PT Johnston is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the St. Olaf College Religion Department. PT (Patricia) is Roman Catholic and gender non-conforming.
As she says in a blog post: “Everyone’s biological sex is a spectrum, not a binary.”
Yet every cell in the human body marks individuals as either male or female, with males bearing an XY and females an XX chromosome.
Think of the generations that sacrificed to build a school where young men and women could find a Lutheran future!