Today I talked with my mom about being transgender. Or rather she talked to me. I couldn’t really say much at the time. I think I mainly like to take what she says and mull over it for a while and see how I feel later.
The classic objection to transgender people, or she had a few main points:
- So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them. (Gen 1:27)- Her interpretation means that I was created the way I was meant to be. I was born a male and that was God’s will for me.
- She believes that I’m being deceived into thinking that I’m transgender and that this is the devil’s temptations.
- I believe God created my soul and this is not necessarily based on feelings but who I am at my core. I don’t know how to describe it without feelings being the interface or without it becoming some weird mental health issue instead of a spiritual experience.
- My being transgender is based on feelings and not facts.
- If we all acted based on our feelings we’d be in a bad spot.
- Again demons can influence how we feel about things. My arrival to thinking that I’m transgender is based on feelings.
- I believe that it is bad to be a man.
- I told her that I don’t believe that it is bad to be a man. But I plan on evaluating if that is true. I know for a while I held this belief and this was after accepting being transgender and for a few months. Then I realized I was holding onto this belief and it wasn’t accurate.
- Overall I don’t believe this contributes to how I feel about being born a man–I believe it is good to be a man when you feel like a man.
- Her failure to provide a positive male figure caused this.
- She believes if I had an older brother I wouldn’t feel this way.
- Our children don’t need two women.
- It hurts to get a gender change.
- It’s not “just you”
I guess I need to explore these further just to make sure there isn’t anything of substance (where appropriate). Ultimately I think she doesn’t believe transgender people exist to begin with.