GOD MADE TRANS PEOPLE FOR THE SAME REASON HE MADE GRAPES BUT NOT WINE WHO ARE WE TO DENY THIS DIVINE ALCHEMY OF THE SELF?
daniel lavery, “something that may shock and discredit you”
[Image: text that reads “As my friend Julian puts it, only half winkingly: ‘God blessed me by making me transsesxual for the same reason God made wheat but not bread and fruit but not wine, so that humanity might share in the act of creation.’]
The Julian in question is writer Julian K. Jarboe and I believe the quote in question is from a poem in their collection “Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel”
Also here’s a Twitter thread on their thoughts about that quote going viral and often unsourced and also the theological background of it.


























