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Within Christianity, there are a variety of views on the issues of gender identity and transgender people. Christian denominations vary in their official position: some explicitly support gender transition, some oppose it, and others are divided or have not taken an official stance. Within any given denomination, individual members may or may ...
The ordination of lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgender (LGBT) clergy who are open about their sexuality or gender identity; are sexually active if lesbian, gay, or bisexual; or are in committed same-sex relationships is a debated practice within some contemporary Christian denominations.
Rejecting gender identity categories (cis, trans, non-binary, etc.) as identity markers. [ 78 ] Accommodating labels like ex-gay [ 79 ] [ 80 ] or former transgender [ 81 ] to describe someone's involvement in LGBT sexuality, identity, or activism prior to one's conversion to Christianity .
The issue arose when the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission redefined workplace protections based on “sex” to instead mean “gender identity.” The Christian Employers Alliance ...
The history of Christianity and homosexuality has been much debated. [3] The Hebrew Bible and its traditional interpretations in Judaism and Christianity have historically affirmed and endorsed a patriarchal and heteronormative approach towards human sexuality, [4] [5] favouring exclusively penetrative vaginal intercourse between men and women within the boundaries of marriage over all other ...
In "Male and female he created them: toward a path of dialogue on the question of gender identity in education", the Congregation for Catholic Education states that sex and gender can be seen as distinct concepts, but should not be considered independent of one another, [79] and that the church does not approve of the concept of gender identity ...
The issue of homosexuality and Christianity is a subject of ongoing theological debate within and between Christian denominations and this list seeks to summarize the various official positions. Within denominations, many members may hold somewhat differing views on and even differing definitions of homosexuality .
Gender identity: Gender identity refers to an individual's sense of self as a woman, man, both, neither, somewhere in between, or whatever one's truth is. Gender identity (despite what the gender ...