22-06-2015, 10:28 PM
I have about 100 Facebook friends and most could be classified as conservative, Christian, fundamentalists to some degree or another. That, by the way, is the group I USED to run with until being transgender slapped me in the face! Karma right? So, to answer your question Lenneth, 3-4 dude's I know are having a lot of fun at Caitlyn's expense. For example, one posted a picture of a puppy with the caption, "BRUCE Jenner's cat". While they aren't hateful comments, they're certainly full of condescension and ridicule. I'm not out 100%, and certainly not on Facebook, so I've been biting my tongue ...very hard! Everyone in my workplace knows about me so if they had negative things to say, which I don't think any of them do, they wouldn't mention them in my presence.
Our Church (fundamental, conservative & evangelical) announced shortly after the Diane Sawyer interview, that the elder board was going to craft a "transgender position statement", probably in response to all the people calling the office asking, "what are we supposed to think of this?" Who knows what their presuppositions are. Perhaps they WANT to be OK with Caitlyn but are checking to see what the, "Church says". Perhaps they are bigots who want the church to support their opposition. Either way, I think it's a shame they can't figure out their own opinion without consulting 12 cis gendered males and a predominantly male gendered pastoral team. I'm all but certain the statement will read something like this, "It's OK to have transgender feelings, just don't do anything about it (hormones, surgery, dressing etc)." I was going to fight it but gave up because it caused me too much stress at a time when I have enough battles to fight with my own personal coming out.
Our Church (fundamental, conservative & evangelical) announced shortly after the Diane Sawyer interview, that the elder board was going to craft a "transgender position statement", probably in response to all the people calling the office asking, "what are we supposed to think of this?" Who knows what their presuppositions are. Perhaps they WANT to be OK with Caitlyn but are checking to see what the, "Church says". Perhaps they are bigots who want the church to support their opposition. Either way, I think it's a shame they can't figure out their own opinion without consulting 12 cis gendered males and a predominantly male gendered pastoral team. I'm all but certain the statement will read something like this, "It's OK to have transgender feelings, just don't do anything about it (hormones, surgery, dressing etc)." I was going to fight it but gave up because it caused me too much stress at a time when I have enough battles to fight with my own personal coming out.