by Agnes Rosenberg » Thu Aug 22, 2019 2:07 am
How do I explain transgenders to children?
I tell them, we are not bodies with souls. We are souls who are housed in temporary bodies.
Our souls do not have gender, it is infinite, it is moveable, it is immortal, it is eternal. Our souls are energy, and energy is not limited to such temporal things as gender. It is as powerful as the universe is powerful, immutable to the changing whims of the material world.
Why do some very white people feel black? Why do you feel attached to a certain race? Why do you feel like you were born into the wrong era? Why do you feel strongly connected to a man who is not your husband? Why are there disconnects in this world?
And why is it an aberration when it is gender that you have a disconnect to?
So, children...
Sometimes our souls match the body it is born into. Sometimes, the soul feels differently.
Sometimes the body it is born into is imperfect—it lacks legs or arms or has a dysfunctional heart, but the soul is perfectly made, and has dreams and goals just like one who is born into an able body. It is the perfect soul that is able to overcome the limitations of its imperfect body.
Those stories of overcoming, are stories of our souls winning over our imperfect, impermanent bodies.
Sometimes, I tell them, the body it is born into is male, but the soul’s current incarnation is female, and the soul feels confused as it grows into its body.
When they are able, for example, when they grow up and can afford to do it, they try to match their body with their souls, which is why you will see men dressing up as women, because their hearts and souls think they are women.
So, you mean God makes mistakes, they ask. No, he doesn’t. God makes perfect souls. He doesn’t make mistakes. He makes challenges that our souls need to overcome.
We all have our own journeys. And the cause of conflict is that we judge other journeys according to our own limited understanding, according to our capacities, which are not full and complete.
I understand that it is too late to change the views of others about accepting—fully accepting, not lip service—those who are different or those who do not conform to societal expectations.
Bigotry and intolerance are not things you can change overnight, but those of us who want to fight for the rights of the LGBT community must explain to children, and explain to them well, and open their hearts and minds, so that the world they leave their own children is infinitely better than the world we are leaving them.
SOME PEOPLE ARE LESBIAN, GAY,
BISEXUAL, TRANSGENDER... GET OVER IT.