Advice for Affirming Parents of Transgender Youth - Austen Hartke

Austen Hartke is the author of "Transforming: The Bible and the Lives of Transgender Christians," a book on theology and personal narratives published by Westminster John Knox Press in 2018.
He is also the founder and director of Transmission Ministry Collective, an online community dedicated to the spiritual care, faith formation, and leadership potential of transgender and gender-expansive Christians.
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Austen is a graduate of Luther Seminary’s Master of Arts program in Old Testament/Hebrew Bible Studies, and is the winner of the 2014 John Milton Prize in Old Testament Writing. Learn more about him:
austenhartke.com/
Check out his book:
Transforming: The Bible & The Lives of Transgender Christians
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[@albertfralinger2711]

Asking a genuine question here, why does it seem like transgenderism is the only disorder that we affirm rather than try to correct? We don’t affirm body dysmorphia or similar conditions, so why is transgenderism different? Thanks

[@BeautifulMuslim99]

There is corrective intervention. Transgender woman can obtain a vagina. So she is female by definition of the outlit and plug theory. Transgender men should not have kids since they cant breast feed and having children is a womans desire. So a transgender man since technology wouod never really get that far they can have a ovectomy or removal of ovaries. Maby all those trans men that keep wombs tissues can give to women born without wombs or women that cant have kids or transwomen that are post gcs only. Sort of like a womb refrigerator but the tissue can be kept alive so when they find a candidate that needs a womb they can offer it to them. Transgender isn't the correct terminology because since trans people identify with the gender they identify it's just the Dysphoria of genitalia so the correct terminology is transsexual. Gender Dysphoria belongs to people who are homosexual or lesbian or gay. Bisexuality is nothing but adultry in the heart? A pre op transgender will always be bisexual and that sexual activity will always be bisexual. To be straight is to have opposite gender attraction to be heterosexual is opposite sex attraction.

[@BeautifulMuslim99]

You can't be a lesbian and hold a bible... maby you can and that spirit leaves you and you transition since your faith in loving women is that strong.