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Follow all blahaj.zone rules
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All posts must be trans-related. Other queer-related posts go to c/lgbtq.
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Resources:
Best resource: https://github.com/cvyl/awesome-transgender Site with links to resources for just about anything.
Trevor Project: crisis mental health services for LGBTQ people, lots of helpful information and resources: https://www.thetrevorproject.org/
The Gender Dysphoria Bible: useful info on various aspects of gender dysphoria: https://genderdysphoria.fyi/en
StainedGlassWoman: Various useful essays on trans topics: https://stainedglasswoman.substack.com/
Trans resources: https://trans-resources.info/
[USA] Resources for trans people in the South: https://southernequality.org/resources/transinthesouth/#provider-map
[USA] Report discrimination: https://action.aclu.org/legal-intake/report-lgbtqhiv-discrimination
[USA] Keep track on trans legislation and news: https://www.erininthemorning.com/
[GERMANY] Bundesverband Trans: Find medical trans resources: https://www.bundesverband-trans.de/publikationen/leitfaden-fuer-behandlungssuchende/
[GERMANY] Trans DB: Insurance information (may be outdated): https://transdb.de/
[GERMANY] Deutsche Gesellschaft für Transidentität und Intersexualität: They have contact information for their advice centers and some general information for trans and intersex people. They also do activism: dgti.org
*this is a work in progress, and these resources are courtesy of users like you! if you have a resource that helped you out in your trans journey, comment below in the pinned post and I'll add here to pass it on
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Not yet, but this is a concern, especially as he is from where it happened, is of the affected group, is only a year in office, and probably knows the casualties were all children who were born after 2010 and would make sainthood records in regards to their ages (one even took a bullet for a classmate).
it'd be quite unusual for the pope to adress a specific crime somewhere with more than thoughts and prayers. he also cannot throw around with sainthood. the catholic church has laws and requirements for that. even if he wanted to fast-track that it would take years.
i'm sure people will try to instrumentalise this. but i can't imagine the pope picking up on this. his carreer is wholly independent on trump. why should he? he is a souvereign monarch. (catholics in the us tend to be quite extreme tho, there is a lot of very active sedisvacantists. these have been, and will be dangerous, i guess. but they distance themself from the younger popes anyway.)
i'd worry more abt fox news rn ...
The pope right now seems staunchly anti-Trump. Unless you mean in the sense that this fuels him (the pope). I don't know. The possibility of the norms being broken does feel like it could be at play. Some saints have become saints without the typical rules. The Romanovs are a good example of this. It was almost instantaneous, and they're explicitly not even Catholic to my knowledge. To cite another one, there's a muderous conquistador who is relevant here too, though I forgot his name. He slaughtered two hundred indigenous people and was by no means "practicing", yet he was on a Catholic mission, so poof, he had started climbing the ranks. Saint Tekakwitha might be a recent third (but more innocent) example. She too challenged what it means to be Catholic, but the story goes the papacy was so desperate to penetrate the Haudenosaunee that they were like "she's extremely lowkey, but we'll take it".
well zar nikolaus II is a saint of the russian orthodox church since 2000. i couldn't find anything abt this in a catholic context. (and even if so, he was a geopolitically important person. not a kid from highschool)
the canonisation of kateri tekekwitha took centuries and on the basis, that she was already revered in northern america. i don't know the details.
there are undeserved saints. i just dont think that the catholic church, will muddy their image as an eternal institution by throwing themselves into the usa's culture war news-cycle. thats not to defend the church, but to focus on those who actually threaten democracy and freedom, like the king in orange.
Let us hope. Not defending either of these two individuals, but Pope Leo wasn't afraid of throwing shade on Donald Trump due to his practices involving ICE at the most vulnerable moments, which follows Pope Francis who was equally political but more about social progress (e.g. climate change). Both of these popes, as well as Pope Benedict, always used to stop just short of declaring full tolerance towards LGBT practices while trying to appeal to the LGBT crowd, so let's hope this is their limit.