Brave Texas Christians Risk Everything to Support Trans Kids
I read a story yesterday that made my heart sing, that thrilled me and filled me with positivity. A Christian church in the Dallas area has launched a resistance network to care for transgender teenagers the Texas government is persecuting.
Those resistance leaders, who are risking arrest and imprisonment, remind me of my youth, of my former Christian idealism, and of the very best impulses of Christianity and Jesus followers — even though I’m a gay man and queer advocate who often feels persecuted by Christianity.
If you’re confused, don’t worry. So am I. Before I tell you about that resistance network, I have to tell you about falling in love when I was 14.
Iwill never forget the missionary boy who made my heart sing. I was just about to start high school, and, wow, was I ever conflicted. I had long known I was gay, but I was a devoted Christian who had totally internalized hateful Christian doctrines about myself.
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