The Religious Right's New Target: Transgender People

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http://www.religiondispatches.org/dispatches/candacechellew-hodge/7258/the_religious_right_s_new_target__transgender_people/

August 20, 2013 7:00am

Post by CANDACE CHELLEW-HODGE

One of the most frustrating, and often infuriating things about religious conservatives is their stubborn penchant for dividing the world into either/or categories. People are either straight or gay, white or black, male or female, religious or atheist. And of course if you're on the right side of the dichotomy, you're on the right side of God. Anyone else is at best inferior and at worst, a sinner damned to hell.

We see this kind of thinking in a Washington Post On Faith post by Russell D. Moore, the president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. Moore tackles California's new law protecting the rights of transgender students, allowing them to freely use bathrooms or locker rooms they feel fits their gender identity.

Moore emphasizes that Jesus tells us we are born "male and female" and the existence of transgender people "who feel alienated from their identities as men or as women" is simply the result of the "fallen" nature of our world—since we, as humans, are alienated from God because of our sinfulness that we inherited from Adam.

Really, it's enough to make you scream. Instead of, oh, I don't know, turning to science to explain why one person's brain feels differently about gender than another person's brain, evangelical Christians keep referencing an unscientific book that knows absolutely nothing about gender variance and modern discoveries about biology and the brain.

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1. Inter-sex

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Too bad he also created people who intersex. Something that the right is completely oblivious too or as the author so eloquently said:

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2. fucking red necks always have to have some one to hate

other wise their lives are empty and meaningless to them.