Transgender Pacifism
http://austinsthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/10/13/transgender-pacifism/10/13/2008
A group of us were in downtown Portland, working with Bridgetown Ministries, and on our first day, we had to live homeless. It was a bit of a silly exercise, as we were returning to the home church that evening for dinner and a place to sleep. During the day, however, we had to get lunch at one of the many food shelters/soup kitchens in the city.
As I was standing in line at a neat little restaurant that served and waited on its (mostly) homeless patrons, I began chatting with the person behind me. With short cropped hair and denim attire, the middle-aged person identified himself as Lee, formerly Lisa, and was in fact a transgender person. Born as a woman named Lisa, Lee felt that he identified more as a male.
