The Bible has endless rules and commentary about sex. Jesus needed to be a product of a no-sex pregnancy. Everyday for decades one can find a preacher or priest carrying on about sexual sins.
Tonight marks and anniversary (can't remember the year exactly) of Pope Benedict referring to the evils of homosexuality in a Pope's most important message of the year, the Christmas Eve message. Probably if Pope Benedict were giving the Christmas Eve message tonight he would be railing against transgendered people.
For whatever reason, people who change the gender they present to others sets off anger in parts of Christianity. It's hard to understand. Just as it's hard to understand why these Christians care that some same sex weddings take place when it affects them not at all, why would they care that some people change their gender? If you don't like it, don't do it. Leave it at that.
Perhaps Christians understand the truth. The truth is humans, since the beginning of humans apparently, find gender nonconformity fascinating. The men in drag who read to children at local public libraries are very popular.
One famous show business celebrity, Liberace, was quite sexually ambiguous but was among to highest paid entertainers of his time. He grew up a poor kid in Milwaukee but made it big performing as sexually nonconforming.
This link is about an entertainer in Puerto Rico who performed, like Liberace, in robes, capes and hints he might be either. His performances mixed astrology with religion, himself being a central figure in what we might call "prophesy." He was a huge star in Spanish language countries in the 1980's and died in 2019. Now there is a documentary about him that is very popular. According to the link, he mixed astrology. religion and sexuality in a way that enamored audiences.
From what I gather, teenagers today are far more tolerant of sexual ambiguity than their parents. There is even a news item that President Trump's youngest son, Barron, uses the term "they" and "them" when referring to an individual so as no to offend by assigning a gender to that person.
Let's hope 2021 is another year of progress in acceptance of people who chose to go their own way when presenting their gender. Let's hope they can do this regardless of hysterical criticism by some religious folks.
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