I’ve met Rev. Heath only briefly, but her spouse was a classmate of mine in Seminary. She is far from the only trans or gender non-conforming person I know; and they all relate the same narrative that Emily gives voice to here: “I’m telling you that no trans or gender non-conforming person wants to use the bathroom for any other reason than you do. I’m telling you that this has never been about sexual predators (who don’t need bathrooms to hurt people, and who won’t be discouraged by an anti-trans bathroom law), but about harming trans people. I’m telling you that I’d like to spend a whole lot less time thinking about bathrooms than I do.”
If we are serious about our Christian faith, then we need to ask – FIRST – how our attitudes to others express the love that Christ mandates – MANDATES (via the Second Great Commandment) – that we show in all our dealings them, and that we do so without condition or exception.
And, will they see that love in how we are acting and speaking towards them? If they don’t, then we are failing to love them as we are required to do by the most basic tenets of our faith.
The anti-LGBTQ laws recently passed in NC and elsewhere do not pass this test. And so, we must seriously and deeply re-examine our own motivations and faith principles if we believe this was the Christian thing to do.
Source: On Restrooms, Gender, and Fear
The Here and the Hereafter 