A Christian, true trans woman’s perspective on the reason God made us this way.
Do you have a minute to talk about our Lord, our Savior—Jesus Christ?
That’s not a joke. If you’re reading this and you’re a Christian, I wrote this for you. I am a Christian, too. If you’re not a Christian, don’t worry about this. But, this is important. And, if you’re not, you can’t ignore the faith in people’s lives. It may not be real to you, but just like gender, it is real.
I love our Lord and have since I was little in the Sunday School classes my momma taught at the Methodist church in town.
We always joked that the Baptists deliberatly timed their services to beat us to IHOP. We never went because we didn’t have the money to do that every Sunday. I don’t think the Baptists really did that. But, the point is, I still believe it just because its how I was raised. One thing that’s stood up, against immense pressure from every side: my faith in God.
People have tried to gaslight me into the far left, saying, “those people want you dead!” Or, “how can you call yourself Christian if all the other Chrstians hate you?!”
No doubt, it has tested me. As I’ve gotten older and met more and more folk who are Christian and expressing hatred towards people like me, I realized something—they were afraid. Though this hasn’t happened in since I first showed up one day at work as the opposite gender and people
They’d never met a normal trans person.
They’d never met any trans person.
The only kind of trans person they saw was some lunatic on the TV and acting nothing like a person you’d want to have in your house. God asks us to be patient. I have faith that those who meet me might not want to become my best friend, but that doesn’t mean we can be good neighbors.
Unfortunately, a large majority of American evangelical Christians hate, vilify, and attack not only trans, but lesbian, gay and bisexual folk too. But,
I’m not interested in getting those kind of people on my side, period. Why? They’re not Christian! They’re fascists pretending to love Christ when what they love is the crypto-fascist, pan-German, Nazi ideology mixed with the disaffected Anglo-Saxon/Scots Irish who thinks might makes right and it is their dominion over mankind to rule.
Jesus protested economic inequality, injustice, the mistreatment of the sick and disabled, and more. Oh, and the word that the far right claims that Jesus uses to condemn homosexuality doesn’t mean that.
The word for gay comes up all the time in contemporary writing, and that one isn’t it. But, that’s beside the point to them because it was and is never about being a good Christian. No, they use it to try to get away with being truly evil. For there is one sin that Jesus said, above all, was anathema—to hate.
So, for my fellow Christians who don’t make hate a part-time job, see if we can agree:
- I believe in individual liberty
- I believe in the republic and our similar, shared heritages
- I believe in being straight-forward and not beating around the bush
- I believe in plain dealing, that is, what you see is what you get
- I believe in being honest, fair, and truthful
- I believe in our republic.
- I believe in God
- I believe in other people’s right not to believe in God
- I believe in Jesus’ teachings of kindness, helping others, defending the defenseless
- I believe in intellectual curiosity and that God gave us all this to study.
No, God didn’t make a mistake. He made us the way were supposed to be. Yes, he made us have hormones that were off and a whole host of problems that come with it.
I don’t think He made a mistake whenever a child is born without the use of a limb, for example, however tempting that may be. There is a plan which we are too small to see, and too small to judge.
If it was God’s will that I be born male yet grow up with disregulated hormones and the estrogen profile of a perimenopausal woman, so be it.
It put me through the mud, that’s for sure, but I am a happy, decently educated professional who lives a normal happy life.
I certainly don’t have an answer, because I am not Him. But, I know this is His way of tell me something. Of maybe telling other people something. I might not even be put on this Earth for me—it could be for someone more imporatnt!
That’s the point. God did it and we don’t know why so we need to just accept it, grow, and move on with our lives. That’s what my preacher always told us. How about yours?
Coming soon…. how you can be a Christian ally of true trans women.