“Be happy with the body God gave you”

I am happy with the body I was given, but that doesn’t mean I can’t change it or that I would only want to change it because I’m not happy with it. What if I’m happy because I can change it?

What if God was less like an aloof patriarchal father telling you how you should think and feel and behave, and was more like a close companion, a fellow sufferer who understands the pain of conditioned existence, with whom I participate in the process of creation’s divine unfolding?

What if God made me this way to see how I would respond, so that She may respond in turn?

What if the World is not the slave of a Godly master? What if the World and God are friends elevating each other through their mutual reception and transformation of each other through the power of love?

Trans people are divine, and our living gospel is the Good News that we — trans and cis alike — are not fixed and frozen beings in eternal suspension but historical flows of relational becoming; that we live, grow and realize our highest potential in communion with others — past, present and future.