I understand it from a financial POV: church-related schools will lose money and standing when they have to discipline non-Christian students for not toeing the Christian line against 'moral turpitude'.
I understand it from a gender-behaviour POV: if we can't determine who is male and who is female easily, simply, and early, then we don't know whether they're transgressing the 'appropriate behaviours' for their gender group.
But I can't find any reason other than "He created them male and female" - which certainly doesn't mention race or disability, intellectual capability, or anything beyond the basic genetic prototype needed for the reproduction of every person on the planet.
I used to think that maybe trans people were a 'mistake'. That they were a product of the fall, and that without sin everyone would have been born male or female. But that imputes a whole category of people who don't fit the mould into "you are the physical presence representing the existence of sin in the world" which...I can't think of anything less Christ-like, frankly. I feel like that dismisses the variety of humanity that God made, and the diversity of God's vision for humanity.
There's a whole conversation about disability in there, but I don't know how to have it. Yet.
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