1/Just a reminder that the Bible is full of trans people. The Hebrew term saris (סָרִיס) is mostly translated into English as eunuch, but in Hebrew is often depicted as a person who was born male but later in life appears female. And the saris is respected. Isaiah 56:4-5 has a blessing for the saris.
2/ "For thus saith the LORD:
Considering the saris that keeps My Sabbaths,
And chooses the things that please Me,
And holds fast by my Covenant:
Even unto them will I give in My house
And within My walls a monument and a memorial,
That shall not be cut off."
3/ If you consider scripture to be holy, and you consider its words to be sacred, and you consider Isaiah to be a true prophet, why do you love trans people less than Isaiah does?
4/ Fun fact: the Talmud recognizes six genders. Cis male, cis female, transfemme, transmasc, intersex with no external genitalia, and intersex with both male and female genitalia.
The word just means eunuch in post-Biblical Hebrew (it's used to refer to an infertile fruit in the Talmud). In pre-Biblical Hebrew it meant minister, and over time acquired the meaning of eunuch because of the common practice of using palace eunuchs to e.g. guard the harem.
The semantic drift between words referring to service, slavery, or in this case maiming and words referring to royal ministries is attested elsewhere - for example, in the other direction, both "chancellor" and "chamberlain" originate in descriptions of menial service (ushers and chamber servants).
