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Virginia college students are running a thrift store for transgender and nonbinary people (www.advocate.com)

submitted 7 months ago by tree to c/[email protected]

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Transgender people looking to change up their wardrobes are often met with financial barriers. At a private college in Virginia, LGBTQ+ students are working to break down those walls with a no cost food and clothing pantry.

Dell Thrift and Pantry at the University of Lynchburg provides free clothing, including binders, for members of the community, as well as nonperishable food. While it is geared towards transgender and gender-nonconforming pupils, all students and staff are welcome, 24/7.

The pantry opened in September after receiving a grant of $1,600 in startup funds from the university's Innovation Collaborative program. It is manned by 20 volunteer students, and accepts clothing donations from its patrons, as well as monthly food donations from the Park View Community Mission and the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank.

Dell Thrift and Pantry also features a fund specifically for binders, which can be requested through a QR code on the bulletin board outside the shop. Patrons can fill in their information and receive one in their mail, delivered discretely.

Quality binders are often expensive, and using cheap ones can have adverse health effects. The binders provided by Dell Thrift come from GC2b, which are not only designed with safety in mind, but also created "by trans people, for trans people," according to their website.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (8 children)

If you call yourself a Christian, and you're a Catholic, are you also lending credibility to Mormons, Episcopalians, Southern Baptists, Presbyterians, and Branch Davidians?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Mormons aren't Christian

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

The fuck they aren't. It's in the goddamned name.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Mormons don’t believe in the Trinity as established in the Council of Nicaea and the Council of Chalcedon 1500+ years ago. Christians disagree on a whole hell of a lot of things, but the nature of God isn’t one of them. Mormonism is a heretical cult that’s as Christian as Islam is

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

So different sects of Christianity can have different dogmas, just not that one, right. What makes Mormons any more or less wrong than, say, Catholics?

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