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Category Archives: Gender confusion
Transgender Baptist pastor fired
In my teens I had a friend who was convinced that you could cure warts by rubbing them with a hazel branch and burying the branch in the garden. On a full moon. He swore by the remedy, pointing to his wart free hands as evidence.
Superstitions used to be, if not entirely plausible, at least romantically entertaining. Even if medieval alchemists never managed to find the philosophers’ stone and turn mercury into gold, at least it was believable enough to start JK Rowling on the path to becoming a billionairess. In a way, it worked.
21st Century superstitions are much sillier and less believable. Some people think you can turn a man into a woman. Even scientists – some of them – promote this, making science much sillier and less believable. For example:
Last month, the Rev. Junia Joplin told her Baptist congregation in a sermon about the importance of telling the truth without fear of the consequences. And then she revealed a secret truth of her own: She is a transgender woman.
It cost her the job.
On Monday, 111 members of the Lorne Park Baptist Church in Mississauga, Ontario, voted 58 to 53 to fire Ms. Joplin, who has been their pastor for six years, she said on Twitter.
“I came out as transgender in June, and I got fired in July,” Ms. Joplin said in an interview on Thursday. “But there are a lot of good people in that congregation who made their allyship known, and in some cases stuck their neck out, and it is frustrating this is the way it came out.”
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The Whole Ball of Wax acquires a new meaning
The Anglican Church of Canada is devoted to championing the marginalised in our society. Before anyone hastily jumps to the conclusion that the ACoC is against murdering babies in the womb, let me reassure your that they are not that prophetic. The ACoC prefers to campaign on behalf of LGBTQ (you can add any more characters, including special or numeric characters, that you like – it’s a bit like choosing a new password) individuals. The “T” for Transgender, is an interesting one. What would our learned bishops who, in addition to the L,Q,G and Bs, support and affirm the Ts because they are too cowardly not to, make of this?
From here:
There’s an important category in logic known as reductio ad absurdum, according to which you contradict an argument by showing that its general application will produce absurd results. It has been in my mind over the past fortnight or so, as I’ve followed a human-rights tribunal in British Columbia, Canada, and watched it deal with complaints made by trans woman Jessica Yaniv (or “Jonathan Yaniv”: The person apparently goes by both names) against three aestheticians. When it comes to the notion that “gender identity”—the self-declared, subjective feeling of being a man or woman—can reasonably be taken to trump biological sex in law and daily life, Yaniv presents us with a reductio ad absurdum on two legs.
For those who have not been following the case (which, oddly, has been covered by the international media, but mostly ignored by Canada’s own press), the details will sound unbelievable. Last year, Yaniv used social media to contact 16 female aestheticians in the Vancouver area, most working out of their own homes, who advertized Brazilian waxing—the removal of some or all of a woman’s pubic hair by applying and then yanking off strips of heated wax.
Sometimes, Yaniv would use the name Jonathan and a clearly male profile pic. Only then, upon being told that Brazilian waxing is for women only, would Yaniv reply to the effect of “I am trans.” The women would then convey that they were unwilling or unqualified to wax male genitalia. At this point, Yaniv would put in a complaint to the human-rights tribunal, alleging discrimination on the basis of gender identity, a protected characteristic under British Columbia’s human-rights code.
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Toronto unveils three new Trans crosswalks
The way they work is as follows: a person who steps on to the crosswalk as a man will find he has turned into a woman by the time he steps off on the other side of the road. And vice versa.
The City of Toronto will be posting warning signs on the crosswalks advising those who do not wish to have their chromosomes rearranged to find another crosswalk.
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Gender and the art of buying car insurance
To misquote Henry Higgins, “why can’t a man be more like a woman?” Well now he (or she, or should it be ze?) can.
From here:
An Alberta man has legally changed his gender purely to benefit from the lower car insurance rates offered to women.
“I didn’t feel like getting screwed over any more,” the man, identified only as “David,” [not me, I should point out] told CBC this week.
For more than three years, Alberta has been among several provinces in which residents can legally change the sex on their birth certificates without providing evidence of genital surgery.
Under a 2015 reform brought in by Alberta’s Progressive Conservatives, to change the gender on a birth certificate applicants need only provide a note from an accredited physician or psychologist indicating that they identify as a different sex.
“It was pretty simple. I just basically asked for it and told (the doctor) that I identify as a woman, or I’d like to identify as a woman, and he wrote me the letter I wanted,” David told CBC.
This is very tempting. If I become a woman, not only will my car and life insurance go down, but I will suddenly become a married lesbian and, thus, a prime candidate for a lucrative bishop’s job in the Anglican Church of Canada. The Diocese of Montreal would be a perfect fit.
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Glory to the gender bending God
When I was a student at university most of my attention was occupied by drinking, chasing girls and playing the guitar. I wasn’t a Christian at that point, although I did live next door to a couple of Christians with whom I became friends in spite of the fact that I diligently tried to scandalise and upset them whenever I had the chance. They must have forgiven me; one of them used to ask my advice on dating.
Evidently student Christianity has changed a little over the years. It is now a different century and, for me, a different country. And, it would appear, a different religion. I wasn’t convinced that the beliefs of my Christian friends were true, but at least I didn’t think them risibly preposterous. This, on the other hand, is:
Student Christian Movement of Canada
Glory to the Gender-Bending God – This is a devotional explores common experiences of trans people and how they correlate to themes appearing in the Bible. Through this devotional, we hope to affirm the lived experiences of trans people and celebrate trans folks as people of faith. Do name changes, chosen family, and struggling against institutions sound familiar? They should, because all these experiences echo throughout both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament. (Full Devotional/Mini Devotional)
The devotional has two accompanying resources:
Tips for a Trans-Affirming Church
Trans Terms & Definitions
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Ontario Elementary teachers receive inclusiveness training
Elementary school teachers in Ontario are being offered Inclusiveness Training that focusses on all matters LGGBDTTTIQQAAPP . For those few of you who have no idea what that means – I’m sure it is very few – here goes: Lesbian, Gay, Genderqueer, Bisexual, Demisexual, Transgender, Transsexual, Twospirit, Intersex, Queer, Questioning, Asexual, Allies, Pansexual, Polyamorous.
So you can rest assured that if junior enters elementary school in Ontario perfectly normal, he is liable to emerge as demisexual, or at the very least, polyamorous. I imagine the best you can hope for is asexual.
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Drag Queen Story Hour comes to Toronto
Toronto’s children’s libraries have been hosting Drag Queen Story Hour whose stated aim is:
just what it sounds like—drag queens reading stories to children in libraries, schools, and bookstores. DQSH captures the imagination and play of the gender fluidity of childhood and gives kids glamorous, positive, and unabashedly queer role models. In spaces like this, kids are able to see people who defy rigid gender restrictions and imagine a world where people can present as they wish, where dress up is real.
As the young lady in this video points out, drag queens live by their own rules, the only virtue left to a civilisation that has abandoned its Christian foundation, so if you’d like to take junior to a local children’s library Lil Miss Hot Mess will be only too happy to mess with his rules.
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Alberta government issues thinly veiled threat to Christian schools
Alberta’s NDP government has an anti-bullying policy in schools. To the NDP mind, a school that refuses to have gay straight alliance clubs or cross-gender lavatories is guilty of bullying – as defined by the Humpty Dumpty Theory of Language.
To discourage such defiant flouting of gender politics pieties, the Alberta government is bullying schools into compliance.
From here:
Education Minister David Eggen says he’s willing to strip two Christian schools of their public funding if they won’t abandon their Christian principles and allow clubs promoting homosexuality and/or transgender students in washrooms of the opposite sex.
These measures are part of the New Democratic government’s anti-bullying policies that single out sexual minorities for protection, though surveys indicate that physical appearance and grades are far more likely causes of school bullying.
Last month, Spruce Grove Baptist pastor Brian Coldwell, who is also chairman of an independent Christian school board with two small schools with 200 students, said neither cross-gendered washrooms nor gay straight alliances would be allowed in his schools.
Asked about Coldwell’s comments at a school opening where he was joined by Premier Rachel Notley, Eggen said, “It’s not acceptable, not just for the kids that are attending those schools, but it sends a negative message across the province, that I’m quite concerned about as well.” According to the Edmonton Journal, Eggen also said he “won’t rule out” defunding Coldwell’s schools.
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Judge rules 5 year old should choose his own gender
A judge has ruled that a five year old Oakville boy should be permitted to pick a gender that is at odds with his chromosomes. His parents are separated and his mother claims that the boy, to use a phrase I have come to loathe, self-identifies as a girl; the father disagrees.
The case has come before the courts and the judge has ruled that “the boy should be dressed as he wishes and not unilaterally pushed toward either a male or a female identity.” The case bears a passing resemblance to a much earlier one where Solomon ruled that a disputed child should be divided in half and each half given to the two women claiming to be his mother. Justice Sheilagh O’Connell, not having the wisdom of Solomon, did not rule that the top half of the child be dressed as a boy and the bottom half as a girl. It would probably have done little to shake the mother’s conviction that the objective reality of her son’s sex should not be a determining factor in his upbringing.
I was a guest at a wedding yesterday and had been asked by the bride’s father to take some candid photos of the event. When the time came to take a photo of all the men, I was preoccupied with photos of my own, so I missed being in the official men’s photo. A woman asked me why I wasn’t in it. The conversation went something like this:
Woman: Why aren’t you in the photo?
Me (deciding to have a little fun): Because I self-identify as a woman.
Woman (not in the least nonplussed): Well why weren’t you in the women’s photo, then?
Me: They wouldn’t let me.
Woman: That’s terrible.
The laughable thing about that is not only was I taken seriously, but the part that shocked the woman was that I, a not particularly effeminate man (I just verified that with my wife) – other than the long nails on my right hand used for guitar playing, an embellishment balanced by the chewed nails on my left hand – was not allowed to pretend to be a woman.
The next wedding I attend, I will be self-identifying as a poached egg to see how that works out.