Not because it’s trendy.
Not because it’s easy.
But because it’s right!
1. People deserve to live as themselves
There’s a quiet kind of violence in being told your reality isn’t real. In fact, the violence against trans people isn't always quiet. Trans people push back against that every day, often at great cost, just to live honestly. Supporting them isn’t complicated. It’s about respecting someone’s truth, even if it challenges your assumptions.
I Just Want to Live Trans Sheep is available for digital download.
2. Harm has too often been justified as “truth.”
Too many have experienced rejection, exclusion, or even spiritual abuse in the name of certainty. But when this kind of so-called “truth” leaves people isolated, afraid, or erased, it’s worth asking what kind of truth that really is. Support means choosing compassion over control, people over rigid systems, love over dogma.
I Love You As You Are is available for digital download.
3. Dignity shouldn’t be up for debate
Trans people aren’t issues to argue about. They’re human beings to know, love, and stand with. Basic things like safety, healthcare, and belonging shouldn’t depend on whether others understand or agree. Supporting trans people means refusing to make their humanity or our care for them conditional.
This original drawing, "Do Not Fear Trans," is available for purchase.
I support trans people because I believe authenticity is sacred. Because I’ve seen what exclusion does. Because love, if it’s real, doesn’t draw lines around who gets to belong.
And because everyone deserves the freedom to be fully, visibly, unapologetically alive.
P.S. If you liked this blog and cartoons, I've put together 3 wholesome and affirming trans cartoons too.
2 comments
So basically when you deconstructed you left the Christian faith. You stopped seeing the Bible
as authoritative. You pick and choose what you like from the Bible without the context of what
surrounds your snippet. Yes, God LOVES the homosexual, the trans person the adulterer, the
liar, the thief, the woman who aborts her child, and whatever the moral flawed thing a person
can be (pick your sin). But God in no way says, "Eh, it is okay. Stay as you are. You don't have
to change." God calls us to REPENTANCE which more and more people choose to ignore. You
are making your own self god. Romans 1:18-32 READ again. Jesus told the woman he saved
from being stoned, "Neither do I condemn you. Go now and LEAVE YOUR LIFE OF SIN." John
7:53-8:11. Repentance is to change course. Jesus did not say just go about your life as usual.
I get being upset with churches that are not welcoming to LGBTQ+ people. People need to work
at being more welcoming because they need JESUS and the salvation that comes through Him.
But welcoming does not mean affirming. No pride flags. No celebration of sin. People in the
church tend to forget that they suffer from every manner of sin (adultery, lying, cheating, sexual
sin effects straight people too. And a multitude of sin.)
I encourage your readers to seek out books and interviews of Beckett Cook and Rosario
Butterfield. Both are people who once acted upon their same sex attraction but came to Christ
and REPENTED. They have turned from their ways and seek to live their life for God and be
obedient to His will. Their stories are inspiring. Same sex attraction and trans and everything
that goes under the LGBTQ is just as much a sin as every sin that is not included under that
acronym.
We are to find our identity in Jesus alone. To seek out God's TRUTH; not the "truth" that we
want it to be. Jesus talks about the narrow door found in Matthew 7:13-14 and Luke 13:23-24. If
the Bible is authoritative (which I believe it is) then are you not leading people astray as you
widen the road with falsities that counter the Biblical teachings? God loves everyone, YES! He
desires no one to be lost. But God is holy and perfect and can not have sin close to Him. Love
is not love when it is aimed at the wrong object. Refer back to Romans for wrong objects. Be
careful what you preach in your cartoon art and blogs. You are leading people away from the narrow door.
I love this essay.
But, I have a hard time, when in a Bible Study or Class, when some member will start expressing opinions on how wrong homosexuality (and/or trans people’s lifestyle) is according to the Bible .
And it is depressing. When I hear negative comments from them (as they pretend being God-loving individuals who follow Christ’s gospel), I think about:
John 13:34-35:
“A new command I give you: Love one another.
As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”_
My only comeback is: “You still eat Pork, right? Well, it is in the Bible as a practice you should not do".
(See, Leviticus 11:7–8 and Deuteronomy 14:8)
They are not impressed.
But, I still keep trying to influence their mindset by making my comments to give them something to think about.
Woe is me.
Kathleen Pritchett
(an ornery Methodist)
Ofallon, Illinois
6/27/26