Pat Robertson: ‘No Sin Associated with’ Sex-Change Operation

Ben Johnson
LifeSiteNews
July 31, 2013

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Pat Robertson told the audience of the 700 Club that there is “no sin associated” with having one’s genitals surgically removed and receiving hormone treatments in order to live as a member of the opposite sex.

“I work with two people who have decided they are females,” said a writer named David during the Monday episode of the long-running Christian program’s question-and-answer session, “Bring It On.” He asked, “Is it wrong to refer to them as females since they have had their gender status changes in the eyes of the law?”

Robertson began by saying, “I don’t understand all that.”

But he proceeded to answer, “I think there are men who are in a woman’s body. It’s very rare, but it’s true.”

The 83-year-old evangelical said a sex-change operation is “a very permanent thing, believe me, when you have certain body parts amputated and you have shot up with various kinds of hormones.”

“I don’t think there’s any sin associated with that,” he concluded. “I don’t condemn somebody for doing that.”

Robertson told the program’s estimated one million viewers that he would “question the validity” of a non-operative transgender person, because “you don’t count somebody as female unless they really are.”

He concluded by saying that if someone has had such a surgery, “It’s not for you to decide or to judge” about the person’s motives.

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