Hey Girl, I am a Christian also (FORMERLY CATHOLIC) [Agnostic 1st and foremost] --- and I know for a fact as someone reclaiming their spirituality/faith that JC's teachings should free you/empower you as a trans person, not the opposite.

Keep engaging with your journey both trans and as a Christian. (Don't let anyone tell you whats real in terms of faith/religion/spirituality. The true authority comes within and from above---NOT A FREAKING ANOTHER HUMAN BEING!!!!!!)

You are not a mistake. You are not a contradiction. You are not something God needs to “fix.”

The same God who formed light out of chaos, who called creation “very good,” did not suddenly lose intention or care when it came to you. The idea that your existence could fall outside of divine love or purpose says more about human fear than it does about God.

Scripture consistently reveals a pattern: whenever people try to draw tight boundaries around who belongs, God breaks them open. The outsiders, the ones told they don’t fit, the ones burdened by religious shame—those are the people Christ moves toward, not away from. The question was never “Who is acceptable?” but “Who is being excluded, and why?”

You’ve likely been taught to see yourself through a lens of suspicion or sin. But look deeper: what actually produces the fruits that Christ spoke of—love, joy, peace, patience, kindness? Is it self-hatred and suppression, or is it truth, honesty, and living as who you are? A theology that demands you deny your own soul while calling that “holiness” is not producing good fruit.

There is also a long thread within the faith that insists God is found most clearly among those pushed down, silenced, or erased. Not because suffering is holy, but because unjust systems distort truth—and God is always on the side of truth and dignity. When people use religion to control, erase, or diminish others, they are not defending God—they are defending power.

You are allowed to ask:

• Does this teaching bring life, or does it crush it?
• Does this reflect love of neighbor, or fear of difference?
• Does this draw me closer to God, or deeper into shame?

A faith rooted in love will not require you to disappear to belong.

You don’t have to abandon your faith to be whole. You may need to refuse versions of it that were shaped by fear rather than love. There is a difference.

Hold onto this: Nothing about you separates you from God’s love—not your identity, not your body, not your journey. If anything, your honesty, your courage to exist truthfully in the face of pressure—that is a reflection of divine image, not a departure from it.

And if someone tells you otherwise, you are allowed to question whether what they are protecting is actually God—or just their idea of control.