Many at present are very hostile others range from ambivalent to affirming.
In the first section, Hartke creates the knowledge base that provides sufficient understanding of the forces and various perspectives within the Christian community. The book is written in two major sections. The book is a resounding success and it is a must-read for the thoughtful Christian or person of faith seeking to engage in conversations about gender and sexuality, or who just seeks greater understanding of the questions surrounding these topics. He holds a Master of Arts degree in Old Testament/Hebrew Bible Studies from Luther Seminary, and he is a transman. Hartke is an ideal voice for the task at hand.
It is with this backdrop that Austen Hartke has put out his timely book, Transforming: The Bible and the Lives of Transgender Christians. The “Christian Right,” feeling empowered from the Houston success, proceeded to pass North Carolina’s House Bill 2 in the spring of 2016, again actively taking a hostile position toward transgender civil rights and civil rights in general. The Proposition was resoundingly defeated, overturning the ordinance and eliminating broad protections for a wide range of minorities including transgender people. The optimism was short lived, however, as the battle over Houston’s Proposition 1 quickly heated up, with the Evangelical Christian community leading the charge in an effort to overturn a Houston Civil Rights ordinance that provided protection to minority members of the Houston community, including transgender people. The feeling that the tipping point was past seemed logical. At that time, it seemed transgender rights were going to advance nicely on the heels of the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in late 2010 and with the U.S. Looking back over the past four years it feels like the Time magazine declaration was premature. administrative law and policy across a wide array of U.S.
Since January 2017, the efforts have expanded to include both U.S. The efforts don’t stop at the state level, but include local ordinances and school system policies. Starting in 2015 and continuing to this day, there have been numerous bills and referendums at the state level offered for consideration, passed by state legislatures and some even signed into law by governors. At the forefront of this push, in large part, are evangelical and fundamentalist churches, and leaders within these movements. Since this issue, there have been and there are presently ongoing actions at various levels of government that seek to deny transgender people civil rights. The Jcover story of Time magazine proclaimed, “The Transgender Tipping Point” with a photo of actor Laverne Cox, a prominent, successful transgender woman.
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