#gender ministry
Text
Deputy Gender Minister designate denies allegation of conflict of interest in purchase of sanitisers
Deputy Gender Minister designate denies allegation of conflict of interest in purchase of sanitisers
The Deputy Minister for Gender and Social Protection nominee, Francisca Oteng-Mensah has denied allegation of conflict of interest levelled against her in the procurement of sanitisers during the peak of Covid-19 pandemic.
The Kwabre East MP was accused of using her influence as the Board Chairperson of the National Youth Authority (NYA) in 2020 to lead the board in approving the procurement of…
View On WordPress
#CHRAJ#Conflict of Interest#Corruption#Francisca Oteng-Mensah#Gender Ministry#Parliament&039;s Appointment Committee
0 notes
Text
I guess I never had much of a chance.
I just started watching Jessie Gender on Youtube's essay about masculinity and... it hit like a goddamn truck. So much of what she talks about in her past so closely mirrors my own, it's downright eerie. Down to the fact that I was an Eagle Scout. Although, to be fair, it sounds like she had a much better time in it than I did, considering I never really made many friends in my boy scout troop, and I never worked any of the camps.
But to the point... I really did echo a lot of her experience. I tried my hardest to be a man. To live up to the ideals of masculinity that society enforces. But I was never going to be anything close to that. I was always too fat, too sensitive, too emotional, and too unathletic to ever be anything close to Western Masculinity (tm).
I did try though. I was desperate to be seen as something close to approaching masculine, but it came out in such strange ways.
For those who don't know me in person, I grew up in the United Methodist Church, quite literally. My dad was a pastor all his life, and that's the only life I knew growing up. As such, we lived life "in a fishbowl," as we'd call it. That means we were supposed to be the Model Family. Above all reproach, under all scrutiny. If any of us stepped out of line, we were going to be reprimanded for it. Do you folks on here have any idea what that does to a kid? My parents loved me, to be sure, and I bear them little ill will. They did their best under the circumstances. But we were a religious family in Texas. There's very little non-conformity afforded to us. My mother, God bless her, she already bucked tradition. She wasn't exactly feminine, mostly. Sure, she wore dresses, wore makeup, even went square dancing with my dad. But she had little time for the trappings of femininity, and only wore them under obligation. She did not enjoy being a pastor's spouse, for the most part. She endured it, for my Dad's sake, but she made no secret that she wasn't going to pretend to be some Stepford Wife bizarro Tammy Faye Bakker. Not her.
So I grew up with my dad, a uniquely anxious person, stressed about how me and my brother were going to make it. My dad was a pretty old-school guy, but at heart he was a bleeding heart liberal, as much as one could be in Texas in the 80's and 90's in religious circles. There's not a single Democratic president he didn't vote for. He was Democrat til he dies. Yet... that could never be public knowledge. Not in the church. Not in Texas. So already, we became bearers of secrets. Mom isn't a pastor's wife. Dad isn't a Republican. And so we were taught to bear our own secrets.
I'm neurodivergent. I have ADHD. And I am almost entirely incapable of telling a lie. (Ask my partner, she knows!) But little secrets... that was a matter of survival. Little secrets, for the benefit of the Image. Everyone has them, I learned. But God help you if your secrets ever got out.
So I learned, and learned, and learned some more. I'd ask questions, and to their credit my parents answered most of them truthfully, if they could. But there were some things you do not question.
One of them was gender. But I did not know that word.
How could I?
Not in that environment. Not in the fishbowl. Not in Texas. Not in the church.
Girls did x, boys did y, and that's that. Girls were x, boys were y, and that's it. End of discussion. Black and white.
There were signs I did not conform. I loved the show Barney and Friends... until I overheard kids at school call it a show for girls and little babies. Not a show for boys.
Overnight I stopped watching.
I used to sleep with a blanket every night. I loved, adored that little blanket. I found solace in Linus from Peanuts, and his little blue blanket. But my father chafed at its ever-presence. He never said anything against it, but he didn't have to. I could tell. So my mother, God bless her, she stitched me and my brother some pillows with fun animal designs on them. They substituted for the blanket. Father approved, as they had things like tigers and killer whales on them, which were Boy Approved (tm) things to like.
But then there was the ladybug puppet. It was a cute little stuffed ladybug that fit on my hand, and it even had an extra leg so as to be anatomically accurate. I slept with that every night.
Until my mother told me that dad didn't want me to do it anymore. He was worried it was too "feminine." And she said it in a very sing-song voice, a teasing tone I grew all too familiar with.
So into the closet the puppet went. And me with it.
I became hyper-vigilant about what could be perceived as "feminine" from there on out. I watched what I did like a hawk, trying never to ever raise the annoyance or ire of my dad or my peers. But it was never enough. As anyone who has ever had to play that game of gender chess, there was never going to be any chance for someone who is a trans girl to ever be anything but, even if they didn't know that was what they were.
I didn't hear the word "transgender" until I was in grad school. By then, I had already felt a call to ministry. By then, I had long ago locked up all gender nonconformity in a closet back when I was in grade school. I had lost an entire childhood, teenhood, early young adulthood. And by then, I felt like they described what being trans was like, as if it was for someone else. Glad I didn't deal with that issue!
But I did. I simply did not allow myself to question things. Did not allow myself to break the box I was put in as a child. Because I was a white guy, going to be a pastor. I figured I would just be that all my life.
Life has changed about three times since then. I only allowed myself to ask myself the hard gender questions in October of last year. I was 35. I'm turning 36 this next month.
I'm starting my life over again, a fourth time. But I'm actually looking forward to the future, for the first time in my entire life.
Because now it actually exists.
#lgbtq#gender#transgender#childhood#church#religion#christianity#biography#jessie gender#ministry#united methodist church#texas#the south#queer#in the closet#trans femme#trans feminine#personal
26 notes
·
View notes
Text
Trans Copia where no one in the ministry knows he's trans is actually something that's so important to me
#I lied#One person in the ministry knows about it#It's a sibling of sin and they were having moral issues about their gender#So Copia told them#And the sibling promised to take the secret to their grave#ghost#ghost band#ghost bc#papa emeritus#headcanons#my works#headcanon#Copia#cardinal copia#Trans copia
38 notes
·
View notes
Text
I hate going to Christian-based hospitals. There's a bible verse slide show on the screens that other places usually have medical information graphics and resources on and I just got asked "Do you have a source of peace in your life?" like babygirl I'm here for neurological pain my source of peace is Lidocaine 4% and a heating pad
#The nurse was definitely lgbt because he came back and asked me for my pronouns when I know good and well that's not in the system here#We talked about his cool ass crocs and he was like 'yea I know they're weird questions but I'm required to ask'#Cause they're all like 'do you have a source of peace and joy' and 'do you have a spiritual reason not to partake in any medications here?'#which is nice in concept like wanting to avoid pork-based or gelatin-based products#and things like that#but when it's paired with all of the bible verses and 'extending the healing ministry of christ' being the hospital's slogan#well.....#all of the screens are verses about joy as if this isn't one of the most miserable places to be#they're unfortunately one of the few places in my area tho that treat CFS/ME 😔✌️#It's probably very nice for older people here fighting for their lives#and I understand/respect that#but I've got a therapy appointment after this and I'm gonna go Off#I just realized how tense I got about this Im actively trying to relax my body#my blood pressure was 140/93 sitting and 148/91 standing#which is Not Good#this entire hospital sets off my fight or flight#they're infamously known in my area not to treat transgender patients with respect#both as a community thing and from people talking to me individually#I went on a long tangent about my gender but it was just rambling lol#anyways be gay do crime don't go to christian based hospitals if you can help it#ex christian#religious trauma
20 notes
·
View notes
Text
'The riot is inside us. The war is inside us. [...] It will never settle down. It can't.' Aftab desperately wanted to contradict her, to tell her she was dead wrong, because he was happy, happier than he had ever been before. He was living proof that Nimmo Gorakhpuri was wrong, was he not? But he said nothing, because it would have involved revealing himself as not being a 'normal people', which he was not yet prepared to do.
Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
#Arundhati Roy#The Ministry of Utmost Happiness#booklr#book quotes#quotes#coming out#trans visibility#growing up gay#lgbtqia#this is me struggling to find the right tags to reach the ppl the quote is about lol#gender identity
2 notes
·
View notes
Text
sometimes the greatest blow to the ego is recognizing that my ideal 100k canon compliant copia fic would be boring as all hell.
#copiaposting#real ones may remember the thing i started in. man i dunno. august? earlier? that has since been deleted from my ao3.#because i decided i disliked literally every part of it that related to the ministry having ANY sort of lore.#the ideal version of that really would have just been copia learning how to live alone and go grocery shopping.#and have a thing with that bear i made up.#but because the entire “why is this even happening” justification i came up with for it started to annoy me SO BAD i just had to scrap it.#the plan was to revisit it with a justification i liked better that had zero reliance on fanon nonsense i absorbed via osmosis.#but then i wrote conundrum (favorite fic i've ever written of All Time Ever) instead so no complaints there.#i think long form canon compliant copiafic just isn't in the cards for me but i do like putting out a random short gender fic occasionally.
5 notes
·
View notes
Link
Alistair Begg recently sat down with Simon Calvert from the Christian Institute to discuss how believers, and especially church leaders, should respond to challenges to biblical teaching in the form of broadening so-called “conversion therapy” bans. In this interview, he focuses...
#blog#Truth for Life Ministries#Alistair Begg#Responding to Gender and Sexuality Issues with Biblical Conviction#gentleness#clarity#blog.truthforlife.org
8 notes
·
View notes
Text
nothing like a father. well.
#nothing like a father to make you feel stupid about things you're passionate about#timothy's txts.#i was so excited about talking about whether or not women could serve in ministry#and whether or not paul actually said they could be deacons or not and stuff like that#and then suddenly i'm being warned about progressive churches and taking the gender out of god#nothing like a big ol' threat to tradition and conservatism to have your parents cut you down at the knees#anyways it's still my favourite class forever <3#anyways my dad firmly believes women cannot and should not be in authority over men when it comes to stuff like that <3#i miss her (<- talking in the class itself about the classism and racism and sexism in whether or not you believe women can be#missionaries and kids teachers but not pastors)#anyways BACK to my assignment i love daniel i can't wait to see what mark says about daniel and the words they use#ouauaghaughh i am normal and fine and i feel normal and fine and i am not at all affected by feeling stupid#i love you context i love you interpretation i love you translation i love you original wording i love you genres#i love you things i will never understand because the times it was written for and from are too separate from now....
9 notes
·
View notes
Text
youtube
3 notes
·
View notes
Text
Ada Hall: One of the First Female Deacons
Ada Hall: One of the First Female Deacons
The November 25, 1913, Free Methodist had a front-page tribute to the first women deacons.
The 1911 Free Methodist General Conference took steps to finally allow women some form of ordination. Now, women could become ordained deacons at the annual conference level, but with the cavet that “this ordination of women shall not be considered a step towards ordination as an elder.”1
I’ll write about…
View On WordPress
#Ada Hall#Anna Bright#Bersha Green#Deacons#Free Methodist#Free Methodist Church#Gender Roles#Laura Lamb#Minnie Beers#women in ministry
2 notes
·
View notes
Text
Finally some common sense news
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Transgender women are not eligible for menstrual leave as they do not have uteruses and do not menstruate, the Ministry of Labor (MOL) said on Thursday (Feb. 10).
CNA reported that after a transgender woman recently applied to take a menstrual day off at her company, the company was unsure of whether she was eligible and asked the local government. The local government passed the question on to the MOL, which consulted the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW).
The MOHW responded to the MOL with an explanation from the Taiwan Association of Obstetrics and Gynecology (TAOG), that transgender women who have received gender reassignment surgery and officially registered their changed sex do not have uteruses and do not menstruate. Since the purpose of the menstrual leave is to provide relief to those who may suffer physical discomfort at work while menstruating, the policy does not apply to transgender women as they do not go through the experience.
According to the Act of Gender Equality in Employment, female employees may legally apply to take one day off for menstrual leave each month if they experience menstruation-related discomfort that prevents them from working. The employees do not need to provide any documentation to apply, and employers may not refuse, issue a penalty, or deem the day off as an absence that affects the employee’s attendance bonus or performance evaluation.
CNA cited the MOL as saying that there is no age limit to employees eligible for the menstrual leave, therefore older women may also take a day off each month as needed. Meanwhile, for women whose uterus or ovary has been removed due to health concerns, as long as the employee still ovulates and experiences discomfort due to hormonal changes, she is eligible for the menstrual leave.
#Taiwan#Menstrual leave#Men don't get periods#Ministry of Labor (MOL)#Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW)#Taiwan Association of Obstetrics and Gynecology (TAOG)#Someone needed to hear from a doctor that men don't have uteruses#That should just be common sense#Act of Gender Equality in Employment
9 notes
·
View notes
Text
PRE-QUALIFICATION OF SUPPLIERS FOR SUPPLY/PROVISION OF GOODS AND SERVICES FOR FY 2024/2025 - MINISTRY OF GENDER
MINISTRY OF GENDER, CULTURE, THE ARTS, AND HERITAGE TENDER JANUARY 2024
TENDER NOTICE
DATE:
30/01/2024
REFERENCE:
MGCAH/SDGAA/02/2023-2024
TENDER NAME:
PRE-QUALIFICATION/REGISTRATION OF SUPPLIERS FOR SUPPLY/PROVISION OF GOODS AND SERVICES FOR 2023-2024 & 2024- 2025 FINANCIAL YEARS
The MINISTRY OF GENDER, CULTURE, THE ARTS, AND HERITAGE, State Department for Gender and
Affirmative Action…
View On WordPress
0 notes
Text
Officially the Palestinian death toll has passed 30,000. As this article will tell you, the official count is far below the actual death count
Gaza's health ministry said Thursday that the number of Palestinians killed in the war has surpassed 30,000. The official number now stands at 30,035 deaths. The figure is widely viewed as the most reliable one available.
The health ministry provided NPR with one of its latest reports on the death toll, 38 pages long, to analyze. A close look at how Gaza's health ministry counts those killed in the war reveals a system that is buckling under the weight of war and unable to keep an accurate toll of the dead.
Thousands remain unaccounted for — either missing under the rubble, buried hastily in side streets or decomposing in areas that can't be safely reached.
The Gaza health ministry says its daily tally now relies on a combination of accurate death counts from hospitals that are still partially operating, and on estimates from media reports to assess deaths in the north of Gaza, where Israeli forces control access. Its detailed daily report shows that its electronic system for counting the dead was disrupted on Nov. 12, when communication was lost with three major hospitals in the north, soon followed by more in other parts of Gaza.
In the early days of the war, as the wounded and dead streamed into hospitals, Gaza's health ministry kept a detailed daily count of the number of people killed. Public and private hospitals were recording into an electronic database the names, ages, genders and ID numbers of the dead.
#yemen#jerusalem#tel aviv#current events#palestine#free palestine#gaza#free gaza#news on gaza#palestine news#news update#war news#war on gaza#genocide#gaza genocide
11K notes
·
View notes
Note
tell me about stone butch blues secondo
covers my face. i did ask for this.
anyway i think secondo is transmasc in the sbb way and was a pretty butch kid too so nihil was an inattentive enough parent that he legit never realized he was raising a lesbian. and i think secondo has extremely complicated feelings about this because he wants to be able to acknowledge himself as a lesbian but he also knows the ministry is not super cool about women being papa. and nihil specifically is like. mr "liking femdom makes me a feminist" and he fundamentally thinks women have specific roles in the ministry. so it's just this weird like. constant on-guard kind of attitude that secondo has to have in order to preserve the life he wants. which, imo, is why he has a more serious stage presence than terzo and copia after him. because he has probably seen some shit and also thinks he has more to lose. anyway secondo isn't dead he's. fine. he's out someplace living with his trans drag queen girlfriend. even sbb got a happy ending right. r
#ask#homosekularnost#ghost ministry gender politics are insane and messed up but in somewhat unique ways. to me.#back to my old reliable hc that you can do what you want as papa as long as you're still a man and getting with women in some capacity.#and then secondo is over here like. butch anxiety mode and living in semi-constant fear.#and copia is like whoops i'm also. a woman sometimes. and i only want to get with men. (isn't getting with anyone. but still)#nihil is only sticking around as a ghost so he can continue to give his kids emotional and mental damage.
4 notes
·
View notes
Link
by Mike Stonestreet and Kasey Leander | Too many young people have been made pawns in a cultural game that pits reality against itself, convinced that their developmentally common feelings mean they somehow were “born in the wrong body,” and unaware that these feelings will likely dissipate once puberty and the spell of social contagion run their course...
#Gender Transition for Minors: What Does the Research Say?#Breakpoint Ministries#Mike Stonestreet#Kasey Leander#LGBTQ#breakpoint.org
9 notes
·
View notes
Text
A year ago I woke up to breaking news of around a hundred people having died at Halloween festivities. The number kept going up through it the week and reached 151. I remember I was so worried that anyone I knew was there, fortunately they weren't. Now it's been a year and so much corruption means only newer police officers are on trial for negligence, but the ones with seniority are out of the picture. In a situation like this the president should go to fucking jail
#you have so much blood on your habds yun seokyeol#i always hated you#but after this it just skyrocketed#i could never forget sbout you riding s platform based on taking healthcare away from noncitizens#and aiming to defund the ministry of gender equality#and all the other shitty fucking things#but then this happened#and 365 days later there is no accountability#we were told it was the victims' fault for attending festivities about a FOREIGN holiday#do they even understand how many children died#how many people VISITING died#it wasnt just citizens#seoul crowd crush 2022#why do all my tags have typos
1 note
·
View note
Last Seen Blogs
male-vore-belly
Male Vore & Bellies
nylyreva
Gary Wilkins
deltasly
Untitled
charliedawn
Fandoms imagines
anesh8052
Untitled