Transgenderism - E11 - Narrative Theology

Enacting the Kingdom

And we're back! We continue our series on Narrative Theology, looking at transgenderism within the improvisation model of Christian ethics. There are again so many offers on the table, and many more nuanced ways of accepting and blocking these offers, but how do we move to over-accept, wrapping this story up within the greater story of God?

In both accepting and blocking, it is taken as a given that one's biological sex predetermines what our gender role will be, and that in order to take on different gender roles, along with the accompanying psycho-social-cultural expectations, norms and behaviours, one must fight against nature. It's time to question those givens!

In fact, what we call gender, the church calls us to transcend. As we hear from many of the Fathers, becoming properly human in the fullest sense means that we will no longer be male and female. The challenge lies on us - we must question the ways we have essentialized sex and gender and return to the story we should have been telling all along.

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