Reply To: Transgender People of Faith
AnonymousHi, I’m new here and this is my first post. I hope my presence is not offensive because I am just a straight male trying to learn and better understand trans related concepts.
For one thing I wanted to say that I am genuinely surprised (not in a bad way) to read about the amount of positive support some trans people have gotten from religious groups. I believe in God myself, but I haven’t been affiliated with a particular religious group for many, many years. I was raised Catholic, but I’ve developed my own ideas as I’ve grown.
Based on my understanding of Christianity (well, more specifically Catholicism and Catholic people), I’ve always been under the impression that Catholics in general don’t approve of anything outside the traditional “heterosexual man/woman” Dichotomy. To be fair, I have heard about -some- degree growing acceptance towards homosexuality and lesbianism, but not necessarily outright approval from priests and other religious leaders.
This might be a bit off topic, but I was thinking recently that it might be really helpful if they taught about homosexuality and transsexuality to kids in high school, but that this would never happen because all the religious people would never allow it. Maybe I’m wrong, though?
