(i ripped this off wikipedia real fast so sorry if it's lib)
In October 1776, the Public Universal Friend contracted an epidemic disease and was bedridden and near death with a high fever. Their family summoned a doctor from Attleboro, six miles away, and neighbors kept up a death-watch at night. The fever broke after several days. The Friend later reported that [deadname redacted] had died, receiving revelations from God through two archangels who proclaimed there was "Room, Room, Room, in the many Mansions of eternal glory for Thee and for everyone". The Friend further said that [deadname redacted]'s soul had ascended to heaven and the body had been reanimated with a new spirit charged by God with preaching his word, that of the "Publick Universal Friend", describing that name in the words of Isaiah 62:2 as "a new name which the mouth of the Lord hath named".
From that time on, the Friend refused to answer to their deadname, ignoring or chastising those who insisted on using it. When visitors asked if it was the name of the person they were addressing, the Friend simply quoted Luke 23:3 ("thou sayest it"). Identifying as neither male nor female, the Friend asked not to be referred to with gendered pronouns. Followers respected these wishes; they referred only to "the Public Universal Friend" or short forms such as "the Friend" or "P.U.F.", and many avoided gender-specific pronouns even in private diaries. When someone asked if the Friend was male or female, the preacher replied "I am that I am", saying the same thing to a man who criticized the Friend's manner of dress (adding, in the latter case, "there is nothing indecent or improper in my dress or appearance; I am not accountable to mortals").
editorial note: I think this is a very cool story and I really love hearing it. We've been around forever and we've been doing variations of this forever. It's really beautiful
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Got back in to playing State of Decay 2 again (CW transphobia, REDDIT)
In that game all of the survivors are randomly generated, but there's a limited number of premade faces, and those are apparently based of the studio staff in real life. I got a survivor who is a woman and they're kind of clocky, which I feel is a weird thing for me to think about a randomized fictional character, but there is a significant number of trans programmers etc so it's quite likely they're based on a real trans woman and it's cool to have trans representation in a the game.
So I tried to work out online if that was the case and indirectly found a reddit thread where gamers were talking about how in State of Decay 2 the game will also randomly assign gender neutral names/nicknames and they/them pronouns to survivors, which is cool and I hadn't realised that. And chuds were getting mad about it and saying people were misunderstanding the game just using plural they, despite other players showing evidence of singular they being used and the actual code that has gender m/f/x etc.
Then there was a comment saying "Trans people couldn't survive the zombie apocalypse due to all the chemicals they take" and it's a locked 3 year old thread and I don't have a reddit account anymore so it's not like I'm going to reply. But what an insane comment. Chemicals? You mean exogenous hormones +/- anti-androgens. And trans people who do not take HRT are still trans and valid, which might be a survivor in the zombie apocalypse. But also 18mths into a zombie apocalypse you might still find anti-androgens and HRT on the shelves of otherwise ransacked pharmacies, because people would take the painkillers and antibiotics leave all the rest. Finally you can get survivors with pharmaceutical training in game to craft painkillers and zombie cures, I think they could whip up some DIY hormones too.