I used to get people arguing against my gender by saying, "God doesn't make mistakes." I hear that less often now, but my response to it has been: "God doesn't make mistakes, but God, who made me, created me as a transgender person; therefore my being trans must not be a mistake, and trying to deny or repress that would be contrary to God's plan for me. I don't know why God chose these challenges for me, but I'm meant to figure out how to move along, and thrive upon, this path that includes transition in it."
I recently heard a sermon by Jay Hulme (that I need to transcribe some of to quote from) saying something similar but more connected to scripture and better phrased, as well as the sermon by Rev. Joplin I quoted from today. IIRC, Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg has said something similar about trans people not being (nor implying) a mistake, but it might have been someone she linked to, or one of the other rabbis I read on Twitter.
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I used to get people arguing against my gender by saying, "God doesn't make mistakes." I hear that less often now, but my response to it has been: "God doesn't make mistakes, but God, who made me, created me as a transgender person; therefore my being trans must not be a mistake, and trying to deny or repress that would be contrary to God's plan for me. I don't know why God chose these challenges for me, but I'm meant to figure out how to move along, and thrive upon, this path that includes transition in it."
I recently heard a sermon by Jay Hulme (that I need to transcribe some of to quote from) saying something similar but more connected to scripture and better phrased, as well as the sermon by Rev. Joplin I quoted from today. IIRC, Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg has said something similar about trans people not being (nor implying) a mistake, but it might have been someone she linked to, or one of the other rabbis I read on Twitter.