Recently I was working with a group of LGBTI people where the majority of the group were trans or intersex. I had been asked to lead the Bible study. We looked at the text where Jesus of Nazareth is twelve years old and is among religious leaders. He is astounding them with his insight. But they do not know how to believe that the truth can exist in this kind of human package. We, LGBTI people at a Bible study, asked a question: 'What truths have we known about ourselves since we were young?' People knew what it was to know themselves. They also knew what it was like for their insight to be denied. For decades. The Bible study lasted for hours. People spoke about the indigenous understanding they'd had about themselves since they could think. 'I didn't know the Bible could help us read our own lives,' someone said.”― Pádraig Ó Tuama, The Book of Queer Prophets: 21 Writers on Sexuality and Religion

Life

Greg Wallace

Intersex is the natural phenomenon known to the medical profession for centuries but necessarily obscure to everyone else. It is the fact that a small percentile of human beings are born either with ambiguous genitalia or turn out to have other biological attributes (for instance an unusually large clitoris, or an unusually small penis) which suggest that they may lie somewhere between the sexes.”― Douglas Murray, The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity

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All of this is dehumanizing. We can’t just care about “intersex” when it comes up in an argument. Intersex people are people—image bearers of the divine and gifts to the church.”― Preston M. Sprinkle, Embodied: Transgender Identities, the Church, and What the Bible Has to Say

There’s no one right way to live as a trans person—or cis, or nonbinary, or intersex person, etc.—because there is no ‘right way’ to be human.”― Marina J. Lostetter, Noumenon Infinity

The system didn’t want to say that I’m intersex. That I’m not female or male. The doctors wanted to choose a gender for me and then make my body agree with their ideas about who I should be.”― Pidgeon Pagonis, Nobody Needs to Know: A Memoir