Saturday, August 22, 2020

IN the NEWS - DNC Convention: Gender-transcendent Mermaid?

I have seen the foolish taking root... Job 5:3
"Moderator Diego Sanchez hosted a live panel on Day 2 of the Democratic National Convention Convention, inviting several
guests to discuss the topic of Raising up Transgendered Youth and Young Adults, including one panelist which identifies as a “Transgender Non-Binary/Gender-transcendent Mermaid Queen-King” who is also an ordained minister.

During the panel, Sanchez first asked Jenny Vu Mai, the aforementioned mermaid, what the newly licensed minister learned in Divinity School and what she would have missed if she hadn’t attended. She replied:
Something that I would have missed if I chose a different path is that some of the holiest people, and the people who most resemble what God looks like to me are black trans folk and in particular black trans women…
 
When the DNC moderator asked her what sort of questions persons of color, trans, and non-binary youth are asking in this day and age, Mai was adamant that the very existence of the police and prisons were bewildering to teens, who thought they ought to be abolished.
 
When asked by another interviewer how her identity as
transgendered and non-binary affected her faith and practice, Mai was…confusing.
I identify as somewhat Christian but also somewhat agnostic. I perceive the binary between Christian or not Christian like I perceive gender to be a false binary. There are so many nuances of what it means to be Christian, what it means to be a non-binary Christian….
In that sense, she is a perfect representative of the Democratic Party, and it is not surprising in the least that the DNC featured her as a guest."
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