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Yesterday’s Supreme Court decision allowing the transgender military ban to go into effect is another reminder that the transgender community is under attack by the current administration. They are being painted as dangerous deviants whose very existence threatens our nation.
How can Christians who are rooted in a theology of love, acceptance and hospitality respond to what is happening? How do we live out our faith as allies for the trans community?
I will confess that I have struggled with this. Navigating what seems like a new world of non-binary identity and gender non-conformity is not easy for a cis-gendered, straight white girl.
So I reached out to my friends who are part of the trans community, many of whom are activists for that community and gleaned some of the things that we can do to advocate and be an ally for transgender people.
The Jesus we follow is the same Jesus who always reached out to those on the margins–the unclean, the untouchable and the unacceptable. We, in turn, are called to reach out to those people in our world–to bear witness that they are indeed clean and embraceable and very much welcome.
Rev. Anne Russ is an ordained pastor in the Presbyterian Church (USA).
Visit Rev. Anne Russ’ website here.
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