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Thank you so much, John. Powerful and beautiful.

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John-I am so grateful for your insight. Thank you for writing honestly and vulnerably.

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Thanks. I felt like I’ve waited way too long to put these thoughts in writing.

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Because of my own neuropsychiatric disorder, I posit that gender dysphoria is persistent false belief and disordered reality that a person who is naturally born as one gender that such birth gender is a mistake made by a Creator and actually prefers to present as a different gender. Since my psychoses and delusions are not acceptable to the common society then I cannot in good conscience indulge the psychoses and delusions of anyone else.

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It’s your right to deny the existence of trans people but I choose to believe them when they tell me their stories.

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Respectfully, Mr Hawthorne, I believe it's about loving the person as God does while not loving the aberrant behavior

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I admit their existence. As with all other human beings, so long as they harm no other persons, I can allow them to proceed as they choose because that is the Law.

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