A Tool for Countering Arguments?

[Confused1]

I am Christian and transgender.  I am going to put a link below to a video below about Intersex.  I hope this is helpful to some of you for family and friends. I know many of us compartmentalize and hide who we are because of what the world might think and the repercussions we could suffer. Christians and much of the cis world only want to see gender as what is assigned at birth. This video can be effective for Christians as well as non Christians if you can get them to watch it.

I know transgender and Intersex are not all in the same group, but I believe there is a larger overlap than most realize. Intersex is about more than just what is used to assign you at birth. It occurs in ways most people don’t even think about. And the percentage of the population may be more than you think.  Just making people aware of Intersex can help them realize the world is not as black and white as they think it is. With a little discussion, I have found this video helpful to open doors for me as a transgender.

Here is the link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJQGFQYxh5E

 

[VickySGV]

A good presentation.  This gave good information although it was highly clinical in tone.

 

I have learned over the years to simply NOT try to counter people who bring up religious, scriptural or other arguments against Trans or IS being real and them being "abominations" which itself is badly misunderstood from the original scriptures as the result of evolving language. It is a bit like "do not feed the monkeys" at a zoo. I am a member of a Christian denomination, and am fully welcomed and included by our canon law in ALL parts of our church.  I have found that those who do not open their minds up to Trans / IS also have closed minds even to the people whom they "convert" and although believing the way these people teach are still "less than" because they are late to the party.

[Astrid]

Yes...I've used this same approach as a way to introduce the idea that one's sex isn't always binary. It's still an uphill battle with evangelical Christians, but some do have their minds opened a bit wider...IF they don't reject reasoned logic as "intellectualism".

 

Good luck and best wishes, 

 

Astrid 

[Confused1]

I will agree that many don't want to hear anything other than what they already believe, but I have reached some I thought were unreachable. I attend a pretty conservative church in the bible belt and spent some time in several conversations with my preacher and his preaching has changed substantially. He even helped me reach one I thought was impossible.

 

I know perfectly well that it is dangerous to approach some of them, but we are the best equipped to do it. Not every interaction I have had has turned out good. I have studied the bible for over 40 years and know what it says. It helps to be able to turn around what they think if you know scripture better than they do.

 

Take for instance a scripture almost every one of them quote: Leviticus 22:5. I just ask them to read a little further to 22:11. It wakes up a few, because everyone of them is guilty of that one.

 

Hugs,

Mike