JORAS - Nigerian Journal of Religion and Society

The thrust of this paper is the examination of the issue of transgender as it relates to our human sexuality through the lens of the teachings of the church. It is no doubt that since the debut of feminism in the late 18th century the society has continued to grow along the lines of new and strange anthropological ideologies which have constructively reconstructed and/or deliberately disparage natural realities and at worst, left so many today in a state of confused anthropological presentations of man as man and woman as woman so much so that the divine institution of “male and female He created them” has to a certain extent knuckled under. This is a form of denaturalization that has permeated the entire society leaving no stone untouched all in the garb of freedom and right. It has altered our school curriculums, our laws, and even our basic concept and/or definition of male, female and marriage. In fact, the Church appears to be most confronted by this ideology so much so that it seeks to destabilize the very heart of the church's teaching on marriage and priesthood. Thus, on a critical note, this paper tends examining the response and position of the Church to this new anthropological dimension of gender that seems to denaturalize our human sexuality and institutions.

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