'One of the things that has kept with my ministry ever since is that transition and coming out can and should be a spiritual experience.'
A priest from Yorkshire has spoken out about their journey to discovering their gender identity alongside faith.
Bingo, from West Yorkshire, grew up in a "strongly religious" household and said they were raised to believe that acting on being gay was "sinful". But the parent-of-three has been on a 15-year journey that included meeting other LGBTQ+ Christians that has completely changed their previously 'very traditional and conservative' outlook on life, the Liverpool Echo reports.Bingo told the Echo: "My views used to be very traditional and very conservative certainly.
They said: “It was a lot harder than I thought having come out to myself to then remain in the closet. There were definitely lots of times before when I kind of questioned my identity but growing up in a more conservative form of Christianity meant that it was just so far beyond my imagination. But one evening, Bingo was writing an essay about God's creation of the earth when they had an epiphany. They explained how Genesis 1:27 uses the terms 'from maleness to femaleness', rather than men and women.
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