The Experience of Gender Incongruity in the Christian Church: A Qualitative Study

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 r...

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VerfasserInnen: Best, Megan (VerfasserIn) ; Weerakoon, Patricia (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Springer Science + Business Media B. V. 2021
In: Journal of religion and health
Jahr: 2021, Band: 60, Heft: 6, Seiten: 4029-4044
weitere Schlagwörter:B Church
B Religion
B Transgender
B Gender incongruence
B Identity
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Zusammenfassung: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.
ISSN:1573-6571
Enthält:Enthalten in: Journal of religion and health
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s10943-021-01281-y