Transexual starts a study...what happens next??

by digderidoo 44 Replies latest jw friends

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  faundy

  How strange- I was looking into this subject when I came across this thread that has just been bumped.

  It makes me so angry when I think of how I was treated simply for being gay. I didn't ask for this at all. Try telling a four year old to trust in Jehovah when she is terrified that her thoughts about marrying a woman are going to get her destroyed at Armageddon.

  TG is a delicate topic and I would LOVE to contact Bethel to get their opinion on this. When you go on the website though, the only way they will explain anything is to direct you to filling out a form and the local congregation to you will pay you a visit. God, at times like this I wish I could have stood up for myself more rather than leaving as a 22 year old lesbian who sneaked out the back door and faded. Sometimes I think it would have been worth a spectacular disfellowshipping- I'm being treated as though I've been DFd anyway!

  F.
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  eruption

  Lola lo la la lo la, NOW, IM NOT THE WORLDS MOST PHYSICAL GUY sorry that song just popped into my head, Ijust love The Kinks
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  chickpea

  faundy....a version of your words came from my transgender son's mouth earlier in his transition, saying he remembered being in
  about 4th grade, KNEW something about him was contrary to " the holy grail" of heteronormative behaviour and he sat
  in meeting after meeting hearing how he was unlovable to the god he was being told to love..... literally froze my heart in sadness

  thank the cosmos that you and he are now FREE TO BE!!!!
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  faundy

  Thanks Chickpea; yep we're the lucky ones I guess, standing up for ourselves when everyone else seems to be against us.

  Can I ask, is your son Transgender? I wasn't sure if I had read that somewhere. If you'd rather I PMd you about it I can.

  I don't regret coming out, either as a lesbian or from the organization; I just truly wish I had let myself be known to others so that anyone else like me who was hiding themselves in the congregation would see that the world doesn't collapse when you walk from a Kingdom Hall.
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  chickpea

  faundy, sent you a PM
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  sizemik

  In my first congregation in the early 80's a transgender study began attending meetings. After a few weeks she began to bring along her transgender girlfriend. It created the expected stir and shitloads of gossip . . . everybody had an opinion. I was working the sound at the back of the hall at the time and was constantly being asked which loo they were using. I said I wasn't into toilet watching, but the questions just kept coming.

  The larger lady was soon answering with well-packaged JW answers at the WT study. After about three months they dissappeared without trace. I suspect most TG's will eventually go the same way . . . it's just a matter of time (and not much either) before the bigotry and judging scares them away. Apparently the study conductor(sister) was asked by the Elders(big brave boys) to make clear the situation (whatever that was) . . . and that was that. JW's don't know how to deal with this . . . or at least they didn't back then.

  Oh . . . and just for the record . . . they used the ladies.
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  faundy

  Ladies' toilets are always nicer anyway. Not to get off topic here but I have never understood men being comfortable whipping out their dongs and publicly spraying.
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  inverlass

  Does anyone want to know more about why the Elders insisted I had a sex change? Will be back later...
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  cantleave

  Inverlass - go for it - start a new thread and reveal all (well not literally)!!
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  sizemik

  I have never understood men being comfortable whipping out their dongs and publicly spraying.

  Now that's a thread starter if I ever saw one . . . could be fun!