Ah yes, I remember watching a short snippet of Rachel's ponderings on the link between the crucifixion of Jesus and trans issues the other day, when learning more about Rachel after the Moral Maze.
I'm guessing this'll give a taster of the Lent talk:
This section starts from about 1.40 onwards
I think that what might be made availabe is actually a radical Christian opportunity to rethink once again what it means to be embodied, what it means to be gendered, what it means to be sexed, because it seems to me that what it seems tobe one of the constant problems in the narratives and the discourses of our current church is that it's based on a rather crude presumption on what it is to be a human being, that one is either male or female, man or woman, and that the full expression of masculinity or femininity [interestingly, Rachel puts this word in air quotes] is to be found in a kind of life-long sexually-centered union
There is surely this extraordinary queering of the body that goes on in Jesus's faithfulness that leads to the risen Christ. That risen Christ is the one whose body is transformed. The body that is pushed out of the world, that is broken, that is exposed, that is treated as secondary, and second class, is the subject of the world's violence, is transformed in such a way that that body still bears the marks of woundedness, of exclusion, of loss, of being pushed out of the world
But this transformed body is not in any sense simply the body of a first century Jewish man any more. Without trans voices, without lesbian voices, without bi voices, without intersexuals, and of course without gay voices, there is simply no way forward.
That dynamic between Christ on the cross, saying I am thirsty, and that visceral bodily thirst that those of us who are longing for justice and change have, and that sense of uniting our voices.... film fades out