Sukkot, Isidor Kaufmann, Late 19th To Early 20th Century

In Judaism, faith is not acceptance but protest, against the world that is, in the name of the world that is not yet but ought to be. Faith lies not in the answer but the question – and the greater the human being, the more intense the question.

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt"l, To Heal a Fractured World p.27

terfs are always like "men can have long hair and wear dresses and women can have short hair and wear suits!! stop erasing gnc people!!!" as if there are not hundreds upon hundreds of trans people who want to transition for the explicit purpose of being a man with long hair who wears dresses or a woman with short hair who wears suits. "trans people reinforce gender stereotypes!!" literally not anymore than cis people do? there are cis people who are gender conforming and cis people who are not. there are trans people who are gender conforming and trans people who are not. it's just that cis media only focuses on gender conforming trans people and terfs do not question this bc it suits their needs

i need to go into academia but purely for sexual reasons

There's a thing about pre-transition dissociation where like… every positive emotion feels thin and hollow, so living your life is completely based on removing pain rather than bringing in joy. There's no scales to balance, no assets to book against liabilities, just various misfortunes to avoid so you can distract yourself in a state of numb comfort. You ask yourself "would I be happier as a woman" and on one hand you picture all the difficulties, the effort, the prospect of being discriminated against (for being a woman or for being a tranny) and on the other hand you don't picture anything, and so you weigh those two hands up and go "haha yeah trans woman are cool and all but I'm sure I'm not one of them"

Muffin-induced ménage à trois