How have you navigated being Trans and Christian? How has your faith been strengthened so that when you go out there in the world, you feel more confident in who you are? I don’t have many friends who are queer and believe so most of my life has been incredibly lonely with it just being me who felt this way.
Ah! Hi there! It’s been a… interesting journey. Throughout my faith journey iv been to 4 churches including the one I’m at currently. 3 Presbyterian and one American Baptist (which I’m currently at) this is because my family worked in said churches… yada yada cut to the chase my current church is very much Queer accepting, so much so that we fired our last pastor because he wasn’t queer accepting (along a billion other reasons) so my current church I’m more out than at home so that’s super nice! the youth pastor's kiddo is a trans guy and the whole Youth Group is gay as shit! this has massively helped and built my faith and restored my hope that religious groups can help and support our fellow queer folks.
Unfortunately, my home has not been as fun haha. Mom and I have argued a few times but the arguments aren’t what are important, it’s what we talked about after. One of these is the idea we are spiritual beings on a physical world. When I say this was an awesome way to make sense of things I mean it. it helped me explain some of my feelings and my motivations to do things like go by my pronouns and dress how I wish. I said something along the lines of “I’m trying to get my spiritual person to match my physical body” I find this a really interesting way to look at sexuality because it does make sense in some way. it’s almost universally shared that trans people agree they were put in the wrong body. so then she asks “Well if that is true then did god make a mistake” Honestly no I don’t think so what happened I don't know and I don't know if anyone ever will but I do think there is a reason I think and that is to still spread the acceptance and love I was given.
Look if I'm honest this is a really long and kinda a mess of a post so if ANYONE has questions feel free to ask I’d be more than happy to answer.
Love yourself and others
~Orie <3
