Nicholas Meriwether, a professor at Shawnee State University, challenged his university’s policy that required faculty to use students’ preferred pronouns. This is spelled out with great clarity in the recent decision in Meriwether v. They will not accept a person’s stated gender identity, and they will not accept the possibility that there are any nonbinary people. It is therefore unsurprising that some people of faith will treat others according to their assigned sex at birth and will consider requiring them to acknowledge another’s gender identity to either be untruthful and/or unfaithful. To them, biological sex is divinely ordained and assigned to each person according to divine will. This serves a reproductive purpose, and, for many, also differentiates the roles that people are expected to play in the world.
Certain people see humanity as having been created by a divine being who specifically created humans as male and as female.
The core basis for many of the faith-based objections to transgender and nonbinary acceptance comes from deeply ingrained theologically grounded worldviews. Direct guidance from holy texts does not exist. This is not surprising, because although transgender people have existed throughout time, access to viable medical treatments to modify the human body to conform anatomy and physiology to a person’s gender identity only developed over the past century or so. Few religious traditions have clearly stated positions on the place of transgender people either in their institutions or society at large, and most of those have been crafted in the past few decades.
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