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What Every Christian Should Know About Trans People

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What Every Christian Should Know About Trans People

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/catholicauthenticity/2015/07/what-every-christian-should-know-about-trans-people/

Patheos/July 28, 2015 by Melinda Selmys

"To a lot of Christians, the trans community just seems like a natural extension of LGB politics – trans is kind of like gay, but worse. Trans people are habitually sexualized (sometimes even more than gay people) and trans identities are described as "demonic" or "Satanic" with unfortunate regularity.

This is a serious problem. It represents a failure on the part of our Christian imagination. Specifically, a failure to imagine the trans person as really a person at all. Trans people are imagined as mutilated bodies, demonic icons, lurking rapists in women's bathrooms, a threat to marriage and society, and worse. They're not imagined as our brothers and sisters in Christ."
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