Queerness, Christianity, Autism and Vaginismus with Andy Thornton

Doing It! with Hannah Witton

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Health & Fitness, Relationships, Sexuality, Society & Culture

4.8 • 651 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the first Doing It episode of 2021! In this episode, Hannah is joined by Andy Thornton (they/he), who is a bigender illustrator, sex educator for the School of Sexuality Education, and Stonewall's Person of Faith role model. Andy discusses their experience being queer and non-binary as well as what being bigender means to him and how the way they identify relates to being a Christian. He and Hannah talk about the difference between tolerating and affirming Christian communities, social constructs of gender, and go on a tangent about language and sexual orientation. Finally, Hannah and Andy also discuss autism and vaginismus. It's a jam-packed episode this week!

MORE ABOUT ANDY THORNTON
I'm a Stonewall LGBTQ+ Person of Faith Role Model so I make noise about how God loves queers, and I mentor young people who are struggling with their Christian and queer identities and help them to embrace and love themselves! I'm also technically an author and illustrator as I published a trans children's book called Rebekah's Secret Grandpa. I've just graduated in Sociology at Bath after doing an art foundation at Oxford Brookes, and now I'm a freelance digital marketer and illustrator, working mainly with SSE (+ facilitating in schools) and Rixxo. My dissertation researched experiences of trans and bi Christians who are excluded from both queer and Christian spaces, with hour long interviews with 17 students who identified with one or both of those identities. I recently talked about my findings, and my experience as a queer Christian Quaker, on the podcast Blessed Are The Binary Breakers (which was split out into two episodes: 1 & 2), and about being a trans ally on the podcast Nobody Panic.

- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/humansatsuma/
- Art Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lesgetbetter/
- Portfolio: http://andythornton.work/
- School of Sexuality Education Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/school_sexed/

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0:00.0	I read this amazing quote that was,
0:02.4	God makes trans people for the same reason they make.
0:05.8	Grapes are not wine and wheat and not bread
0:08.3	so that we can share in the joy and mystery of creation.
0:11.7	Oh, I love that.
0:16.7	Welcome to Doing It with me, Hannah Witten,
0:19.6	where we talk all things, sex, relationships, dating and our bodies.
0:28.5	Hello, welcome back to Doing It. This is the first episode of 2021, the first episode of season four, and I'm really excited to kick off this season.
0:38.8	Lots of great guests and themes around sex to discuss.
0:42.7	My wonderful guest in this first episode back is Andy Thornton.
0:46.8	Andy is a bi-gender illustrator and sex educator for the School of Sexuality Education,
0:52.9	and they are Stonewall's LGBTQ plus person of faith role model.
0:57.6	This episode is filled with so much goodness. We talk about all sorts. Andy talks about their
1:02.9	experience being queer and non-binary, what being by gender means to him and how all that
1:09.3	relates to being a Christian. Andy shares some queer stories that
1:13.0	feature in the Bible that you may not know about, and we chat about the difference between
1:18.2	a tolerating Christian community versus an affirming one when it comes to gender and sexuality.
1:24.5	We talk about the social constructs of gender and go on a big tangent about language
1:29.0	and sexual orientation. I love me a good tangent about language. And we also talk about autism
1:35.8	and vaginismus. I told you, we cover a lot of ground in this episode. Welcome back. I hope you
1:41.7	enjoy this episode and strap in for another season. As usual, you can find more information and links to everything we talked about in this episode in the show notes over at doing itpodcast.com. And please let us know what you think over on our Twitter or Instagram at Doing It Podcast. If you like this podcast, please give us a rating and review over
2:01.8	on iTunes. It's really appreciated. Here is the first episode of season four with Andy Thornton.
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