This afternoon while I was loading up the week's grocery shopping on my tricycle a member of one of the fringe christian churches in town walked by me, swung in close and said, 'You're a man not a woman, be a man and wear men's clothes.'
He walked on having said his piece and me being the new fearless reborn non-binary me called after him, 'No I'm not I was born intersex, so I'm both.'
His reply to that was, 'No you're not, you're a man, you need to get with Jesus.' before he strolled into the local church charity shop.
For one fierce moment I considered going after him and pulling his ***hole over his head, but then I counted to 10 and let it go. Even on a high adrenaline rush and with my martial arts training in the picture I'm still 61 years old and need to walk with a stick due to chronic illness. I'd cause a scene and the local Police guys and girls wouldn't be best pleased with me at all.
I'm not really angry, just exasperated that smug idiots like him have got the Christian message so wrong. I may have left the Catholic church and abandoned the solemn promises I made as a lay sister due to the Church's position on trans-folk, but I still have a belief in the message Christ brought to the world.
The weird thing about all this is that I was dressed uni-sex femme as usual in jeans and a hoodie without any makeup or earrings so I wasn't exactly trying to be 'fabulous' or anything.
Mods, - I don't think I've written anything that means I'll have to go stand in the corner, but please feel free to edit my post if I've broken any rules.
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