As I was work\u00ading our con\u00adtact table today on cam\u00adpus, a fresh\u00adman gal walked up and asked if we were a soror\u00adi\u00adty (which makes me think I should wear some\u00adthing less frilly tomor\u00adrow).<\/p>\n
As we are not, in fact, a soror\u00adi\u00adty I tried to muster the nec\u00ades\u00adsary words to com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adcate that we wel\u00adcome both males and females.<\/p>\n
The obvi\u00adous word is coed<\/em>. What I should have said is, \u201cNo, we\u2019re a coed Chris\u00adt\u00adian min\u00adistry.\u201d<\/p>\n But I had one of those sud\u00adden inabil\u00adi\u00adties to remem\u00adber the appro\u00adpri\u00adate word. My brain fran\u00adti\u00adcal\u00adly raced up and down the halls of my mind to seize a word that would help her under\u00adstand that Chi Alpha was both male and female.<\/p>\n I set\u00adtled on trans\u00adgen\u00adder<\/em>.<\/p>\n As in, \u201cNo, we\u2019re a trans\u00adgen\u00adder<\/em> group.\u201d<\/p>\n Not my finest ver\u00adbal hour.<\/p>\n As my brain slow\u00adly began to process the words that had come out of my mouth (which, dis\u00adtress\u00ading\u00adly enough, appear to be the over\u00adflow of my heart<\/a>) I become less and less coher\u00adent as I tried to throw more words into the ensu\u00ading silence, not unlike try\u00ading to repair a bul\u00adlet wound with more rounds of hot lead.<\/p>\n In the end, I think she under\u00adstood. <\/p>\n I sus\u00adpect she also thought I was a sad, strange lit\u00adtle man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As I was work\u00ading our con\u00adtact table today on cam\u00adpus, a fresh\u00adman gal walked up and asked if we were a soror\u00adi\u00adty (which makes me think I should wear some\u00adthing less frilly tomor\u00adrow). As we are not, in fact, a soror\u00adi\u00adty I tried to muster the nec\u00ades\u00adsary words to com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adcate that we wel\u00adcome both males \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cAn Unfor\u00adtu\u00adnate Men\u00adtal Blank\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stanfordministry-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-6f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}