{"id":54536,"date":"2016-05-28T22:55:09","date_gmt":"2016-05-28T22:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_among_m-div-_graduates_a_new_crop_of_transgender_students\/"},"modified":"2016-05-28T22:55:09","modified_gmt":"2016-05-28T22:55:09","slug":"rns_among_m-div-_graduates_a_new_crop_of_transgender_students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54536","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Among M.Div. graduates, a new crop of transgender students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like other graduates of Wake Forest University\u2019s School of Divinity, Adam Plant walked onstage earlier this month to accept a diploma and a hug from Dean Gail O\u2019Day.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike them, his journey to the Master of Divinity degree took a significant detour.<\/p>\n<p>Three years ago when he began his studies, Adam was a North Carolina woman with a desire to plumb the intersection of faith and sexuality. By the time of the graduation ceremony, Plant had found acceptance and peace as a man.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cComing out to myself was, I think, one of the hardest things I ever did,\u201d\u009d he said. \u201cI think I was most afraid of being wrong. What if I am crazy? What if this is wrong?\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/religionnews.com\/2016\/05\/26\/among-m-div-graduates-a-new-crop-of-transgender-students\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>I will take comments on this submitted by email only to KSHarmon[at]mindspring[dot]com<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like other graduates of Wake Forest University\u2019s School of Divinity, Adam Plant walked onstage earlier this month to accept a diploma and a hug from Dean Gail O\u2019Day. Unlike them, his journey to the Master of Divinity degree took a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54536\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,175,168,435,184,177,108,167,112,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-seminary-theological-education","category-sexuality","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}