Our discomfort with difference can lead us to misdiagnose and mistreat human variation as illness or fallenness.40 But there is another way to think about difference. The early church father Augustine also wrestled with whether to diagnose rare phenomena as fallen or God-created. In the case of intersex people, he concluded they are not a product of the fall.41 God intentionally created a sexual minority outside the binary. In City of God he writes: For God is the Creator of all things: He Himself knows where and when anything should be, or should have been, created; and He knows how to weave
...more
