Exploring Gender Identity in Religion

God is non-binary.

God is non-binary, but I'm going to go further than that,

and I'm going to say

God is actually also trans.

And now let's get on the same page here.

When we trans people are born,

folks assign us a gender based on what they see.

Then when we're old enough, we realize that

that wasn't right,

and we're not, in our deepest selves, the gender that everybody thought we were,

right?

Reasonable working definition of a trans person, yeah?

Okay, good.

All right, here's why God is trans.

When God, who as we have established, is non-binary,

was born in human form

as our Lord Jesus Christ, Mary said, "Oh, look, a

baby boy."

God isn't a boy.

We have established this.

God is beyond boy and girl. God was assigned a gender at birth, and

later on it became clear that that gender wasn't quite right.

So if you're gonna deny God is trans, I think you're gonna be denying the

divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I have some notes about that.

When I say that later on it became clear gender

wasn't quite right, I mean it. We already know Jesus didn't

live life exactly the way your average first century Judean

man did, right? To the best of our knowledge,

he didn't get married.

We don't know for sure. Um, he chose to teach and to engage with

women in ways that were very unusual, that were not the

traditionally masculine way that people might be behaving with each

other.

And then Jesus died,

and Jesus was resurrected.

And when Jesus was resurrected,

Jesus

was different.

Jesus

didn't look like himself.

There was something different about Jesus.

And now, I will admit the Bible does not tell us

what that is.

So if anybody says they do know what that is,

they are also not telling the truth,

and I have some notes for them.

The Bible doesn't tell us why it is that Jesus' best friends, his disciples,

the

people who had walked with him to the end of his life, the people who

buried him in the tomb when it was

politically difficult,

who were committed to him, still didn't recognize Jesus for a good

long

time.

Now, I don't know for sure.

I wasn't there.

But based on everything else I know about God,

I have an idea. I think Jesus was resurrected

as Jesus' true self, which is beyond male or

female. I think Jesus was not only transfigured,

I think Jesus transitioned.