Scripture & Transgenderism
No Scriptures directly speak to the phenomenon of gender dysphoria/transgenderism but here are some Biblical principles and Biblical examples that teach applicable messages:
Birth defects are not signs of sin, but circumstances God allows that God might work unique miracles in our lives.
John 9:1-3 (NIV)
1As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"
3"Neither this man nor his parents sinned," said Jesus, "but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life.
This principle is just as true for being born in a body that does not match your brain as being born in a body with an organ (eye/ leg/ etc) that does not function like most people’s.
Biblical texts opposed to cross-dressing
Deuteronomy 22:5
5The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God
The term “abomination” here is the term to’evah, which we already studied. This deals with ritual purity, not morality. The cross-dressing it condemns is not an expression of gender dysphoria but a part of the ceremonies used by temple prostitutes in pagan fertility cults.
The analogy of the eunuch, the main expression of transgenderism in Biblical times.
The eunuch was not allowed full membership in Old Covenant community.
Deuteronomy 23:1
This was based on the idea of God’s perfection. Only animals without blemishes could be offered at the altar. Only people without physical defects could come to the Temple to worship. Likewise, physically disabled people were not allowed to worship at Temple.
Even in Old Testament, it is revealed God’s intent is to include these gender minorities, because God looks at the heart, not outward appearance.
Isaiah 56:3-8
Jesus affirms the fact becoming a gender minority may be a way of living out kingdom values.
The Holy Spirit led the early Christian church to accept those in this trans-gendered position as equally children of God, including them in baptism.
Acts 8:26-39
Gender Queer/TG Saints
Gender not deciding factor about relationship with God; instead it is faith and grace.
Galatians 3:26-28
Romans 10:11-12