Luke A.B.'s Blogging

An update to the Transmasculine Suicide Remembrance blog-  Data Reality of the community in 2022 (content warning: discussion of suicide, transphobia) Almost a year ago, I published the first edition of my blog in remembrance of the transmasculine people that we have unfortunately lost to suicide . It's a vigil that I keep now by updating the blog with the names of people who have passed since I last updated it- though it is a strange thing to do, it's something very close to my heart as a trans man who has survived suicidality myself.  The transmasculine community is comprised of trans men and nonbinary people who self-define their genders (and transitions if applicable) as masculine. This blog focuses on them as neither group really enjoys much visibility in society. As such, our deaths (and especially our suicides) are very important to be aware of so that we can help to prevent more of them from happening in the community.  As a result of trawling the records of ...

  Transmasculine Data Spreadsheet- Name Age Location Year Month Age Bracket Kauê Vestemberg 22 Brazil 2022 January Twenties Gael Pandinho 19 Brazil 2022 January Teens Name Unknown 12 UK 2022 February Preteens Adrien Baptiste Luckas France 2022 March Unknown Milo Winslow 30 USA 2022 March Thirties Paulo Vaz 36 Brazil 2022 March Thirties Kenna Leigh Gillock 26 USA 2022 April Twenties Asher Garcia 14 USA 2022 April Teens Name Unknown 15 France 2022 May Teens Sasha 15 Italy 2022 June Teens Nicolas 25 France 2021 February Twenties Lucca Gomes 23 Brazil 2021 February Twenties Nicolas 15 Argentina 2021 March Teens Name Unknown 15 Australia 2021 March Teens Haven Bailey 25 USA 2021 May Twenties Santiago Cancinos 14 Argentina 2017 May Teens Tristan Frémont 19 France 2021 July Teens Samuel Boutry 20 France 2021 September Twenties Tal Piterbraut-Merx 29 France 2021 October Twenties Murilo Gonçalves Brazil 2020 January Unknown Alex McCray 22 USA 2020 January Twenties Lucas 21 Spain 2020 Januar...

  UK’s First Trans MP: a Conundrum for the Conservative Party? Earlier this year, Jamie Wallis MP came out as transgender. Following a car crash in late November 2021, he described his reaction to the incident as being linked to his Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), which he developed as a result of blackmail and rape. Wallis is an MP for the Conservative Party, having unseated Labour’s 30-year hold on the Bridgend constituency. This, combined with his transness, makes for a rather unusual situation for the Conservative Party at large, having spent the last twelve years introducing policies that have had a negative impact on the transgender community in the United Kingdom.  Wallis, in an interview with Sky News said that he wishes to transition as ‘quick as possible’ but also mentions that the process will be ‘challenging and difficult’ with ‘lots of hurdles’. Additionally, he mentioned that  ‘it's not going to be done overnight, it's going to take many, many years’...

  The Welsh Church 2- Electric Boogaloo (Hunting the oldest queer terms in Welsh) (or, 453 years is too long to keep calling us this) (Consider supporting me on my ko-fi here or my etsy here if you are able)  (CW: homophobic slurs in Welsh and English)  In my last essay about the homophobia and transphobia embedded in the Welsh Church (or Church in Wales) I wrote about the homophobic lines in Leviticus 18:22 and how there has been no edition of the Welsh Bible that does not have the homophobic implications of those lines. It got me thinking, what about the other, more dubious lines in the Bible that contain homophobia or even transphobia? And did this get extended into Welsh?  I began by gathering together all of the lines in the Bible known to be homophobic or justify homophobia. They are: Leviticus (Lefiticus) 18:22, Leviticus (Lefiticus) 20:13, 1 Corinthians (Corinthiaid) 6:9-10, 1 Kings (Brenhinoedd) 14:24, 1 Kings (Brenhinoedd) 15:12. In the King James Bible (...

The Welsh Church (Church in Wales) is still homophobic and transphobic: An Essay (Consider supporting me on my ko-fi here or my etsy here if you are able)  The Welsh church has a long history of homophobia and transphobia that is often overlooked when critically examining its power and status in Wales. If we are going to build a fair and free Wales for all, we need to be addressing the latent homophobia and transphobia within what would otherwise be, a fairly decent institution of Welsh culture.  Homophobia and transphobia has permeated much of society ever since strict ecclesiastical gender norms and gender roles came in and were enforced by the populace against anyone who appeared outside of these norms- either by way of their love of the same gender, or by their transgressing of the lines of gender itself and identifying with a gender that they were not assigned at birth.  Famously, the Bible is cited to justify church-based homophobia in Leviticus 18:22, which reads...