U. Iowa Grad Student Claims 34 Early Christian Saints Were Transgender
“Based on these stories, I argue that Christianity has a transgender history to pull from and many opportunities to embrace transness as an essential part of its values”
The left sure does seem to like rewriting history to reflect the LGBT agenda.
The College Fix reports:
‘Holy transness’: U. Iowa grad student says 34 early Christian saints were transgender
Christianity is not “anti-trans,” and there are early church saints to prove it, a University of Iowa graduate student wrote recently.
In her piece at The Conversation, Sarah Barringer said scholars have identified at least 34 “transgender saints” in early Christianity – evidence that “not all Christians are anti-trans.”
“Based on these stories, I argue that Christianity has a transgender history to pull from and many opportunities to embrace transness as an essential part of its values,” she wrote.
Along with her graduate studies, Barringer also teaches literature courses at the public university, according to her bio at The Conversation. Her dissertation is titled “Transmasculine Narratives in Medieval Literature.”
“And in my research of medieval history and literature, I found evidence of a long history in Christianity of what today could be called ‘transgender’ saints,” she wrote. “While such a term did not exist in medieval times, the idea of men living as women, or women living as men, was unquestionably present in the medieval period.”
Barringer gave three examples: St. Eugenia, St. Euphrosyne, and St. Marinos.
“All three were born as women but cut their hair and put on men’s clothes to live as men and join monasteries,” she wrote.
“Eugenia, raised pagan, joined a monastery to learn more about Christianity and later became abbot. Euphrosyne joined a monastery to escape an unwanted suitor and spent the rest of his life there. Marinos, born Marina, decided to renounce womanhood and live with his father at the monastery as a man,” Barringer wrote.
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Please provide plausible proof.
then the left should never more have a problem with christians!
We should troll them by “proving” that 27 of them were early fascists.
Cool.
Now do a paper on how early Muslim figures were trans.
Be sure you have a safehouse and cover identify prepared first.
Looking at what this Grad Student wrote
1. It would mean any tomboy is actually transgender
2. It would mean any female soldier or sailor or airman is transgender
3. It would mean Joan of Arc was transgender
4. It would mean Grace O Malley was transgender
I could go on but the entire premise is
“They cut their hair in order to join communities of holy brothers in a time when there weren’t any convents and they wished to still draw themselves away from the world and be closer to Christ. Any woman or girl who isn’t stereotypically feminine and spending all of her husband’s money on fancy jewelry and getting her hair done is a transgender man therefore they are all transgender”.
In other words the arguments from the grad student are even dumber than just being plain propaganda made up out of thin air.
In those days there were real differences between living as a man and as a woman. For some reason these born females chose to live in a monastery rather than convent. They could have been asexual in either place. I don’t really understand, but it might make sense as the monastery is probably seen as spiritually higher in that tradition, so they aspired to the higher role.
In today’s secular society it makes so little sense. Whatever you want to do you can do it, man or woman, except reproductive things, and clothes and jewelry don’t change those things.
I don’t understand why it happens now.
Pet Rocks. Garbage Pail Kids. Mood Rings.
Off the top of my head Saint Eugenia (died third century ad) died prior to the first convent for women and girls in Egypt (Saint Catherine’s established in the 6th century) existing, and every source we have on her makes it explicit that she was leaving because her father found a good match for her and she wanted to live a celibate life for Christ.
The early church pre-Constantine the Great’s conversion did not have convents. the first one was the 7th century with convents becoming common between 500-1000 ad depending on location in Europe. The earliest female scholasticism was the desert mothers who lived completely alone. The choice of total isolation or male clothes.
To give an example of how late convents came to Europe the first Convent in what is today England was the 7th century.
Even after the creation of convents the opportunities for advancement within the church for a male monk vs female nun was night and day. The myth about Pope Joan actually gives a lot of hints because she eventually becomes the pope after starting as a monk instead of nun. If you accept what the Vatican calls a myth as a true story it would mean a woman could become pope by changing her dress.
Medieval people did not think you could change sex but you could change opportunities by use of a disguise.
It isn’t unlike the story of how Mulan dressed as a man in order to get an opportunity to be a soldier.
Yuh.
Molly Pitcher was not trans.
Transness in today’s world is men and women claiming to be a sex that they are not because they genuinely believe in their mind that they are the opposite of their biological sex.
The three women she cited did not change their appearance to look like men because they believed they were men, but to gain access to a position that they were forbidden to practice because of being female.
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