Can God Make People Who Don't Fit Into Our Boxes? The Transgender Question
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Author: Morgan Guyton Source: Huffington Post

Now, for those [. . .] who are skeptical about the diagnoses of modern psychology, let's take a look at what the Bible itself says. [. . .] When we look at the underlying logic in Paul's pastoral discernment regarding sexual issues, it doesn't have anything to do with the gender complementarity that has become the reactionary conservative fetish to the liberal fetish of gender and sexual exoticism in our era. The underlying question for Paul in considering human sexuality is to minimize distraction.

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If, for whatever mysterious biological reason, a kid is spending her whole mental life scandalized by the male body that she's been born into, then doesn't that likewise constitute an obstacle to "good order and unhindered devotion to the Lord" that it's reasonable to try to overcome? [. . .] Nothing is a greater abuse of the Christian doctrine of humanity's "fallen nature" than to use it as a means of dismissing other peoples' created uniqueness as a mistake. The fact of the matter is that the Bible says nothing prescriptively about what people should do when the gender that they were assigned at birth is not the gender with which they identify, or about how to distinguish the people who are "really" that way from the libertines who are "faking it."

An interesting article. What's happened is that what Paul said has been monopolized and made a hard and fast rule that in order to be happy you have to be married. When I hear someone say that being wired differently is a mistake, I cringe. There are folks walking around damaged and wounded because others cannot accept their difference.