An Alabama preacher and politician killed himself Friday two days after being outed for having a secret life he shared online as a “transgender curvy girl.”
An Alabama preacher and politician killed himself Friday two days after being outed for having a secret life he shared online as a “transgender curvy girl.”
She could’ve had the life she deserved, she could’ve still been the preacher, the politician, the anything. But from the shame and fear, we have this. This is what all that “doing it for attention”, “pronouns suck” and “groomer pedo” talk amounts too. People so scared to live that we have a dead body instead.
I hope she is at peace.
He wasn’t trans; he was a crossdresser.
Their own words: "transitioning transgender curvy girl, that loves smiling, clothes, and shoes!”
The username was “transgender curvy girl”, I think that speaks volumes for how she wanted to be seen. I would love to ask her how she identified, perhaps it was as a crossdesser. But since she picked “girl” and “trans” for herself, I think we should go with that que.
Wow, you took the words right out of my mouth. This is just tragic in every way.
Unfortunately the “shame” surrounding these things stem from the concept of sin and living as a “sinner” in a “fallen world”. I’ve been shamed countless times because of things the church did not agree with. I don’t know if he ever preached any transphobic ideas in his time, but biblical ideologies are rife with gender roles and toxic ideas about women and masculinity. Even if he didn’t preach any of that toxic garbage, he must have been struggling a lot with his own identity, even though he said it’s only for fun and stress relief (paraphrasing). Small towns don’t act gracefully towards people experimenting with their sexualities like this. Can only imagine the rejection he must have experienced having all of this play off on the grand stage of his life in that little town, since literally everyone there knew him.