Hello Mr David Lynch!

But also, look at this nonsense. It's definitely giving "tell me your Churchwarden and Treasurer are, with their ages combined, under 60, without telling me that your Churchwarden and Treasurer are, with their ages combined, under 60."

Also big thanks to the Cathedral for letting us use the new heritage and learning centre which has heating and a big screen in it for this meeting.

Like I have come away from a 45 minute budget presentation reassured and informed and also... Entertained?

When I was a Subdeacon, one of the priests in the parochial house said his two main daily prayers started with: “Well Lord this is all a mess … “ and “Dear Lord, keep my fists by my side through this day’s ignorance and strife …” After a few months, I understood why.

Sometimes at church someone says or does something so stupid that the only thing you can do is lock yourself inside the vestry, open up the cupboard, and scream into the robes so that the fabric muffles the sound. It's a form of prayer.

Can I interest you in a VERY silly church tower?

Wish me godspeed, etc.

I'm obsessed with you

And I don't appreciate you stating that the truth of my own healthcare and personal situation is not only wrong, but enables transphobes to remove my, and others, basic rights.

With respect, I know my health better than you do. One very simple example is that testosterone affects the properties of your blood (thickness, etc) and a sudden change in that can in many cases lead to heart attack and stroke. Which often lead to death.

There was none given.

As always when I post about being trans, a reminder: if you support me because I'm "normal" or "reasonable" or whatever because I dress like an old man & go to church, but you don't support all my trans siblings, then you don't actually support me at all, & I encourage you to do some soul searching.

There is simply no medical reason to take a person, cold-turkey, off of a medication they've been stable on for almost a decade, with no offer of anything else - and when the lack of that medication causes irreversible lifelong issues up to and including death.

If you think that the current state of trans healthcare in the UK is because of concern or caution, I'd encourage you to think again.

It's not medically informed, it's a reactionary response to transphobic bigotry whipped up into a frenzy over the past few years.

And it costs lives.

I have been able to regain access to my necessary medication (and thankfully was able to avoid going without during my fight for it). But I know many people who are having the exact same fight right now. Including people who've been settled on hormones even longer than I.