Guidance says that not all characters in the Bible are cisgender and some stories have ‘clearly queer’ characters.

According to a campaign group promoting Anglican guidance, the Bible is pro-transgender.

The book claims that not everyone in the Bible was born cisgender and that there are “clear queer characters” in biblical stories.

This argument is based on the treatment of women in the Bible and their participation in activities that are deemed masculine.

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Resources are available on the LGBT Faith UK website. The document is linked to by the statement: “The Bible affirms queer, trans and intersex people.”

The text starts by saying: “Not all of the Bible’s characters are cisgender. Not everyone in the Bible is biologically or anatomically female or male.

The Bible is the best example, as eunuchs are the biblical “ancestors” of transgender people.

In Acts chapter 8, an angel instructs one of the early apostles to seek out an Ethiopian eunuch who is found reading scripture.

Philip, an evangelist delivers to the eunuch the Christian message and then baptizes him.

This shows, according to the guidance, that an eunuch can be “a fully-fledged member [of] the Church without being a male or female”. God called him exactly as he is”.

Samaritan woman hints at ‘intersex nature’

Resources claim that Jesus encountering a Samaritan in John’s book hints at her “intersex” status and that Christ also “affirms” her identity.

The article adds that, while it may be difficult to find queer characters in Scripture, “looking at gender performance in queer characters shows some clearly queer characters.”

Deborah is cited as an example of a female judge who, despite her gender, leads the Israelites in battle. This was “a very male thing for a female to do”.

The same website states that the Bible “affirms homosexuals and lesbians”, and “affirms the bisexual”.

The website LGBTQ Faith UK is a supporter of the lobby group Changing Attitude. It has advocated to the Church of England Bishops for “radical inclusivity” of sexual orientations, gender identities and gender expressions.

The pressure group, founded by Colin Coward a retired Anglican Priest, wants to “radical transform the patriarchal heteronormative white western privileged culture of Church of England”.

The Church wants to be one that embraces lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenders, intersex, and queer people unconditionally.

The group lobbyed bishops heavily as the Church sought consultation on sexuality and gender issues as part of an ongoing process entitled Living in Love and Faith.

The hope was that the responses to this process would encourage bishops to take a more “radical” position ahead of 2023 Synod.

Ann Reddecliffe was a campaigner and representative of Inclusive Churches. She wrote the guide. The educational charity lobby for more inclusion, and hundreds of churches are registered with them.

The material states it was taken from the book, LGBTQ Welcome by Reddecliffe and that this is not an official position of Church.

The Church of England stated in 2018 that the Affirmation of baptism service, which allows individuals to renew their declaration of faith, should adapt to make transgender persons feel more welcomed.

It said the following year that it would accept marriages involving transgender people if both spouses were opposite sexes at the time of their wedding.