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Rev’d Deacon Alex Griffin @alexmarcgriffin.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

I haven’t been on here in months, but I figured I should update my bio since I’ve been a deacon (transitional) for a few weeks now. Photos by Janet Best

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onion person @junlper.beer · 18/03/2025

they’re arresting people for performing abortions, they’re deporting people for liking pro-palestine posts on social media, they’re sending immigrants to forced labor camps in south america, we are living under fascism right now

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elisabeth @elisabeth.love · 27/01/2025

“we’re all in this together” rly? what rights have you lost? oh roe v wade? u know you live in a state where abortion is protected right? we just got locked into a country without access to documents necessary to leave & they intend to criminalise our existence and v code us in prisons.

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Nintendo DS Lewis ✝️ @blueberrymill.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

FLORENCE LI TIM-OI DAY TODAY 🕯️

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jordan! @jordanjamboree.pittbert.gay · 23/01/2025

New rule: if you can't verify some news about trans stuff with at least two verifiable sources, you don't post it. Seeing a lot of people worried about shit they don't need to be yet

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Winnie the Pooh (Official) @indianawalsh.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

There's a mainline protestant church with a woke lady pastor within walking distance of your house. Everyone there will be thrilled to see someone under 50 at service. There's free donuts too.

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The Word in Black and Red Pod @twibar.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Someone asked if I had found Jesus. I can't figure out how this guy lost him, in America of all places, where there are so many hungry, thirsty, naked, and homeless people around for Christ to be.

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Rev’d Deacon Alex Griffin @alexmarcgriffin.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

The more things are fucked, the more Anglo-Catholic I get. When life is going well, give me that happy flappy Jesus music. But when everything goes to shit, you’ll catch me praying in front of a Mary statue in the snowy darkness.

Footsteps in the snow lead to 2 sets of church doors with a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary statue in the middle

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Rev’d Deacon Alex Griffin @alexmarcgriffin.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

In light of the present shitshow, I’ve taken up a practice of praying to my favorite saints (canonized or not) for strength against evil.

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Kylie Justine @kyliejustine.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

It is not surprising to me that Trumpism has gained so much traction within evangelicalism because they have created a new Christianity that doesn’t actually require anyone to BE Christian. Their gospel does not call for repentance - it merely lightly suggests it while offering Jesus as a loophole.

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Piper @yourfriendpiper.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

If you think this is a time to let abusers & other authoritarians back in for the sake of a bigger tent you just invited the threat inside

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Lindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Everybody needs to be aggressively pro-trans rights now and for all time.

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gryphoneer @gryphoneer.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

it's important to remember, trump's admin used this exact same tactic back in 2017. try to overwhelm the public with hundreds of terrible executive order, make people doom-spiral so they don't resist. but they couldn't stop police stations burning in 2020. don't despair, fight back.

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

alright you wanna know how to support trans people? hire them. It's REALLY hard already for visibly trans people to get jobs, even before this shit. Support places that have trans people working front of house, and make sure owners know that's part of why you're there.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 21/01/2025

TLDR: There is nothing enforceable for the immediate future. It will take months or years to implement this via rulemaking or bureaucratic changes which are then subject to legal challenge. While it's worrying, there's no immediate change yet for most trans people. Do not comply in advance.

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Padre Santiago Rodriguez @thepilgrimpadre.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Each one of you has to be God’s microphone. Each one of you has to be a messenger, a prophet. The church will always exist as long as there is someone who has been baptized…Where is your baptism? Oscar Romero ⚓️

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Rev’d Deacon Alex Griffin @alexmarcgriffin.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I understand all the praise of Bishop Budde’s sermon, but I still don’t think it should have ever happened in the first place. It sets up TEC as his Orangeness’ Loyal Opposition, but God doesn’t call us to loyally oppose evil but to be disloyal to it.

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💉Josh Rubin, MD @drsandman11.medsky.social · 21/01/2025

So now we are all legally female

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Benjamin Garren @wokehtklim.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

#TEC Clergy needing verbiage for a letter to their congregation in light of the anti-trans executive orders put in place yesterday: Dear Congregants, The Episcopal Church has a long history of supporting human rights and seeking a just society for all persons.

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Benjamin Not Ben 🍉 @benjaminvandyne.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

“Inclusion” will become a cudgel to make sure we keep being nice to powerful horrible people which is why it was always a bad theological category to start with

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Benjamin Not Ben 🍉 @benjaminvandyne.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

God became flesh, that’s not normal!

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paulashcomedy.bsky.social @paulashcomedy.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

When Marx said to seize the means of production. I didn't think he meant the internet...

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Rev’d Deacon Alex Griffin @alexmarcgriffin.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Today in “other duties as assigned” in the church office, today I had to make use of my one Spanish class over a decade ago to help a man who spoke neither English nor French access our food bank.

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

They almost got this passed in their last tax cuts. It would’ve cost us tens of thousands in taxes on a 32k a year stipend. It got amended in the final bill but barely

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Rev’d Deacon Alex Griffin @alexmarcgriffin.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I just unironically said to myself, “it’s not the cold, it’s the wind that’ll get ya” without even thinking about it. Where do I go to claim my Canadian citizenship?

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Rev’d Deacon Alex Griffin @alexmarcgriffin.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Canada was talking about passing a law like this for a while, and it worries me because of just how easy it is to use this kind of legislation to scrub all references to LGBTQ+ people off the internet (not to mention increasing surveillance in concerning ways).

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Allison Raine Chapman @alli.gay · 09/01/2025

‼️NEW: Meta is now blocking searches on Threads for terms such as “Trans”, “LBGT”, and “Transgender”. However, the term “Transgenderism” does show results. This comes days after the platform announced their intentions to stop moderating anti-LGBTQ+ posts.

A search on threads showing no results for the search term “transgender”

A search on threads showing results for the search term “transgenderism”

A search on threads showing no results for the search term “LGBT”

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 09/01/2025

Meta is now completely censoring searches for the terms "trans" and "transgender" etc. on Threads. So much for free speech and free expression.

The images appear to show search results on a platform for the terms "Trans" and "Transgender" under different tabs such as "Top" or "Recent." Both searches result in "No results" being displayed, indicating that no content or profiles matching these terms were found or are being displayed in the respective sections. If you need further assistance or analysis regarding these images, let me know!

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Louise Matsakis @lmatsakis.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

NEW: Meta changed its Community Guidelines today to permit "allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality" @knibbs.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/meta-i...

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Meta Now Lets Users Say Gay and Trans People Have 'Mental Illness'

Meta rolled out a number of changes to its “Hateful Conduct” policy Tuesday as part of a sweeping overhaul of its approach toward content moderation.

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Rev’d Deacon Alex Griffin @alexmarcgriffin.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

This is a good reminder that when you’re transitioning, you just need to give yourself time. You will probably go through an ugly duckling phase, but you will come out on the other side. On the left is 2 years ago (just over 2 years on testosterone). On the right is me now.

Alex standing in a button-up & tie in front of a church building. He has the tiniest of chin beards.

Alex in a shirtless bathroom selfie. You can see his top surgery scars as shadows through his chest hair. He has a relatively full beard that connects but doesn’t quite cover his chin.

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Rev’d Deacon Alex Griffin @alexmarcgriffin.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

God gives his toughest battles (having to put on testosterone gel and be sticky when I want nothing more than to collapse into bed) to his tiredest soldiers 😫

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Rev’d Deacon Alex Griffin @alexmarcgriffin.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Serious suggestion for trans folks everywhere: get yourself a little treat every time you do an injection. It tricks your brain into thinking that you like this.

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Rev’d Deacon Alex Griffin @alexmarcgriffin.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

No, I’ve never been so tired out from the last full week Advent that I microwaved minute rice for 9 minutes instead of 90 seconds and then had to eat the weird, crunchy, burnt popcorn-eque rice anyway because I didn’t have any other quick food in the house, why do you ask?

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Rev’d Deacon Alex Griffin @alexmarcgriffin.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Trying to remind myself that even though somehow all 4 metro lines are down at once, I’m still lucky to live in a city with generally usable public transit.

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Rev’d Deacon Alex Griffin @alexmarcgriffin.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Your reminder that HRT is lifesaving on the 4th anniversary of my first dose of testosterone

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 11/12/2024

This is just horrifying. Absolute nightmare fuel. (P.S. Being able to avoid an epidural is a privilege.)

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Rev’d Deacon Alex Griffin @alexmarcgriffin.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I think what God is calling me to this Advent is to regain my hope that a better world is possible.

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Jordan Haynie Ware @godwelcomesall.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

This is upsetting news

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Rev’d Deacon Alex Griffin @alexmarcgriffin.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

People told me I was crazy for years for worrying about the very things that are happening now with both trans healthcare in the States and immigration in Canada. Here I am watching my worst fears unfold right before my eyes.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 07/12/2024

Top of the agenda is to go after providers of gender affirming care, including for adults. The FTC could also go after online platforms for displaying LGBTQ content which would be supercharged under KOSA. This is catastrophically bad.

Fight back against the trans agenda. Investigate the doctors, therapists, hospitals, and others who deceptively pushed gender confusion, puberty blockers, hormone replacement, and sex-change surgeries on children and adults while failing to disclose strong evidence that such interventions are not helpful and carry enormous risks

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 07/12/2024

Americans need to stop talking about this as a "distraction" and recognise that this is an institutional capture and effort towards purging a minority in development. They may not get as far as executing it if we are lucky, but this is work towards elimination of trans people in the USA.

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Rev’d Deacon Alex Griffin @alexmarcgriffin.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

The FTC of all organizations has a key part of their platform to target trans people.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 07/12/2024

It’s notable that in the Supreme Court hearing this week, justices and attorneys kept going back to the fact that if equal protection is denied, trans adults could be targeted just as much as trans youth.

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