It's so wild to me that as a community we're still so hostile to multigender and genderfluid people existing in gay and lesbian spaces.
You...are aware that people who are both men and women are allowed to be gay, right? And lesbian? Their other genders doesn't cancel their connection to womanhood, or manhood, or whatever else they id with. They are allowed to be gay despite their fem-alignment, and they are allowed to be lesbian despite their masc-alignment.
It comes from these weird online spaces that the standard to be gay or lesbian is to be a "non-woman" or a "non-man," which is inherently transmultiphobic and...extremely ahistorical. And completely misunderstands nonbinary identity. So if you're both then you just don't belong anywhere I suppose.
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people say a lot of shit about jewish dna tests, and i am bored, and willing to take one for the team because 23andme leaked my data anyway, you can have a look at mine:
So, as you can see I have one Ashkenazi Jewish parent (my mom) and one goyishe parent (my dad). He's English if it matters.
From my mom I inherited 100% Ashkenazi Jewish DNA, which makes sense because she and her parents all come back as 100% Ashki.
But what *is* Ashkenazi DNA?
To parse out my sample I use a tool called illustrative DNA, which tests your DNA against ancient populations. it struggles with people from mixed backgrounds, but here's what it comes up with for me
in the Bronze age:
Iron Age:
"Migration Period:"
And Middle Ages:
Now, the percentages don't tell you about who I am. I am a Ashkenazi Jew. This identity comes from a mix of ethnic history and my upbringing. But they tell you about who my ancestors were.
I'm not a Canaanite, but my ancestors were.
I'm not Phoenecian (their sample for the iron age Levant), but my ancestors were.
I don't live in the Roman Levant, but my ancestors did.
And this is exactly what we've been saying all along. This is the take away from these results. My ancestors came from the levant, like my cultural tradition and history say.
And really, these genetic tests are the least important and compelling evidence for our concept of Jewish indigeneity. There are texts, historical artifacts, and cultural traditions that are way more important and compelling, since the most important traits of indigeneity are culture based, not genetics based, since indigenous groups all have methods of self conception and identification that predate even the knowledge that genes existed. this is why judaism accepts converts (read: cultural adoptees) even if conversion is relatively rare, because what we call " judaism" is primarily a set of cultural-religious traditions that don't involve proselytization.
Basically if you want your "scientific" evidence you can have it, but really, just shut the fuck up about Jews and DNA tests, stop acting like an authority on things you don't know jack shit about, and LEAVE US ALONE.
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