LGBT Faith UK, an Anglican campaign group, has released guidelines insisting that, “the Bible affirms queer people.” The document’s opening statement announces, “Not everyone in the Bible is cisgender. Nor is everyone in the Bible biologically or anatomically male or female.” The document placed a heavy emphasis on eunuchs as the “biblical ancestors” of queer people. The guidance cites Acts 8 when Phillip meets and baptizes an Ethiopian eunuch. The group also released guidelines entitled “The Bible Affirms Gays and Lesbians” and “The Bible Affirms Bisexuals.” The guidelines point to the relationship between Jonathan and David as well as the relationship between Naomi and Ruth as “same-sex relationships told in the Bible.” “The Bible is completely positive about these relationships. There are other examples of LGBTQI people and situations in the Bible,” the group states. The group also states the Samaritan woman may be intersex, although there is no clear evidence to support that claim.

The guidelines have not been officially endorsed by the Church of England. They were written by Ann Reddecliffe, and feature as an extract from her book, LGBTQ Welcome. Calvin Robinson, a former member of the Church of England but who is now a member of the Old Catholic Church, has warned against the church’s increasing liberalism. “The Church of England has become very liberal in terms of divorce, sex outside marriage, same-sex relationships, transgenderism. And every time the Church tries to be more inclusive, it actually becomes more exclusive to Christianity and to Christian values, and more inclusive to worldly values and just further plummets that downward trajectory,” he told The Christian Post.

In 2022, junior research fellow at Trinity College in Cambridge, Joshua Heath, preached a sermon suggesting that Jesus had a “trans body” during an Anglican service. While congregants during the sermon were uncomfortable, the college dean defended the sermon. “For myself, I think that speculation was legitimate, whether or not you or I or anyone else disagrees with the interpretation, says something else about that artistic tradition or resists its application to contemporary questions around transsexualism,” wrote dean Dr. Michael Banner.