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Megan Best1, Patricia Weerakoon2
1Institute for Ethics and Society, University of Notre Dame Australia, 104 Broadway, PO Box 944, Sydney, NSW, 2007, Australia. megan.best@nd.edu.au.
Abstract:
This study was designed to understand the interaction between Christian faith and gender incongruence. An anonymous online survey was advertised to the Australian Christian community. Individuals with first-hand experience of transgender issues were eligible to participate. There were 122 eligible responses. This paper describes the experience of the 30 participants experiencing gender incongruence. Persons in the church experiencing gender incongruence desired to hold onto faith. As a result, they experienced a tension between the desire to remain in the church, and the desire to live congruously with their gender, which could lead to expulsion. Strategies to reconcile these two factors varied.
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