As a Black Trans Man, Walking Into Church Can Cause Me Harm

If you look at history, religion and violence against people like me go hand in hand

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3 min readAug 14, 2019

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One morning, my adoptive mom asked me if I wanted to go to church with her, and I didn’t really have an answer.

The last time I went to a church service, it ended up being a traumatic shitshow. On…

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