Happy dysphoria-free Christ day, my dear queers!

Year on year, I see more and more people posting about this reading of Christ's resurrected body as that of a trans man post-mastectomy, and wanted to explore this a bit. (CW: mention of genitals, scars)🧵/12

The way modern christianity has been purged of all queerness is frankly baffling. Here you have a god who became a human, lived with twelve other guys, and was gladly bound, whipped and crucified in the name of love. This is a story full of trans, non-het and BSDM affect 2/12🧵

I'm not going to talk more about the biological logic of the incarnation (his single mother being the only chromozome donor) even though this is well discussed in medieval Christian literature. There are many ways in which Christ's body can be (and has been) read as trans

The incarnation itself (and its highly theological explanation in the Chalcedonian body, the official Church's line of how Christ is both human *and* god) follows a trans logic of becoming, transition, and self-fulfillment. God becoming human, a transition of more than gender 4/

This incarnated body of Christ can be the map onto which multiple readings can be held true. A female to male, non-binary, male-to-female (or even *gasp* cis male or cis female) Christ can all coexist onto the same body that is god, human, bread, wine, church, word and lamb 5/