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Baylor U. got $643,401 to study how LGBTQ+ people are marginalized by churches.

Conservative Christians threw a tantrum.

So the university returned the money and canceled the project.

Spineless. Shameful. Predictable.

Baylor University rejects $643,401 LGBTQ+ research grant after conservative backlash

Under pressure from right-wing critics, the Baptist school rejected funding meant to help churches be more inclusive

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So much for trans men being a recent fad



LAURA MAUD DILLON / TRANSGENDER PIONEER

Laurence Michael Dillon, born Laura Maud Dillon (1915 – 1962), was a British physician and the first transgender man ever to undergo a phalloplasty (meaning, basically, a doctor constructed a penis for him from scratch, and grafted it onto his body).

Dillon had long been more comfortable in men's clothing and felt that he was not truly a woman. In 1939, he sought treatment from Dr. George Foss, who had been experimenting with testosterone to treat excessive menstrual bleeding; at the time, the hormone's masculinizing effects were poorly understood.

Foss provided Dillon with testosterone pills but insisted Dillon consult a psychiatrist first, who gossiped about Dillon's desire to become a man, and soon the story was all over town. Dillon fled to Bristol and took a job at a garage.

The hormones soon made it possible for him to pass as male, and eventually the garage manager insisted that other employees refer to Dillon as "he" in order to ....

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"So much for trans men being a recent fad" S2 #845

This comment has me puzzling over these occasional mismatches between physical body, and emotional perspective.
Some of us are lucky to have both in accord.
What insight into evolution is provided by these minority mismatches?