That's their business, not the church's, which only adds to the difficulties of being transgendered in a majority Christian culture. Christian advice would be to just tough it out in one's biological gender, which is also a source of unhappiness. Such people will encounter difficulties whatever path they take, even without the church persecuting them. Christianity has nothing helpful to say to them. It has no answers to those problems. The choices seem to be gender dysphoria by not acting, and a life of hormones and bigotry.
I'd say that that is going in the wrong direction. Christians assume that their religion's moral dicta facilitate good behavior, personal happiness, and societal well-being, but I see the opposite.
Society will prosper from getting further from the Bible. It already has many times. Humanist values are much more likely to create societal happiness and well-being. The humanist community is not beset with scandal like the Christian community. Humanism has no Palins or Duggars, You say society could use more biblical influence, but look at where the Bible has its greatest influence, places such as the Catholic church. We can do better than that without religious influence.
And the church's reply to all of its failures? Those weren't true Christians. Of course they were. That's the only kind there is. Some are good people and some are failed people, with the ratios being much worse than in humanist communities. A major difference is that humanism is the embodiment of the Golden Rule, something Christianity gives lip service to even as it goes on treating people in ways that Christians would not want themselves treated. It's why the humanist community is at peace with and supportive of the transgendered even as the church labors to make their lives as miserable as it can. Shame on the church.
Now you're contradicting yourself. First you advocate for more Bible to bring "peace with our gender, with our life," and then you say that nothing will help before the apocalypse. Humanism can. Humanism is sensible and decent. Christianity is neither. It claims the moral high ground for itself, but its track record is miserable. It's results have been disappointing. It's program for people building is a failure compared to humanism.
Look at the number of anti-science people it produces. Look at the number of poor thinkers it generates making the worst arguments here on RF. Look at how readily they become anti-vaxxers and support the Republican party. You won't see that with humanists. Look at the humanists on RF. You'd consider them your best Christians if they called themselves that, if they said they believed in Jesus but rejected the church's understanding of his message and substituted its own. At last, you would see Christ-like behavior. Those are people you would call true Christians if they identified as Christian.
Here are two now. I like this exchange between these two atheist hosts of a cable call-in talk show and a Christian caller. From
CHRISTIAN Negates His Own MORALITY - The Atheist Experience - YouTube This nicely illustrates the people building tendencies of these two traditions. These humanists are absolutely disgusted with this Christian:
Tracie (humanist: "You either have a God who sends child rapists to rape children or you have a God who simply watches it and says, 'When you're done, I'm going to punish you' .. If I were in a situation where I could stop a person from raping a child, I would. That's the difference between me and your God."
Shane (Christian caller): "True to life, you portray that little girl as someone who is innocent. She's just as evil as you."
Matt (humanist): [click] Goodbye, you piece of ****. I was a better Christian than you when I was a Christian and I still am.
Sorry, but the world needs less of this, not more. Yeah, I know, the caller is not a true Christian or a good person, and the humanists, who are good people, are stealing from Christianity.
I understand how angry words like mine make Christians, and I would have no reason to outline the failures of Christianity were Christians not taking credit for it that it doesn't deserve and implying that the move to secularism was harmful to society. But you did, and therefore so did I to set the record straight.