Transgender issues

• The 2010 Equality Act includes 'gender reassignment' as a 'protected characteristic'
• The Bible says nothin about changing gender, but the early Church strongly condemned those who underwent surgery to modify their sexual identity.
• Ordination to the priesthood was not permitted for eunuchs
• Fundamentalist Protestants believe that God alone decides gender. Since he doesn't make mistakes, any attempt to change it is an act of rebellion against God
• Liberal Protestants accept transgender people and transgender rights. Many denominations accept transgender people as ministers
• The Church of England takes the same approach as liberal Protestantism
• CofE: since 2000, transgender priests have continued their ministry and transgender men and women are accepted for ordination
• CofE: marriage is permitted where one member of the couple is transgender and special naming ceremonies are proposed for transgender members
• The Catholic Church rejects the idea of chan going gender
• Catholic Church: A report issued in 2000 said that surgery did not change the identity of the person
• Catholic Church: it might be permissible in extreme cases, but the marriage of transgender people could never be valid
• Eunuch= a castrated male