible home.
That makes sense. I was also coming at it from the perspective that the Bible says *nothing* against being transgender, and those who say it does are really stretching, and using totally different interpretive methods than they do for anything else. So I take issue with a guy who thinks affirming trans folks is contrary to his faith. But I did liken it to not allowing folks to color their hair or wear corrective lenses -- and that's not maybe the best analogy - though it does show how their Biblical interpretation falls short. (I was attending a church that said it's okay to have gender dysphoria, but you can't change your body because of it and change what God has made. Which is a ridiculous stance because of all the ways people change their bodies.) Anyway, with this framework, sounds like they were half-heartedly leaning toward the disability stance. But you've given me good food for thought for moving on.
Lovely article, Billie! I will need to examine my thinking. I think I started with a disability model, but hope I am coming to the Diversity model. Articles like this truly help.
Thank you so much. And I actually think the disability model is the most common on-ramp for people (it was for me as well) so it has that going for it. Maybe we can stay it's a terrific wayside inn but a terrible home.
That makes sense. I was also coming at it from the perspective that the Bible says *nothing* against being transgender, and those who say it does are really stretching, and using totally different interpretive methods than they do for anything else. So I take issue with a guy who thinks affirming trans folks is contrary to his faith. But I did liken it to not allowing folks to color their hair or wear corrective lenses -- and that's not maybe the best analogy - though it does show how their Biblical interpretation falls short. (I was attending a church that said it's okay to have gender dysphoria, but you can't change your body because of it and change what God has made. Which is a ridiculous stance because of all the ways people change their bodies.) Anyway, with this framework, sounds like they were half-heartedly leaning toward the disability stance. But you've given me good food for thought for moving on.
I am so glad. And thank you for the encouragement,