Is there anything inherently wrong with being friends with a trans woman

[teamjesusnumber31]

She is very vocally pro-Pride and last time I knew she considered herself trans but at one point said she doesn’t know her gender. All that said, she is really nice to me and I never agree or affirm her beliefs because they never come up. We live states away and text.

 

[EmilyAlexandra]

I don’t think it’s inherently wrong to be friends with anyone. There are people I would choose not to be friends with, but not because it is “inherently wrong”, as you put it. Jesus ate with tax-collectors and sinners, he told the parable of the master who sent his servants into the highways and the byways to bring people to his feast, he allowed his garment to be touched by a woman who was unclean due to bleeding, he asked for water from the Samaritan woman at the well.

 

[Beryllos]

Sounds like you are treating her like a human being, a friend, and maybe a sister, all of which is very good.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

Since this doesn’t sound like a romantic relationship (which could be problematic), but just a platonic friendship, and since it doesn’t sound like she’s trying to lead you away from the Church or convince you to become trans or any of that, I see no issue with being friends.

I’ve been friendly with a number of trans people. They’re just people. I didn’t pick them out for friends because they were trans, we just had other interests in common such as music and art.

 

[TomH1]

Nothing wrong with being her friend. Even if people’s life choices are not perfect or do not match what we believe we are still to treat them as fellow humans and not to mistreat or harm them. So there is nothing wrong with being her friend.