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Reading Aquinas’s five proofs as a trans man
Both faith and identity are lives to inhabit, not arguments to win. There is nothing to prove.
The genders within us
I am more and more convinced that trans people’s gender multiplicity will point us to our collective liberation.
An accomplished soldier, fired for no reason
Sergeant First Class Kate Cole isn’t an activist. She isn’t a radical. She’s a trans woman, a rock climber, and my friend—and after 17 years of military service, Trump kicked her out.
Derek Webb’s new album offers songs for LGBTQ solidarity
Survival Songs champions queer lives—and challenges the silence of faith communities.
What can the church offer trans people right now?
Baptism and Eucharist should rework all of our ideas about identity.
My gender is a circle
So I took a new name—as many characters in the Bible do.
by R/B Mertz
The transfiguration of Larissa
When my parishioner returned to church, she seemed to have crossed a threshold that revealed her true self.
by Heidi Neumark
State anti-trans bills aren’t just culture wars skirmishes
They’re acts of harm against living, breathing people.