Welcome to our new section on Transgender issues.
Here you will find some basic information and an encouragement to consider Trans issues with a view to making transgender people feel welcome and valued in our churches and fellowships.
Please follow the links below.
“Faith, Gender and Me” by Elaine Sommers tackles some of the basic questions about Transgender and dispels some of the misunderstandings.
- Part 1 – Interview with Elaine and glossary of terms
- Part 2 – Biblical Perspectives and Transgender
- Part 3 – The Road to Acceptance
A Chosen Lifestyle? – looks at whether being Trans is a choice
Towards Transgender Wholeness – explores some of the ways to self-understanding and acceptance which many Trans people experience
I Have a Dream… – inspiration towards a better future
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I am a post operative transwoman from an Afro Caribbean background. I have been attending church from a young age and also from a young age I felt that there was something different about me. I would pray at nights asking God to change me into a girl while I slept but it never happened of course! Growing up I would also pray asking God to leadme to a scripture saying that what I was feeling was wrong. I never found the scripture. Now that I have had the surgery I do like my body more but feel that because I went through with surgey I am constently living in a sinful nature. I would love to worship open with those that accept me and with other Christians who are transgender. Most of all I would like to know that God accepts me in my redefined body!