Ah yes, Jesus, Son of God, carpenter & secret sommelier.
It’s nothing new, the ZOMG LOOK AT JESUS DOING A WOMAN THING! - but to be honest, if people are going to clutch at Jesus’ subversion of gender norms, I prefer this 2016 effort that argues for the ordination of women in the Catholic Church because He’d overturn the patriarchy like He flipped the traders’ tables in the Temple…
Jesus is performing a wholly symbolic expression of humility - the only trans is that this can be counted into the pattern of transgressions that led to His eventual execution.
This sort of ahistorical imposition* is… embarrassing. It is very difficult & unfortunate (to say the least) that some denominations utterly reject the very concept of being transgender. People of faith who are trans should not feel they have to choose one over the other; & it is lovely if there are congregations who actively seek to make trans members feel welcomed. Trying to do it by claiming Jesus is trans is surely only going to backfire though - & I’m sure most transgender Peoples Of The Book would be mortified at the combination of what many would consider a literally diabolical misinterpretation of Scripture & a quite glib & shallow conceptualisation of “transgendering”.
- (obviously in the case of Jesus I am using ahistorical more broadly ie “were this to have happened in this way at that time”; but leaving aside examination of question of Jesus’ divinity - or indeed existence, for those who consider the evidence for that inadequate)