Why the Family Proclamation is actually pro-trans, a 🧵 in honor of #Mormon #PRIDE

If you're someone who thinks trans identity isn't of God, please read this—I hope to provide a framework to understand trans folks and their place within our currently revealed doctrine. The Family Proclamation, in its second paragraph, states that sex is an essential, eternal part of our identity.

(The Proclamation calls it "gender", but church authorities have since clarified that what they meant is "biological sex", which is how I'll be referring to it)

@NoDisassemble5 @Princeprempehs @cwillardsmoot Fine.

Ok, so I don't know Prince, neither am I black. But having significant contact with that community + being nonwhite myself, I'm gon a try to educate your ass on why your offhand comment is uninformed in the reality of nonwhites in the LDS church.

🧵 @NoDisassemble5 @Princeprempehs @cwillardsmoot Members of color are aware of the church's racial exclusion policy. We either were born in it, our parents and grandparents lived it, or—in the case of converts—their church elders did.

When we join, our community attacks us for joining a racist church—WE'RE AWARE OF THE POLICY

I love the third verse of O Holy Night, but in English we lose a lot in translation.

I love the message of liberation and fraternity soaked into the verses, but we only passingly hear about it in English.

1/4 So, here is my own, less poetic, translation but one which keeps the radically liberating message of Christ (though I did take some liberties):

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