An Episcopal priestess Rev Flourish Klink has told a congregation at New York City’s Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine that God is trans and argued that Jesus can be understood as having transitioned following his resurrection.
Klink delivered the remarks during the cathedral’s Celebration of Trans Joy and Resilience, a noonday prayer service organised with the Episcopal Diocese of New York.
In a sermon published by Klink, she argued that God exists beyond conventional human categories of male and female and therefore described God as non-binary and, more specifically, trans.
She then applied the argument to the birth of Jesus, claiming that Mary effectively assigned God a gender based on the baby’s physical appearance.
“When God, who, as we have established, is non-binary, was born in human form as our Lord Jesus Christ, Mary said, ‘Oh look, a baby boy.’ God isn’t a boy. We have established this. God is beyond boy and girl,” she said.
