Saturday, November 1, 2014

God, Science, and Trans* Acceptance

For Christian folks having difficulty with transgender acceptance, this Women's Daily magazine article about a Christian mother and her transgender son might provide a helpful perspective.
Excerpt:  
"Instead of asking God to change your child, the author suggested, why don't you ask Him to change your heart?" she said. "It was a revelation: I had never even considered that idea. 
"I put the book down and sat there until the bathwater had cooled. I contemplated what it would mean to change my thoughts and feelings. Could I even do that? I said to God, "If this is the way You have made my child, and this is the way You want me to love her, I pray that You give me peace in my heart.
"The next morning, I woke up with an amazing sense of peace. It was the only time in my life I felt a strong, quick answer to prayer. I knew then that God was with my family."

I wish more religious folks thought about it this way. Many religious folks also accept science, and if science shows that transexualism is an "honest-to-God" brain condition, can more religious folks accept that God made us this way?

Here are some articles supporting that view...



Wikipedia echos what Sapolsky says, if you read down a bit to the brain and phantom limb sections.