But theologically there is more, and I apologize for it taking me so long to frame this point: from the Void, from the Stillness, from the All, stems multiplicity. I often preach that the cosmosphere, like a biosphere, needs diversity to remain healthy. Therefore, homogeneity should not be our goal. It should be clear by now that I have no interest in attending these rituals, and might even have trouble with some of their tenets, but I am not attacking the Dianics who want ciswomen only space within a larger, welcoming whole. I want there to be room among us for Gay Male Mysteries, for Women's Moon Blood rituals, Heterosexual Basket Weaving, Queer Gods rites, Heathen Blots, and our scholarly talks, workshops, and concerts. I want to walk the groves and halls with Thelemites, Heathens, Dianics, Hermeticists, and Wiccans and be able to share space even while sometimes vehemently disagreeing. This sort of interaction makes us stronger. We are not all the same, but in order to make a viable movement, and to grow as humans, we need interchange. We need to work together, even when we sometimes ask for separate space. That said, I do wonder what I would be feeling if this issue was about a different construct: race, rather than gender.
You see, the larger, welcoming whole is important. We need to interact from a base of respect. We need to be clear what our boundaries and beliefs are and why. And there needs to be a place for us all. It was not clear from the description of the ritual in question that only cisgendered women were welcome.
Let us fight with open hands and open hearts, and embrace each other as we will, whatever we call ourselves, however we express ourselves, whomever we may be, or are becoming.
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