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 transgenderChristianity 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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