Transgender issues

• If all people are created by God, what could be argued?

  That God, who doesnt make mistakes, gave transgender people their body, so they should be content with the gender god gave them
• What was the early church strongly opposed to?

  Surgery which tampered with sex identity
• for example…?

  eunuchs (men who had been castrated) were not permitted to be ordained as priests
• those who believe it is wrong to change gender also argue that..?

  all the passages which relate to homosexuality also apply yo those who change their gender
• a surgical gender transition cannot change the sexual nature that a person is born with so…?

  a transgender female with a man is still considered to be homosexual - condemned
• what does genesis teach?

  ‘male and female he created them’
• what does the book of Jeremiah teach?

  ‘before i formed you in the womb i knew you’ - meaning that god has designed each human being to be a certain way, they’re made imago dei
• what does the catholic church teach?

  that any sex-change intervention, as a rule, ‘risks threatening the unique dignity the person has received from the moment of conception’
• what did the evangelical alliance state in 2000?

  that we ‘affirm God’s love ad concern for all humanity, but believe that God creates human beings as either male or female’
• what does st paul write?

  ‘there is neither male nor female for you are all one in Christ jesus’
• what does Paul seem to be saying here?

  gender is not significant in achieving salvation, and living as a Christian
• what does the Church of England guidance state?

  that it ‘rejoices in diversity’
• what does situation ethics emphasise?

  that ‘loves decisions are made situationally‘ - therefore love should be the predominant Christian impulse, treatment of trans people should always be guided by agape and a focus on love