you can keep your churches. Trans people have suffered at their hands for thousands of years and continue to do so. Even in supposedly secular countries, their laws are based upon religious teachings and bigotries. Just look at all the rows going on about 'same-sex' marriages and all the crap being spouted by religious associations and churches.

It was religion that fomented all the divisive and destructive crap surrounding marriage and the subjugation of women 7,000 to 10,000 years ago when agriculture first emerged and human nomads made the connection between planting seeds and growing corn. Once this connection was made, men presumed that they were the creators of ' the seed' and women were demoted to 'the earth'. The miraculous transformation of seed into life was accorded massive religious significance and contributed almost entirely to the translation of mother earth to the sky father as the creator of life.

Religion, starting with the Judaic Sky Father right up to the present day, has perpetuated this obscene imbalance of the responsibility for life in our present day cultures. Women were treated as chattels (possessions) for thousands of years and only recently have begun to recover their respected status that primitive humans accorded them as the producers of life.

Religion is the cause of all wars whether over land, property, crowns and succession or human rights. As to children's rights, happiness and protections vis-à-vis religion, the less said the better.

Churches! No matter what the faith!

You can keep them.

Bev.