James Talarico

The first two lines of the Bible, the first two lines in Genesis, use two different Hebrew words to describe God.

One is the masculine Hebrew noun for divinity.

The second is the feminine

Hebrew noun for spirit.

God is both masculine and feminine and everything in between.

God is non-binary.

In Genesis 1.26, God speaks of God's self in the plural, saying, let us make human beings in our image to be like us.

That's the infinite multitude of God.

the masculine, the feminine, and everything in between.

Trans children are God's children, made in God's own image.

Before we go further, I want to acknowledge that our trans community needs abortion care, too.

Defending trans Texans is something we have to do every day.

No need to sit and cry over your whiteness or your masculinity.

Use it.

Use it to do something.

Let's be productive.

I often think when reclaiming symbols, I think about the American flag.

I think the Confederate flag is a symbol of treason and terrorism.

But the American flag is such a complicated symbol for most of us.

And in many ways, like Jesus, like the cross, it's been co-opted and in some ways its true meaning has been betrayed.