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Part II of My Faith is about something I struggled with for years: gender dysphoria and the image of God I had internalized.

A God of rituals. Rules. Punishment. Fear.

A God who supposedly created me, while somehow making my existence feel like a mistake.

Then this morning I saw a photograph from a Pride march. Someone was holding a sign:

“I am queer. God loves me. He never made a mistake. I am.”

That sentence stopped me.

Maybe the problem wasn’t that God made me wrong.

Maybe I had been taught that I was wrong.

This is the second part of my personal journey through faith, gender and identity. Watch My Faith: https://youtu.be/fnynm7zqblY?is=yKzX6FHmOpOpkaFv

#MyFaith #TransFaith #QueerFaith #GenderDysphoria #TransWoman

My latest "Trans Lucent" column for Pride Source went live this week. Here is a link to it if you care to give it a read:

https://pridesource.com/article/trans-lucent-aug-2026

I believe that the trans community needs to reclaim its definition from its cis psychological roots. The term "transgender" was originally created circa 1923 by a German sexologist to describe “the preliminary stages of hermaphroditism.”

Furthermore, the prefix "trans" indicates we are changing from one form into another. In reality, we are not. We are simply affirming the gender we have always been.

Anyway, my column goes into more depth and I hope you check it out.

--- 𝓐𝓷𝓷𝓲 𝓐𝓻𝓫𝓸𝓾𝓻 🏳️‍⚧️

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