The First Openly Transgendered Minister
Posted on December 4, 2011
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Is there anything left that the Episcopalians have not been 'first' in? Meet the minister who was a she. She is now a he!
Pondering a gender change began with his doctoral studies at Harvard Divinity School in the '90s. "I was out as gay at that point," he recalls. The run-up to his change was not the turmoil-filled time you might expect. "I'm not a huge fan of the trapped-in-the-wrong-body narrative" of some other transgendered people, Partridge says. "I know it's true and real for some folks, but I never felt like God made a mistake. I've not had a problem with God about this, I really haven't. I just had a sense of this growing—discomfort, disjunction." With the change, "I felt like I was able to kind of reclaim the body that God had given me."