I am Christian. Anglo-Catholic. I remind myself what my priest once told me: “Jesus trumps Paul [the Apostle]. Jesus was God. Paul was a servant of God. Jesus was the Word. Paul was a guy with an opinion.”

Personally, trans ideology resembles the worst failures of religion to me, because it IS a religion - and the worst variety: a cult. Don’t question. Don’t read those books. Don’t talk to those people. If they don’t agree with you, cut them off. Only listen to us.

But they also represent the worst streams in that they try to insert their movement’s tentacles as far as they can into politics and even to influence science. My priest and I are both in agreement that Christians trying to get into heaven by banning gay marriage on the political level, for example, is not only a waste of time, but it’s only going to bite them in the ass in the end. How exactly are they going to “win souls” by forcing people who AREN’T their religion to follow its rules anyway? Do these “Religious Right” people think that if they ban gay people from marrying each other, all the gay couples are just gonna be like “Whelp, guess we don’t have a choice anymore, let’s just march en masse down to the River Jordan and get baptized”? No, because that’s stupid. They’re just going to resent you even more. And they - the Religious Right - are aware of that, which means that this isn’t about religion at all - it’s a power play, plain and simple.

Same thing with TRA. They want into our bathrooms, saunas, etc. and to dictate our language and even our own bodies and how we can talk about them to us because they want to lord their victories and self-validation over us. Just like some televangelist with a ten-million-dollar jet will cry about “anti-Christian persecution” when he’s forced to pay taxes for his mansion, a TiM will scream “BIGOTRY” when he is denied a genital waxing service from a females-only salon.

Likewise, science itself is seen as an oppressor that must be silenced. “Either you teach creationism or admit you’re biased!” How is that any different from “Either start telling people that sex is a mere arbitrary designation applied at birth for no reason or admit you’re a bigot!” In fact, TRAs are worse in that respect, because while universities can research evolution free of harassment, they can’t examine the psychological causes of dysphoria, detransitioners, etc. with TRAs shutting it down.

Lastly, shit religious expression concerns itself with, well, shit. The “Religious Right” in the US has somehow talked itself into believing that no one gets to be a friend of Jesus unless they actively support the rich, oppose feeding the hungry, deny climate change, are explicitly racist, and are willing to look the other way at sexual perversion on the part of men. Charity, compassion, self-restraint - posh on all that. Meanwhile, TRAs insist they’re just out to help people with dysphoria, but actively oppose any attempts to do so outside of their “transition or suicide” dogma, demand central focus in feminism and even in racial justice concerns, force their way into women’s spaces, demand the policing of language, openly support cancel culture against female victims of violence and WOC, defend pedophiles and rapists if they claim to be one of their own....it goes on and on.