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at logos.com slash NT. And welcome to the Ask Antirite Anything podcast. I'm Mike Bird from

Ridley College in Melbourne, Australia. And I'm Tom Wright from Oxford in England.

And we're here to answer your questions about the Bible, Christian faith, and the little

things that might be annoying you or raising your curiosity when it comes to the life of faith.

And today, Tom, we've got some absolutely amazing questions. These are really good

questions. These are real humdingers. We've got a question about transgender. We've got a question

about, you know, deconstruction and, you know, being on the verge of abandoning your faith

and whether Jesus was wrong about the end of the world. Well, let's dive into

our first question, which is a big one, and it's very topical for the new cycle we live in.

It's from William First, who is from Canada, and it's this, hi Tom. I am a transgender man, female transition to male,

and a lover of Christ. I came out when I was very young and transitioned early on in my life.

All that to say, I am fully transitioned. There's not much left that distinguishes me from your

average born male. I came to Christ after having gone through all the hormone surgery and living

as a man for 10 years. Often when I hear people who were transgender then became a Christian,

it's a story of them detransitioning to be their natural born gender. It seems these people are almost always at the beginning

steps of their transition and can easily, so to speak, revert back. So my question is, what would the Bible have to say about someone in my case?

I feel that if I was following God when I was younger, I probably would have tried my best to suppress

the feelings that I was born in the wrong body and seek counseling. I have no desire to

detransition. In fact, it would feel very weird to me.

I'm about as male as you can get. I love hockey, trucks, I lift weights, and I'm going to serve

in the military. Those things don't necessarily make you a man, but I hope it helps you paint a picture.

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