"you Don't Have To Transition To Be Trans": Overdone, Dull, Runs Cover For Taking Away Medical Care From

PSA: Religious trauma is not simply disagreeing with religion and calling it trauma. It is not, “I was dragged to church every Sunday and I got really bored there.”

It is physical, verbal, and sexual abuse.

It is being led to believe that you will go to a place of eternal suffering if you step out of line, even if only slightly.

It is having a fear of said place of eternal suffering, and some people are afraid of it even after they renounce their faith.

It is being told that all people are inherently evil and deserving of death and eternal suffering for being flawed, and feeling ashamed of being imperfect as a result of this.

It is being told that you will never be good enough.

It is being told that you are nothing in comparison to God.

It is being told by loved ones (including those who raised you) that, if they had to choose between you and their god, you will always come second.

It is being discriminated against for being a minority.

It is being punished by and/or losing family and friends for rejecting parts of the faith or the faith itself.

It is being demonized for having sexual desires and having your worth based on whether or not you abstain until marriage, especially if you were assigned female at birth.

It is being told that you are responsible if others look at you with lust or sexually harass or assault you. Again, this idea is especially hammered into your head if you are a person who was assigned female at birth.

It is being physically or mentally unable to have sex or experiencing guilt after having sex due to purity culture.

It is having your health put at risk as a child because your family opposes certain medical procedures (vaccines, blood transfusions, etc.) for religious reasons.

It is being treated negatively for having a physical disability or mental disorder (not to mention the abusive behaviors listed above can worsen existing mental health disorders or cause them to come about in someone who did not have them previously.) This is not to say that nonreligious people can’t be plenty ableist, of course.

It is missing opportunities and losing years of your life to fear, repression, and pain.

It is experiencing horrible things in the name of a God that no one has undeniable proof of in terms of whether or not he exists.

Don’t get me wrong. I know that not all religious people do the things described above. But damn, if there aren’t a lot who do… those people are unfortunately the loudest.

This has been a PSA.

put your bra back on boy we have a murder to solve

the shock value really gets ya huh

my most antitheist opinion is that hell is like. a cartoonishly evil thing to believe in and insanely abusive to teach children about

Pour one out for a real one.

you punch nazis!

(requested by anonymous)

hi, a lot of you need a perspective reset

the average human lifespan globally is 70+ years

taking the threshold of adulthood as 18, you are likely to spend at least 52 years as a fully grown adult

at the age of 30 you have lived less than one quarter of your adult life (12/52 years)

'middle age' is typically considered to be between 45-65

it is extremely common to switch careers, start new relationships, emigrate, go to college for the first or second time, or make other life-changing decisions in middle age

it's wild that I even have to spell it out, but older adults (60+) still have social lives and hobbies and interests.

you can still date when you get old. you can still fuck. you can still learn new skills, be fashionable, be competitive. you can still gossip, you can still travel, you can still read. you can still transition. you can still come out.

young doesn't mean peaked. you're inexperienced in your 20s! you're still learning and practicing! you're developing social skills and muscle memory that will last decades!

there are a million things to do in the world, and they don't vanish overnight because an imaginary number gets too big

*“Oh, Ashley” from the Hunicast intensifies.*