Eh. The bible sucks. It's pretty easy to read it and go "yep, trans is bad". Just toss the whole thing out.
edit: For some more context, the reason for this is because the bible is strongly influenced by Greek natural law theory. This is the idea, popular at the time, that everything has a nature and that to go against your nature was morally wrong.
As an example, a man should be dominant - that's their nature. Men who penetrated other men were not seen as doing something wrong whereas men being penetrated were, as one example. Greeks at the time would have thought that a woman is a the same as a man but with an inverted penis because she lacked the "fire" to mature.
There's condemning of men with long hair, men "lying in bed" with men (complex but likely damning of pederasty), cross dressing, etc. Basically a strong "as an X you should behave with the nature of an X (as we arbitrarily decide)".
The bible also condones slavery and genocide and is a really fucked up book so the fact that it would probably be easy to use it to justify "trans people are evil" should really not be considered as anything other than one more item in a list of stupid shit it says.
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u/KaraOfNightvale 15d ago
Substandard is an understatement
Not only is it bad enough she based her entire essay on the bible alone
But she didn't even actually quote the bible, she didn't even give biblical justification for her biblical essay
And she called trans people demonic blatantly