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2010 Equality Act
Includes gender reassignment as a protected characteristic

Early Church - Gender Reassignment
- Strongly condemned those who underwent surgery to modify their sex
- Ordination to the priesthood = Not permitted for eunuchs

Eunuch
Castrated male

What does the Bible say about changing gender ?
Nothing

Supporting Denominations
Liberal Protestants & Church of England

Denominations Against Gender Reassignment
- Fundamentalist Protestants
- Catholicism

Liberal Protestants & Church of England
- Accept transgender people and transgender rights
- Many denominations accept transgender ministers: since 2000, they have continued their ministry and are accepted for ordination
- Marriage = Permitted where one member of the couple is transgender
- Special naming ceremonies are proposed for transgender members

Fundamentalist Protestants
- God alone decides gender
- Since he does not make any mistakes, it is an act of rebellion against God to change it

Catholicism
- Rejects changing gender
- Report issued in 2000 said that surgery did NOT change the identity of the person
- Might be permissible in extreme cases, e.g. being intersex
- Marriage of transgender people can never be valid
