SNEAKO - SNEAKO Interviews A Transgender About God

00:00:00.000 well what's your frame of thinking i mean like i'm a practicing quaker uh i think that kind of

00:00:05.720 hangs a lot on how i look at it and we believe in equity and like just uh again that simple

00:00:12.160 premise like a lot of religions have that like world universal love everybody kind of premise

00:00:16.640 the way we kind of look at it is like the light of gods and everybody so therefore i can't punch

00:00:21.960 you to go back to that or you're worth consideration and that uh each every single

00:00:26.440 person on the subway platform is worth fighting for you know what i mean men don't have to just

00:00:29.780 be this we don't have to have just one partner we can be open with ourselves i might be pansexual

00:00:34.100 if i find a partner that's pansexual in the future i'll be very happy about that why because we can

00:00:37.920 all be open about ourselves and that's how it works because in actuality all of these are

00:00:42.300 different circumstances taken on a case-by-case basis if you would have a relationship with a

00:00:46.220 trans person yes i would and why because they're a person person first and foremost trans women are

00:00:52.540 women it's where the table i have to say but you know what they're just women okay they're women 0.95

00:00:56.140 trans women are women then you would just say women are women wait right but i don't have to say 0.99

00:01:00.560 women are women but i have to give the context the reason why is for example do you know that just 1.00

00:01:03.840 yesterday uh july 31st there was a homosexual man that was stabbed in a parking lot for dancing

00:01:09.960 okay he was stabbed in a parking lot for dancing the lgbt community still has problems booby just like 0.99

00:01:17.040 the black community still has problems and all the other ones so i don't know if it's clear but i'm a

00:01:20.540 trans woman and quakers have had uh uh trans members since the 1770s so like i wasn't out as

00:01:27.080 trans at the time but i think something subconsciously kind of attracted me to that

00:01:29.840 uh religion and also uh yeah and it's also i like how they practice because like we all just sit in a

00:01:37.540 room and stare at each other in meditation until somebody wants to speak up on what the god has to

00:01:41.180 tell them you know what i mean and uh that's you know like you hear about religious practice was

00:01:45.860 actually a thing you do over and over and over again and i think like having that outlet of that

00:01:50.020 form of meditation especially when that's like not focused towards like what's inside of me but

00:01:53.440 what's like outside for all these people around you uh i think it's just uh helped me in my life when i

00:02:00.480 have a lot of struggles and you know i desire power you know what i mean because i don't get a lot of

00:02:03.880 power in my life as a trans woman you know there are a lot of trans people in quakerism uh yeah there's

00:02:07.800 quite a few trans people in my church uh depends on which um house of worship you go to but uh

00:02:12.900 i can name six quakers who are trans or gender non-conforming so uh and you know outside of you

00:02:22.300 know going to the certain bars in new york city you kind of have a hard time finding more than six

00:02:27.080 trans people in the room at once you know what i mean yeah i i say for the first person to tell you

00:02:33.160 this women are women okay i don't like saying trans women are women because i think it's uncomfortable 0.99

00:02:36.420 because trans women want to they they hold out to social performance and the necessary all the 0.76

00:02:40.900 necessary aspects of being a woman the feminine the feminine criteria the feminine condition and 1.00

00:02:44.560 the feminine ideal that's what it is and for that matter how we understand how gender and sex work 1.00

00:02:48.820 in the duality then they are women but was that a trans woman on the in this chair like three people 1.00

00:02:53.480 ago pretty manly guy and you know what you know this comes with a transition with that i have to ask

00:02:58.440 you a gotcha type question do you think that kids should be able to have transgender surgeries

00:03:02.260 uh kids are not getting transgender surgeries i would say uh i would defer to what the medical 0.61

00:03:08.960 community says and gender affirming care uh a lot of times people uh hear about kids getting access to

00:03:15.960 uh gender affirming health care and they think surgeries because a lot of times people just 0.90

00:03:19.760 look at our thing and think like oh it's sexual so immediately they think about the balls or whatever

00:03:23.660 gender affirming care to kids is usually social uh stuff where like they get access to uh like a doctor

00:03:31.500 or they're able to dress in the way that feels right for them and then they get uh um

00:03:36.240 uh puberty blockers to stave off this decision until they're 18 and mature enough to make this

00:03:42.440 decision for themselves so uh yes that's 100 not what i said did i mention the word surgery and

00:03:51.660 should they be able to get surgeries uh i defer to what the medical community says and most of them

00:03:57.460 will say no i mean some kids get top surgery uh they get their breasts removed but also i have plenty 1.00

00:04:03.720 of cis women friends who get breast reduction surgery nobody ever gives a shit about that twice 1.00

00:04:07.980 right i don't really trust you and this kind of feels like a bullshit thing so go fuck this up 1.00

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SNEAKO - August 10, 2023

SNEAKO Interviews A Transgender About God

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