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Sarah Moon is a non-binary individual (does not identify as either man nor woman) who will attend a United Methodist seminary in the fall, with the goal of becoming a pastor in the Methodist tradition. But attending a Methodist seminary doesn't restrict her faith to a traditional Protestant view. Moon's faith is more syncretistic: "I have been focusing on studying gnostic Christianity and different types of neo-paganism lately. Though I don't think I'd ever consider myself gnostic, I like the fact that they tell new stories about familiar Christian figures. I believe that is something I can do in my own faith."Like Kearns and Richardson, Moon views her gender identity as something that draws her closer to God, not apart. "[Gender non-conforming people] can bring unique symbols to the table for understanding the God of the Bible, who at some points has both breasts and a uterus and a penis, who is a mother and a father, who both has no gender, and made men and women (and everyone else) in hir image."Transgender Christians, as diverse as the denominations of their religion, bring themselves to the discussion of what it means to be created by God, to exist as a "new creation," as the Bible says. Austen Hartke, a trans man who recently graduated from Luther Seminary in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, put it this way: "There are as many ways of being transgender as there are of being Christian. Of the percentage of the world population that identifies as transgender, there are people who identify within the gender binary, and outside of that binary, and people who never disclose their trans status, and others for whom it's a defining characteristic. The one thing they have in common is that they don't identify wholly with the gender they were assigned at birth."The acceptance of transgender people within Christianity is still hard to come by, but one thing is consistent: transgender Christians are determined to live their faith, no matter how that task works out in their own relationship to their churches.As Hartke says, "Transgender people bring stories of a God who pursues us relentlessly. A God who wants to know us—the real us—so badly that nothing can get in the way. Trans people's stories are inherently about grace and gospel. I think that cis-normative, hetero-normative churches who don't invite and respond to those stories lose out on a great gift."Follow Dianna E. Anderson on Twitter."There are as many ways of being transgender as there are of being Christian." - Austen Hartke