This has been the week of Caitlyn Jenner, and with good reason. Ever since Vanity Fair unveiled Caitlyn Jenner to the world, everyone in the news media, on Twitter, and on Facebook have been filled with messages of support and admiration for the former Olympian turned cover model. Everyone, that is, except religious conservatives and Snoop Dogg (gender politics make for strange bedfellows), who have heralded this moment as a “science experiment,” the “end of the world,” and the beginning of a “diabolic” age.
Jenner is a transgender woman, a Republican, and a Christian. At least two of those identifiers have a storied history: gender-bending Christian heroes are nothing new. This means the trans• community has no shortage of religious icons and, put simply, they’re pretty kick-ass.
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