Washington Post: “Where In The Bible Does It Say You Can’t Be Transgender? Nowhere”
An article that was published by the Washington Post on Friday entitled ‘Where in the Bibel does it say you can’t be transgender? Nowhere’, is predicated on an assumption that nowhere in the Bible does it say an individual can not be transgender, according to Eliel Curz, a journalist, and apparent amateur Biblical scholar.
Cruz writes, “What’s behind this animus toward transgender people in the Christian community? As I see it, it’s not the Bible.”
“There is not a single verse in scripture that discusses transgender identities. Yet these Christians have decided that trans identities are sinful, mostly through their lack of understanding of what being trans means,” writes Cruz.
Cruz then cites as an example a recent funeral director in Michigan who recently won a court case by suggesting his Christian religious faith would not allow him to employ a transgender person.
The article quoted the funeral director as saying, “the Bible teaches that it is wrong for a biological male to deny his sex by dressing as a woman.”
Cruz Then refers to Deuteronomy 22:5 writing: “When the funeral director says his beliefs come from the Bible, he seems to be referring to Deuteronomy 22:5, which says, “A woman must not wear men’s clothing, nor a man wear women’s clothing, for the Lord your God detests anyone who does this.”
Cruz adds: “That verse talks about cross-dressing. It is clear that the funeral director does not understand what it is to be transgender.” Cruz adds: “Being trans is not cross-dressing. It is embodying a gender that does not align with the one that was given at birth.”
Cruz suggests that to use Deuteronomy 22:5 as a means to condemn transgender gender identity would require a certain amount of ignorance of what all entails the overall broader concept of transgender identities, as well as an amount of laziness associated with the readers interpretation of the verse and context of the particular chapter the verse is found within.
The author then goes through a series of verses in the Book of Genesis, attempting to give alternative theories regarding the contextual content of the verse itself, and questions the overall effort the reader is giving to fully comprehending the particular verses cited.
Cruz concludes on the theory that, “The biological and psychological reality of transgender and intersex individuals needs to be the context in which Christians read scripture.”
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