{"id":2817,"date":"2023-04-20T17:59:40","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T22:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/alltexansnotsometexans\/?p=2817"},"modified":"2023-04-21T15:31:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T20:31:15","slug":"calling-on-the-religious-left-to-protect-trans-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/alltexansnotsometexans\/2023\/04\/calling-on-the-religious-left-to-protect-trans-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Calling on the Religious Left to Protect Trans Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Forgive me for my anger, but I am not mincing words now. I\u2019m calling on all people, especially the collective Religious Left, to fight for the lives, health, and well-being of transgender youth, especially in states like Texas, Florida, and Ohio. I am also calling on the Religious Left to put the Religious Right in their place which should be in a position of sitting down and shutting up for the first time in American history.\u00a0 The Religious Right is not the majority of Americans or Christians.<\/p>\n<p>Again, I will define the Religious Right as a small group of mostly white Christians who are bedfellows with the Republican party. They seek to control others and win elections by any unethical means possible no matter how deadly.\u00a0 Yet, they call themselves, \u201cPro-life Christians.\u201d The Religious Right thinks they are higher and mightier than everyone who is not white, straight, Republican, neurotypical, \u201cChristian,\u201d and healthy. The Religious Right is terrorizing these innocent families and their transgender children because they deny science, and they expect everyone else to deny science. They are largely responsible for the inflated number of COVID deaths because they refused to get vaccinated or wear masks as acts of decency and basic humanity.\u00a0 \u00a0The Religious Right wants to declare \u201ca pure fascist\u201d America just like Hitler.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, many parents of transgender children from all over the country are moving to other states and even out of the country because of anti-trans laws that we all can see in plain view. Many who do not understand science are politically weaponizing legislation to harm and endanger LGBTQIA+ youth and their families, especially transgender youth. These youth are being denied potentially life-saving medical care.\u00a0 These families are not safe in their own communities and home states because they are political refugees.<\/p>\n<p>I believe that God created science, and it has deadly consequences for not honoring it, especially in the case of transgender youth. The Religious Right thinks it\u2019s their job to tell others which books to read, which medications to take, which words others are allowed to say, what others are allowed to learn, what medical decisions others are allowed to make, and who others are allowed to marry or love.\u00a0 Domination, colonization, weaponization, deprivation, deportation, starvation, and extinction of who Jesus called \u201cThe Least of These\u201d are their values when they should be doing unto others as they would have done unto themselves.<\/p>\n<p>All Lefty Religious, please stand behind and protect trans youth and their families because they are innocently trying to exist, follow science, follow their doctors\u2019 orders, and take care of their families. Get behind them and let them know that God is on their side. These whitewash tomb Pharisees think they are higher and mightier than everyone else.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2820\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/1519\/2023\/04\/Protect-trans-kids-bear-300x295.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"295\"><\/p>\n<p>Mess with the cubs = mess with the Mamabears!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forgive me for my anger, but I am not mincing words now. I\u2019m calling on all people, especially the collective Religious Left, to fight for the lives, health, and well-being of transgender youth, especially in states like Texas, Florida, and Ohio. 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