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Ellie Roscher

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
648 total appearances

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Debunking Myths About Trans Athletes With Ellie Roscher

And we have to talk about it in the context of trans athletes.

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Debunking Myths About Trans Athletes With Ellie Roscher

I know we'll get there.

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Debunking Myths About Trans Athletes With Ellie Roscher

This idea that men are inherently superior to women, when you add the God layer to that, that God created men superior to women, that's an uphill battle.

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Debunking Myths About Trans Athletes With Ellie Roscher

But I'm going to argue that that residue is still there.

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Debunking Myths About Trans Athletes With Ellie Roscher

The other thing that got kind of formed in this early church is this idea that your mind is pure and your body is dirty.

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Debunking Myths About Trans Athletes With Ellie Roscher

So to get closer to God, you transcend your body.

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Debunking Myths About Trans Athletes With Ellie Roscher

You climb up out of it into your mind to get closer to God.

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Debunking Myths About Trans Athletes With Ellie Roscher

Interesting.

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Debunking Myths About Trans Athletes With Ellie Roscher

That's not my experience.

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Debunking Myths About Trans Athletes With Ellie Roscher

Well, that's interesting because that almost goes with like Eastern.

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Debunking Myths About Trans Athletes With Ellie Roscher

You got it.

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Debunking Myths About Trans Athletes With Ellie Roscher

You got it.

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Debunking Myths About Trans Athletes With Ellie Roscher

So this is very white.

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Debunking Myths About Trans Athletes With Ellie Roscher

It's very Western Christianity.

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Debunking Myths About Trans Athletes With Ellie Roscher

Okay.

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Debunking Myths About Trans Athletes With Ellie Roscher

where you have to ignore the body.

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Debunking Myths About Trans Athletes With Ellie Roscher

You have to say your body is dirty to get closer to God.

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Debunking Myths About Trans Athletes With Ellie Roscher

You get closer to purity.

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Debunking Myths About Trans Athletes With Ellie Roscher

You get up into your mind.

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Debunking Myths About Trans Athletes With Ellie Roscher

Think about the pinnacle of the Greek society, which is where the early church formed, would be a man who's a philosopher or a politician who sits still, puts his feet up, and lives in his mind.