{"id":1650,"date":"2012-10-11T08:02:20","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T08:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tgr.net.au\/wp\/forums\/discussion\/abc-rn-i-am-claire-my-transgender-spiritual-diaryqu"},"modified":"2012-10-11T08:02:20","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T08:02:20","slug":"abc-rn-i-am-claire-my-transgender-spiritual-diaryqu","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/tgr.net.au\/wp\/forums\/discussion\/abc-rn-i-am-claire-my-transgender-spiritual-diaryqu","title":{"rendered":"ABC RN: &#8220;I Am Claire: My Transgender Spiritual Diary&#038;qu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week the ABC Radio National program \"The Spirit of Things\" aired a story titled \"I Am Claire: My Transgender Spiritual Diary\".<br \/>\nFor those of us who have struggled with reconciling our spirituality and gender, this broadcast is essential listening. Hopefully it also has some positive effect in educating people about the struggles transgender individuals go through.<\/p>\n<p>The following is the introduction to this broadcast on the ABC website:<br \/>\n<i>\"Husband, Father and Girlfriend, Claire is also someone who spent many years together with his wife in the Anglican Church as a youth worker and assistant pastor.<br \/>\nHis inner girl lived in shame and was not only rejected by the Church but also, he believed, by God, until a pastor had a different message for him.<br \/>\nSince then, Claire, who is also a serious surfer and a worker in child protection, has enjoyed acceptance by a loving God, his family and him\/herself.<br \/>\nClaire tells Rachael where he now finds God and why his wife is so important to him\/her.\" <\/i><\/p>\n<p>The full program can be downloaded at the following link:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/radionational\/programs\/spiritofthings\/i-am-claire3a-a-transgender-spiritual-diary\/4280078\" class=\"bbcode_url\">http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/radionational\/programs\/spiritofthings\/i-am-claire3a-a-transgender-spiritual-diary\/4280078<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","topic-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1650","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tgr.net.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/1650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tgr.net.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tgr.net.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tgr.net.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/1650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tgr.net.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tgr.net.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic-tag?post=1650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}