What to think about swapping sexes

Sharon James  |  Reviews
Date posted:  1 Jan 2017
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What to think about swapping sexes

TRANSGENDER
By
Vaughan Roberts
The Good Book Company. 75 pages. £2.99
ISBN 978 1 784 981 952

This autumn the BBC came under fire for airing Just A Girl on the CBBC website, in which an 11-year-old boy identified as a girl. Children as young as six were being presented with a normalised and glamorised impression of gender transition. Seemingly overnight, the ‘right’ to ‘change sex’ is being promoted in schools and the media.

In this cultural context, Vaughan Roberts, minister of a large church attended by many students, saw the urgent need of an accessible book outlining a biblical response. He is engagingly honest about the fact that this little (75 page) book is only a ‘starting point’. He is also up-front about its limitations. The purpose is pastoral. It does not address wider political and cultural challenges.

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