(PJ Media) On Saturday, an openly gay Leftist rabbi twisted the Bible to support transgender identity, and in so doing he explicitly named eight Bible figures who he suggested were transgender or gender non-conforming.

Responding to a recent statement from the Kansas Republican Party rejecting transgenderism, Jay Michaelson disputed the idea that "God's design for gender" involves accepting biological sex.

"[W]hat about those men and women who deviate from gender roles in the Bible?" Michaelson asked in a Daily Beast article. "The patriarch Jacob, for example, is clearly gendered female in comparison with his twin brother Esau. Esau is hairy, Jacob is smooth; Esau is a hunter, Jacob 'stays in the tent' (which is where women stay) and cooks; Esau is favored by his father, Jacob by his mom. And yet Jacob is the chosen one who becomes Israel, who fathers a nation" (emphasis added).

Yes, this rabbi suggested Jacob was "clearly gendered female." Since Jacob was biologically a male, and even fathered children, this would necessarily make him transgender. Michaelson went on, "Of course, Jacob didn’t go on hormone therapy, but the way the Bible constructs his gender identity makes it very clear that, at least until his transformative nighttime wrestling match, he is gender non-conforming."

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