Who says God doesn't make mistakes?

"Sexual orientation is 'who you go to bed WITH. Sexual gender is who you go to bed AS."

I'm listening to Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family by Amy Ellis Nutt. The book is not only about Nicole Maines. Nutt writes about a lot of the science/psychology around sexual orientation and gender identity. She had talked about a doctor's first lesson from a transgender patient: the above two sentences. I nearly stopped the car to look for a pen to write it down, but I remembered it when I got home.  I can see some people getting bored; in another book, I might have been, as well. Instead, I hate that I'm not emotionally strong enough to be a guidance counselor in a high school where kids need someone with whom they can talk.

The story isn't a wonderful one, in that Nutt has no choice, if she wants an accurate book, to talk about the ugliness of bullying. When I heard Nicole speak at Trans Lives! in Farmington a few weeks ago, she talked about a classmate's grandfather who complained about her using the girls' bathroom - even though it, to me, didn't infringe on his grandson's rights. I shake with rage.  When I shut off the car, I had just begun a chapter about the groups who say that their religions understand Jesus's words as saying that transgender kids should be stoned to death.

I've heard trans kids called freaks. I've heard loving families say that their family members are fine as they are because God doesn't make mistakes.  Bullshit.

These aberrations of humanity, of decency. That, my friends, is a mistake according to what my friends have told me about their religions, and about everything I have personally learned about any deity. Talk about mistakes.

I don't know how I'll handle it as I go through life.