There’s a long history of Jesus challenging gender norms: ‘I think of it as his coming out moment’

In November 2022, right-wing media was abuzz that a University of Cambridge sermon claimed ‘Jesus was trans’.

The outcry kicked off after a fellow junior researcher from Trinity College analysed and discussed various artistic interpretations of Jesus.

During the analysis, the researcher asked the audience to consider the yonic depiction of the spear wound on Jesus’s side – which, according to the New Testament, was where his body was pierced at the crucifixion – and to ponder on the opportunities this has for thinking about Jesus’ identity. 

Predictably, there was a media and online pile-on in response to the sermons, with headlines claiming the researcher suggested Jesus was trans. 

The Telegraph and the Daily Mail claimed worshippers were left “in tears” about the “row over Christ’s wound having a ‘vaginal appearance’” – both

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