Christina Sabrina... Discovering a Butch Lesbian Drag Queen

Seven concepts to empower and liberate

The fact that I am transgendered came as a complete surprise since I am one of the people somewhere in the middle of the gender continuum...

How many guys do you know with the name 'Barb'?

While the church was looking the other way, gender issues became much more complex, and as a consequence, much of the debate within church walls is increasingly irrelevant to the realities with which individuals are struggling.

She, with her eyes of different colors, and I, a crossdresser, two people among the many unlike us in that place, were each as normal as a wheat field in the sun. We are, simply, facts of life.

Just suppose for a minute that Jesus was transgendered. What was his position on the Jewish laws which forbade it? See how radical Jesus really was.

If you've ever wondered if Jesus can really identify with the transgendered, consider these similarities between his life and ours.

As a church family you have been wonderful to me as Bob, and it is my sincere desire and prayer that this will continue as my life continues to change, and as I enter my new gender role as Brenda.

Jesus gives us a model of how to live our lives--by demonstrating high character and tolerance of others whom we wish were more tolerant of us.

Not really male, not really female. I appear to live on the cusp of indecision. But only because we are taught to demand a decision.

It wasn't very long before I discovered there are "police" on the border between the identity called lesbian and the identity called trans, especially the identity of pre-operative transsexual women.

Four articles originally published in the May-June 2001 issue of The Other Side magazine, exploring gender identity and the church. Authors include: Virginia Ramey Mollenkott, Erin Swenson, Chris Paige, and Robyn Shanor.

After sixteen months of contentious discussion and debate, in October 1996 the Presbytery of Greater Atlanta voted to sustain my ordination, making me the first mainline Protestant minister to undergo a gender transition and retain ordination.

Understanding and tolerating our differences is important, not only because we share the same God, but because we share similar challenges as we all strive to embody who God has created each of us to be.

Unhappy in-laws, lawsuits, tax courts, probate courts, and many other adversarial realities in our world create a pall of threat over every transgender marriage.

Living on the Edge.