Tagged: Transgender Welcome

Traces of reflection

Compassion is not enough, with transgender people it serves inclusion

Text by Gene Robinson*, episcopal bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire (United States), taken from "Transgender Welcome: to Bishop Makes the case for Affirmation", published by the Center for American Progress, January 2016, freely translated by the volunteers of the Gionata project Many people of faith are ready to show compassion towards transgender people. They say: “I don't want to judge, I just want to be ...

Biblical meditations

Inclusion in biblical history

Text by Gene Robinson*, episcopal bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire (United States), taken from "Transgender Welcome: to Bishop Makes the case for Affirmation", published by the Center for American Progress, January 2016, freely translated by the volunteers of the Gionata project In the Jewish and Christian tradition there is a very clear trend: the history of faith is a story of growing inclusion. In...

Traces of reflection

Did the concept of gender in the Bible existed?

Text by Gene Robinson*, episcopal bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire (United States), taken from "Transgender Welcome: to Bishop Makes the case for Affirmation", published by the Center for American Progress, January 2016, freely translated by the volunteers of the Gionata project There are several ways to approach the sacred texts of the Jewish and Christian tradition. The approach I will adopt here is not a literaryist, ...

Traces of reflection

From the invisibility of bisexual people to the visibility of transgender people

Text by Gene Robinson*, episcopal bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire (United States), taken from "Transgender Welcome: to Bishop Makes the case for Affirmation", published by the Center for American Progress, January 2016, freely translated by the volunteers of the Gionata project Bisexual people are often neglected because, if they have a relationship with an opposite sex person, they seem heterosexual, while if ...