The question is, what sort of people are you sexually attracted to?
From what you say, you sound very young, and it also sounds like you don't have any sexual experience at all. I notice you talk about "thinking", but you say nothing about "feeling", and that makes me wonder if you might even be unsure what sexual attraction and arousal feels like.
I think amg1028 is right: the image in your head of you as half of a "normal" heterosexual couple is the result of cultural conditioning. You've been told this is "normal" in many ways since you were an infant, but now there's a conflict between this image and what you're feeling. It is possible that your attraction to other girls is just a phase, and you'll come to find guys more attractive. It is also possible that you'll never feel sexually attracted to any man. And it's possible that you'll eventually find both men and women sexually attractive.
None of those things are wrong. It would be wrong and not very smart to try to deny your feelings and urges, and attempt to force yourself to be something you are not.
Give yourself time to sort out your own feelings and desires. There's no need to slap a label on yourself. Many people want to believe that human sexuality is an either-or thing, but it's way more fluid and complicated than that.
Well most people say it's a sin to be homosexual or transgender.
Leviticus contains two well known statements about homosexual activity:
You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination. (Leviticus 18:22)
If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them. (Leviticus 20:13)
This is not to say that homosexual desire is the only thing that God did not originally intend. All of our desires have been distorted by sin. But Paul does describe both lesbian and male homosexual behaviour as “unnatural.” Some have argued this refers to what is natural to the people themselves, so that what is in view is heterosexual people engaging in homosexual activity and thereby going against their “natural” orientation. According to this view, Paul is not condemning all homosexual behaviour, but only that which goes against the person’s own sexual inclinations.
For transgender people
A woman is not to wear male clothing, and a man is not to put on a woman's garment, for everyone who does these things is detestable to the LORD your
This really is hard for people like me to accept. Especially if you have severe dysphoria.
All I'm saying is most people don't agree with OP is because most people are Christian. This is what they believe.
First, "most people" are not Christian. Only about a third of the world's population is Christian.
If you believe God wants you to follow the rules in Leviticus, I assume you never work on Saturday (23:3), shave or trim your beard (19:27), allow your hair to become untidy (10:6), remain seated in the presence of the elderly (19:32), mistreat a foreigner (19:33-34), wear polyester-cotton clothing (19:19), or eat fat, chicken, pork, or shellfish (3:17, 11:4-7, 11:10-12).
Most Christians pick and choose which of the rules in Leviticus they need to follow. They use various illogical justifications to explain why they break some rules, but if God is eternal, unchanging, and all-knowing, why did he bother giving the rules to the Jews in the first place?
I'm not surprised it's hard for you to accept the petty nonsense of Leviticus as reflecting the sort of things an all-powerful cosmic deity is really concerned about.
The solution is simple: accept that the Bible is all bullshit.
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The question is, what sort of people are you sexually attracted to?
From what you say, you sound very young, and it also sounds like you don't have any sexual experience at all. I notice you talk about "thinking", but you say nothing about "feeling", and that makes me wonder if you might even be unsure what sexual attraction and arousal feels like.
I think amg1028 is right: the image in your head of you as half of a "normal" heterosexual couple is the result of cultural conditioning. You've been told this is "normal" in many ways since you were an infant, but now there's a conflict between this image and what you're feeling. It is possible that your attraction to other girls is just a phase, and you'll come to find guys more attractive. It is also possible that you'll never feel sexually attracted to any man. And it's possible that you'll eventually find both men and women sexually attractive.
None of those things are wrong. It would be wrong and not very smart to try to deny your feelings and urges, and attempt to force yourself to be something you are not.
Give yourself time to sort out your own feelings and desires. There's no need to slap a label on yourself. Many people want to believe that human sexuality is an either-or thing, but it's way more fluid and complicated than that.
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Well most people say it's a sin to be homosexual or transgender.
Leviticus contains two well known statements about homosexual activity:
You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination. (Leviticus 18:22)
If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them. (Leviticus 20:13)
This is not to say that homosexual desire is the only thing that God did not originally intend. All of our desires have been distorted by sin. But Paul does describe both lesbian and male homosexual behaviour as “unnatural.” Some have argued this refers to what is natural to the people themselves, so that what is in view is heterosexual people engaging in homosexual activity and thereby going against their “natural” orientation. According to this view, Paul is not condemning all homosexual behaviour, but only that which goes against the person’s own sexual inclinations.
For transgender people
A woman is not to wear male clothing, and a man is not to put on a woman's garment, for everyone who does these things is detestable to the LORD your
This really is hard for people like me to accept. Especially if you have severe dysphoria.
All I'm saying is most people don't agree with OP is because most people are Christian. This is what they believe.
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First, "most people" are not Christian. Only about a third of the world's population is Christian.
If you believe God wants you to follow the rules in Leviticus, I assume you never work on Saturday (23:3), shave or trim your beard (19:27), allow your hair to become untidy (10:6), remain seated in the presence of the elderly (19:32), mistreat a foreigner (19:33-34), wear polyester-cotton clothing (19:19), or eat fat, chicken, pork, or shellfish (3:17, 11:4-7, 11:10-12).
Most Christians pick and choose which of the rules in Leviticus they need to follow. They use various illogical justifications to explain why they break some rules, but if God is eternal, unchanging, and all-knowing, why did he bother giving the rules to the Jews in the first place?
I'm not surprised it's hard for you to accept the petty nonsense of Leviticus as reflecting the sort of things an all-powerful cosmic deity is really concerned about.
The solution is simple: accept that the Bible is all bullshit.