Academic: Churches are becoming more welcoming to transgender people
Churches around the world are softening their position on transgender people, according to a study by a Cambridge University academic.
The issue was highlighted earlier this year with the high-profile transition of US Olympian Bruce Jenner to Caitlyn Jenner, which caused a furore among conservative Christians.
However, Rev Duncan Dormor of St John's College examined the positions of major Christian denominations and found that a growing number of Churches around the world are taking an inclusive approach.
Dormor undertook the study as his contribution to a book, The Legal Status of Transsexual and Transgender Persons. He says he has identified "a slow, sometimes grudging, but growing momentum for change among Christians within Protestantism especially"....