"'This is the same old story,' [James Whitehead] says. 'The kind of transition that trans people are talking about is very similar to the journey of faith through darkness and desert that people have been making for thousands of years.' He has found, in his teaching and writing, that when he describes trans experience to Catholics in terms of a spiritual journey, a light goes on, and they get it." -- from "A nun's secret ministry brings hope to the transgender community" by Nathan Schneider, 2014-03-02, Al Jazeera America
[Today is the annual Transgender Day of Visibility ( Facebook, Wikipedia).]