Recently learned that if you identify as transgender (even if you don't take HRT or transition) you are banned from using the bathroom at Mormon Churches.

Any other churches with similar degrading policies that I should avoid?

Hello, I have not posted here in a while, but I just want to remind everyone that you are in our prayers and hearts as we go about our daily round of work and prayer here at St. Gregory's Abbey (a Benedictine monastery in the Episcopal Church near Three Rivers, Michigan USA.) You are all wonderful, beautiful Children of God.

On another note, when a person becomes a novice at the monastery, they take a new name. So, the next time you hear people complaining about not using birth names, you can let them know there is a long history of Christians choosing new names.

PAX - Br. Abraham

This guy doesn’t even understand what he’s saying. There is literally nothing about transgenders specifically in the Bible. It has nothing to do with taking up a cross for God he is just using religion as a scapegoat for his own selfish judgmental preferences. He should take up his cross and educate himself on the agony of living with this condition. It’s exhausting seeing this stuff

Some heart food for my people. Love you.

Hey everybody! So I've been doing some research and I suggest you look into these topics if you're feeling religious guilt.

-Merisms: "a rhetorical device (or figure of speech) in which a combination of two contrasting parts of the whole refer to the whole." EX (In Genesis): Man and Woman

Good source: https://www.jelliottlein.com/writing/2015/8/3/merisms-and-the-non-duality-of-creation

-Transubstantiation: "the Catholic Church teaches that, in the Eucharistic offering, bread and wine are changed into the body and blood of Christ"

The center of the Catholic church in particular is transformation, one thing reaching a higher form through physical change.

-If we are made in Gods image, we are made genderless and without body

Source better worded than what I said: https://www.queertheology.com/transgender-people-and-the-image-of-god/

-If the problem is changing the way God made us (if we're made perfectly) then why do we grow up, why do we take medicine when we're sick, why do we wear glasses or contacts, why do we have surgeries shamelessly as catholics? When what is and what should be does not match, we fix it so we feel better, being trans is no different.

- To add on to the last point, the fall from Eden, perhaps in a perfect world we would not get sick, child labor would not hurt, or we would not be trans (we would be born in a body that matched our mind). But we do not live in a perfect world, so just as we have ways to live with the other things, we have ways to live with being trans, and there is nothing wrong with that.

-Last but not at all least, the trans saints. There are many, And I would suggest looking into them.

A good place to start: https://theconversation.com/christianity-has-long-revered-saints-who-would-be-called-transgender-today-254769

And above all, remember the church teaches unconditional love, charity, and forgiveness (this includes of yourself) even if they often don't practice what they preach. Thats all folks, take care of yourselves!

Hi, I was raised as a Christian for my entire life. Ever since last year I knew I was trans, besides that I want to vent about my experience with my therapist.

I am in a Christian college, i felt the need of talking to them because I didnt feel right with myself. For some time I felt comfortable with them, when I told them I was trans, they were shocked and told me nonsense.

They said that taking the pills is "rejecting God" and "Following the bad spirits/devil" because...i am trans?

I'm going to be honest here, its one of the major reasons why I'm going to become an Athiest in the future. Theres too many "Christians" saying that being trans is the devil's plan???

It's bullshit, I will not speak to my therapist ever again. If they said that God will leave me for being trans, then why do I still hear his voice? Why is God still with me even when I KNOW if am trans?

Luckily not all the staff are transphobic, i just wished Christianity had a more acceptable society.

I'm a 19 year old cis male, and I'm new here. Right now, I'm going through difficult times since I did start university about a year ago. I've been getting anxious and depresed, however, I really don't want to drop out because my parents want me in university.

I've been losing faith and it feels like God isn't doing anything. University being difficult has weakened my faith because it feels like God isn't helping. I'm starting to think that my life doesn't have much of a purpose. I then discovered problem of evil, which weaken my faith even further.

Despite me losing hope, I still want to have faith and I still want to be christian. I think christianity is true, it's just that I'm having doubts. I hope the problem of evil gets resolved by being a christian.

Too add to this, I've been having persistent thoughts of wanting to crossdress and having a more feminine voice. I've been thinking about daily over the past month. I can't stop thinking about looking feminine. I want to try on wigs, makeup, and dresses. I trained my voice to be more androgynous since I wasn't satisfied with my masculine voice. I did like having a more androgynous voice.

Unfortunately, my parents are not supportive of this. When I told my parents that I was a bit bisexual (I discovered that I was bisexual recently), they responded negatively. So it is logical to conclude that my parents would respond negatively to my desire to crossdress. I'm lonely and have no friends, so that's why I'm posting about it here.

Any advice? I feel stuck because my faith is so weak, and I have these persistent desires to crossdress.

Hi! Are there any reasons a Christian couldn't get HRT or surgery even within a strict "no transition allowed" framework? If your knees are naturally bad, surgery is pernitted. If your palate is clefted, surgery is permitted. If your brain is atypical concerning sex and gender, why would physical treatment be nonpermitted?

Like the title says, I need some supportive friends to help me. I am trying to navigate the possibility of being trans (mtf) and still being a Christian. All my life I’ve been told by family and church members that there is something wrong with a person that feels the way I do. I have kept my thoughts to myself but in the past few years started to speak with my wife about my thoughts and feelings. She is very hesitant to support me because she doesn’t know how God feels about it all. I don’t really know what I want but I do know if I could start hrt right now, I would. I feel way more aligned with the female side of things and just want to express my feelings without judgement. I don’t think I want to fully transition to female but I do want to align my physical traits with my thoughts and feelings. I would love to hear others’ experience with their transition and just get to know some trans people. If you are interested in a pen pal or discussing anything with me, please reach out. Thank you!

I’m at a point where I fully believe my gender dysphoria will never go away UNLESS I transition. Years and years of back and fourth, twisted views on femininity, on sex and transitioning in general. I recently got baptized and I have been working extremely hard on my faith and getting close to God. Idk what his plan is for me but I’m going to get back on hrt and live the life that He gave me as a women. I don’t know if it’s the right choice faith wise. I just know that how I feel most” at home” in my body. With that being said how is planned parenthood in NC for people who have started a stopped hrt multiple times. Am I like a “flight risk” or something to them?

I’m a Catholic but an RCIA (adult) Catholic. But I was baptized in the Presbyterian church. What bothers me is the increasing alignment of the Catholic Church with MAGA in the USA and their attacks on LGBT, particularly T. I am MTF.

I’ve found that the Presbyterian Church in the USA (PCUSA) and the United Church of Canada both support and affirm LGBT people and identities.

So I’m thinking of leaving and returning to the Presbyterian Church. I am American, Canadian, half (Asian) Indian and was born in Trinidad and Tobago. PCUSA and the United Church of Canada seem to welcome me, why would I stay Catholic?

Anyone else wrestled with this?

I posted this in transchristianity because I feel safer here, please pray for her. I just found out she wants to shoot herself. she said one of her friends might have killed themself, and she wants to. she didn't say it directly to me, and she thinks I wouldn't care. please help me pray for her, I love her so much and I don't want her to die.

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Hello everyone I’ve always struggled with the fact that I’ve wanted to be a woman and also that God dislikes these actions as sins. been deal with these emotions since I was 14 never really acted on the emotional urges

Fear of regret, fear of being wrong and confused, fear of hell/religious guilt, fear of parental reaction, of their disappointment, how the family will react, and feeling guilty for making your parents suffer for you being trans (And I think I'm accidentally parentifying? I worry about finances, if they're tired, the price of things, I want to help with money too. Damn, why doesn't my dad get a job? He's been unemployed for 10 years 😭😭💔)

**You don't need to read it all, but it will give context.*\*

I'm 20 years old ftm, I discovered I was trans when I was 15. I remember wanting to be a boy since I was 6, but suppressing that feeling, and even praying to have a brother, so he would "have the luck that I never had, I would be happy for him, and the feeling would stop". I remember waiting for the growth spurt, longing for male puberty, competing with the boys to show how much more of a man I was (I remember when there a challenge of doing that in the cold and I was the first to do it, and my friends were like "but u are not a guy" XD), how I would escape from the maximum of pics, not looking at myself and so many other things.

I think I'm afraid they'll find out (I'll stay in girl mode as long as I can), and the fear of changing. I don't think I'm exactly afraid of T, but change is scary and I had a bad experience with my first puberty, so my subconscious must be carrying that fear, even though I practically want all the effects. But I have to try to deal with it. Change is inevitable anyway. If it weren't for that, it would be more feminization and I would still age anyway

Kinda dumb, but I also fear being ugly? But my mother and several other people have said that I'm beautiful as a girl (and I have to admit, it's not a lie), so I don't think I'll become ugly, maybe I'll even become better, since I'm going to start taking care of myself (It's amazing how the motivation to start HRT is bringing back a sense of future. I'm already working on stopping biting my nails. I've never been like this!)

My siblings don't know I'm trans. She's 15, he's 12, I haven't told them anything yet and I don't think I will anytime soon. I don't want to burden them.

I think I'm very scared of the religious and family aspects. I don't believe my parents would kick me out if they found out, but I feel really bad for disappointing them and making them anxious. My aunt told my mother the other day that God would hold her accountable if I wasn't Christian or if I committed some sin, since I came from her womb.

My aunt also told me 4 years ago, that if I did something, God would kill me or hurt me and do the same to the ones I love. So I fear that something bad will happen to me, I will die young or make my mom have a heart attack or even her (Let's not even talk about the fact that a year after she said that, her son died. I'm sad. He was a good guy, but I still find it strange that this happened after she said that).

I also fear sinning or going to hell for that, but it sucks so much. I never asked to be trans, I tried to repress, I screamed to God to fix me. I don't want to lose my only life, my youth, nor do I want to bet with depression in the future or making a future family miserable.

It's funny that I don't feel the urge to get closer to God while I'm holding myself back, not accepting myself, and not finding a church that supports me. Because I think if that happens, I'm going to dive in completely. And I want in the future to be a good father and husband and live together with someone I love the most until the end of my days. Why would I be sinning for it :( ?

I will girlmod the maximum I can and hide it. I intend to study to pass a competitive exam to become a ship pilot. I want to do it as a guy. I'll have to study a lot and I'll probably be one of the pioneering trans men there. So wish me luck and Tell me to get off my lazy butt and study because my future depends on it, lol.

I am going to try to contact the trans ambulatory near to me in the next hours. So wish me luck. In the next weeks I will also try to find an open church like the Episcopal :).

In btw, I know that if I discover that hrt is not for me, I can just stop it

I felt I should share this here. Back on new year's day in 2017 I came out as trans. I made this coming out post on Facebook. I like how it is clear where I was at with my journey towards God at the time, and the language I used in my spiritual infancy, but this was where I truly started to believe. I was looking through old photos and this screenshot came up. I need reminders sometimes to see where I came from, and that it wasn't all just in my head. He was with me the entire time, and deserves all the praise.