Transgender & Catholic Resources
If you don’t know anything about trans people, start here!
Transgender & Catholic Resources
Here are some videos and podcasts I have made or appeared on discussing the topic.
SCIENCE
Video: Non-Binary Is Made Up (this is actually a great primer on science)
Article: The Gender Spectrum: A Scientist Explains Why Gender Isn’t Binary (extremely good and very thorough explanation)
Article: What does the scholarly research say about the effect of gender transition on transgender well-being?
Article: Transgender brains are more like their desired gender from an early age
Article: Sex-reassignment surgery yields long-term mental health benefits, study finds
Article: Sex redefined: The idea of two sexes is simplistic. Biologists now think there is a wider spectrum than that.
Article: Transgender Fertility
Video Essay: Responding to JK Rowlings Essay | Is It Anti-Trans?
Blog: Dysphoria and Dysmorphia: Understanding Identity and Mental Illness
Article: Phantom penises in transsexuals: Evidence of an innate gender-specific body image in the brain [this academic research from 2008 uses the outdated term “transsexual” which is not appropriate for us to use].
RELIGION
Article: What Does the Bible Say About Transgender People?
Article: Why I Still Call Myself a Catholic
Website: Affirming Catholic Community Vine and Fig
Article: The Benefit of Discontent (a response to Pope Francis saying to parents of LGBT children that “God loves your children as they are” and “the church loves your children as they are because they are children of God.”
Article: I Thought Gay Celibacy Was My Only Option — I Was Wrong by Pat Gothman
Podcast: Trans & Christian, Homily given by Fr. Shannon TL Kearns “We Were Never Meant to Survive.”
Article: Catholic Cyber-Militias and the New Censorship
Article: The Edge of the Inside by Richard Rohr
Video: What is religious trauma?
Video: Fr Shay on Jesus’s Scars and Transgender Bodies
Video: miracles are real | feat. Kevin Garcia, from Vine and Fig
Video: The Fierce Utah Moms Protecting LGBTQ Youth
Podcast: Cameron Espisito on Queerology (Good overview of power issues in the church)
E-mail Newsletter — scroll to the bottom for RCIA but gay: Transubstantiation
Video: Them | Can you be religious and queer?
Article: An Interview with Audrey Assad on Deconstructing Fundamentalist Faith
GENDER IDENTIY
Video: Is Gender REAL? 8-Bit Philosophy
Video: Philosophy Tube… What is Gender?
Article: NY Times, Becoming a Man
Article: Tips for Getting Pronouns Right
TRANS SOCIAL COMMENTARY
Video Essay: Shrek | A Queer Analysis
BBC Video Experiment: Girls toys vs boy toys
POETRY
A Litany for Survival by Audre Lorde
PODCAST
Vine & Fig Podcast - Max Telling His Story
BOOKS
Man Alive by Thomas Page McBee
Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man by Thomas Page McBee
Building a Bridge by Fr James Martin
Not Just a Tomboy by Casper Baldwin
Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography by Katrina Karkazis and Rebecca Jordan-Young