Michael Airhart is a data scientist, interfaith advocate, and former newswire editor.
A new U.S. government report confirms that forced #detransition and #gendercritical denial of health care and freedom do serious medical and psychological harm to #transgender people.
https://medium.com/@mairhart/transition-is-not-conversion-therapy-2749756c7b14
#Wokeness is as old as the Book of Genesis -- and just as integral to Biblical faith and practice.
Here are thirty #woke #Bible passages that Jews and Christians already know by heart.
So why are these passages ignored or even mocked by many of these same people?
https://woke.tips/the-bible-without-its-wokeness-is-barren-444f9d1fef7c
The Declaration of Independence upholds a #woke vision of #equity in which Americans are promised equal opportunity -- not equal outcome.
https://woke.tips/equity-in-the-u-s-declaration-of-independence-a872c6a5a5af
Constitutional law expert Wilfred Codrington III and other analysts contend that Constitutional #equality can't happen without #equity.
https://woke.tips/equity-in-the-u-s-constitution-922f9a06d32c
"#Jews are not truly white, but yet in a way many of us are, particularly those of us who are light-pigmented. Some of us are both and so we must wear the yoke of oppressor and the oppressed. This is the essence of #Judaism and the universalism of the prophets."
https://woke.tips/being-woke-is-the-most-jewish-thing-5c1094fe160
"I am #woke because being woke is the most #Jewish thing there is. And for Jews it means playing a dual role. ...
"As an open #orthodox Rabbi, I agree that there are walls in halacha but walls can be torn down and rebuilt. They can be remodeled and repainted. Social justice is the most halachic thing a religious Jew can do in Israel, Europe, or the USA which has still not overcome her legacy of lynchings and Jim Crow."
-- Benyamin Zahav
https://woke.tips/being-woke-is-the-most-jewish-thing-5c1094fe160
All of us are to each other
the limbs of a single body, each of us drawn
from life’s shimmering essence, God’s perfect pearl;
and when this life we share wounds one of us,
all share the hurt as if it were our own.
You, who will not feel another’s pain,
you forfeit the right to be called human.
https://woke.tips/saadi-of-shiraz-and-the-noble-heart-ab09c1efb193
In 2015, Richard Neave’s sketch of #Jesus of Nazareth drew praise for relying upon actual archaeological evidence of ancient Semitic skulls found in the region of Galilee, and not the imagination of Renaissance-era artists in Europe.
https://woke.tips/rw-approximating-a-forensic-jesus-4eb8b803516e
In 2019, when Bas Uterwijk provided the #artbreeder #AI with numerous Byzantine and Renaissance-era depictions of #jesus adapted for cultural accuracy, the app generated a photo-realistic merger of those images. The result went #viral.
Hamza Yusuf, president of Zaytuna College, shares a humorous and mind-bending story from Imam #alGhazali about the possession of spiritual knowledge and voluntary poverty, for the holy month of #Ramadan
https://woke.tips/imam-al-ghazali-and-the-thief-eab2daceecce
If someone supports censorship, termination, eviction, arrest, and denial of health care against me and my friends, who are sex, gender, ethnic, or religious minorities, then why would I still be family with that person?
Ryan Short is right to hold his family accountable.
He was subsequently driven off Twitter (as I have been) by harassment from people who hate freedom and opportunity for everyone but themselves.
The U.S. #border refugee crossings were prompted by U.S. deportation of gangs, U.S. wars in Central America, and U.S. trade policies that took critical jobs away from Central America during its recovery from war.
https://medium.com/@mairhart/how-americans-started-the-border-immigration-crisis-ba29327cc27b
Medical leaders agree: Gender affirming care protects all youth, regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation.
#genderaffirming #genderaffirmative
American Medical Association:
https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/population-care/what-know-about-gender-affirming-care-younger-patients
Association of American Medical Colleges:
https://aamc.org/news-insights/what-gender-affirming-care-your-questions-answered
Columbia University Dept. of Psychiatry:
https://www.columbiapsychiatry.org/news/gender-affirming-care-saves-lives
Scientific American:
https://scientificamerican.com/article/what-the-science-on-gender-affirming-care-for-transgender-kids-really-shows/
How common is #transgender #regret? How many youth really change their appearances with hormones or surgery, and how many later change their minds and #detransition?
