Trans Women of Color Built the Church

On February 27th the United Methodist Church voted to affirm the “Traditional Plan.” As such Jerry Kulah, of Gbarnga School of Theology in Liberia said

We must support the traditional plan, because it is the biblical plan.

And. I. Lost. It.

I was filled with tears to hear this African man say that my life, my marriage and my identity was not just invalid, but it was damnable, and anti-Christ. When I read the Bible, I understand it as an inherently queer book, and it breaks my heart that men such as Kulah are…