Christina Beardsley

Christina Beardsley is a Church of England priest and a Visiting Scholar at Sarum College. Tina has been a parish priest, a healthcare chaplain and a lecturer in healthcare chaplaincy. She was the first transgender trustee of Changing Attitude, England (2007–14) and continues to work for the full inclusion of LGBTI+ people in the Church of England. She is the author of Unutterable Love: the Passionate Life and Preaching of F. W. Robertson (2009), and has co-edited/authored a trilogy of books about trans people and the church: This is my Body: Hearing the Theology of Transgender Christians (2016); Transfaith: A Transgender Pastoral Resource (2018); and Trans Affirming Churches: How to Celebrate Gender-variant People and their Loved Ones (2020). Now retired, she assists in London parishes, north and south of the Thames, and continues to write and research.