Male, Female, Transgender, And The Story Of Creation

I hear the creation story in Genesis used a lot by Christians and churches who are against transgender people.

The argument typically goes something like this …

“God created male and female. He didn’t create transgender. He created 2 genders and nothing in between. You’re either male or you’re female and your genitals tell you which one you are.”

But.

Have you ever read the rest of the creation story? Because when we do we see that God not only created male and female, but …

Light and dark.

Land and water.

Day and night.

This is important, right? Because although there is light and dark no one would be crazy enough to say there is only light and dark or day and night.

I mean …

What about dusk?

What about that moment just before the sun comes up?

What about that moment just before the sun goes down?

Every day we come across day and night and light and dark, but we also come across dusk and those moments in that day that aren’t quite light or dark.

And although there is land and water it’s obvious that there are places that are land and water sort of mixed together, right?

Like marshes.

Like reefs.

Like quick sand.

Yes, there is hard land and wet sea, but there are also places scattered across the earth that are mixes of both of these things.

And they’re all beautiful and wonderful and intriguing in their own way.

And so I guess the question is if Genesis talks about light and dark and land and sea and we can observe around us that these aren’t hard and fast dichotomies, but ends of a spectrum that allow for many other various aspects of creation to fall within the middle.

Well.

Why can’t male and female be the same?

Yes, there are males and there are females, but there are also transgender people who identify in a variety of different ways.

There is transgender.

There is nonbinary.

There is genderfluid.

There is agender.

Etc.

… That fall upon the Biblical spectrum of male and female just as dusk, marshes, and reefs fall upon the Biblical spectrums of light and dark and land and sea.

All of them are beautiful.

All of them are wonderful.

All of them contain a gift to be given to the world.

Much love to my LGBTQ friends. You are not an accident, you are wonderfully and beautifully made.

Peace to you.

(PS - I found “Transforming” by Austen Hartke to be incredibly helpful in expanding my imagination and thoughts around this topic)