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7 Bible Verses About Transgender, Including the Passages on Eunuchs

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  • The word transgender does not appear in the Bible; passages that bear on the question concern creation as male and female, God forming a person in the womb, clothing, and eunuchs.
  • Deuteronomy 22:5 stands among laws on stray animals, a bird’s nest, a roof parapet, mixed seed and mixed fabrics, and it is the only law in Deuteronomy 22:1-12 whose stated reason is that the Lord detests the practice.
  • Jesus quotes Genesis 1:27 to Pharisees asking about divorce (Matthew 19:4), then tells his disciples of eunuchs “born that way,” eunuchs “made eunuchs by others,” and those who “choose to live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 19:12).
  • Isaiah 56:4-5 promises eunuchs who keep the covenant a memorial within the temple walls, and in Acts 8 an Ethiopian eunuch is baptized after Philip explains Isaiah 53 to him.
  • Galatians 3:28 tells those baptized into Christ that there is “neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female.”

The word transgender does not appear in the Bible. Passages that bear on the question include humanity created “male and female” (Genesis 1:27, quoted by Jesus in Matthew 19:4), God forming a person in the womb (Psalm 139:13-14), men’s and women’s clothing (Deuteronomy 22:5), eunuchs (Isaiah 56:4-5, Matthew 19:12, Acts 8:36-38), and male and female in Christ (Galatians 3:28). A eunuch was a castrated man or, by extension, an impotent or unmarried man, and the Greek word can also mean…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

Strong’s Greek 2135, εὐνοῦχος (eunouchos): a castrated person; by extension an impotent or unmarried man; by implication a chamberlain (state-officer). biblehub.com/greek/2135

Strong’s Hebrew 5631, סָרִיס (saris): eunuch, officer, court official. biblehub.com/hebrew/5631

Southern Baptist Convention. “On Transgender Identity”, resolution adopted in Baltimore, June 2014. sbc.net

Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith. Dignitas Infinita, on human dignity, 2024. vatican.va

United Church of Christ. LGBTQIA+ Ministries and Open and Affirming resources. ucc.org/lgbtqia

United Church of Christ. Transgender and nonbinary resources. ucc.org/lgbtqia/transgender

The Episcopal Church, General Convention 2012, Resolution D019, Amend Canon I.17.5 [Rights of Laity]. episcopalarchives.org

The Episcopal Church, General Convention 2012, Resolution D002, Amend Canon III.1.2 [Access to Discernment Process for Ministry]. episcopalarchives.org

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