How an Evangelical pastor became an unlikely ally to his trans daughter

How an Evangelical pastor became an unlikely ally to his trans daughter

“Why can’t you f*cking talk to me?” Beatrice Cox screamed at her father. “Why can’t you look me in the eye? Why can’t you call me by my name?”  It was 2021, and Danny Cox remembers looking at his child, then 22, and feeling a profound confusion. Growing up in the Catholic Church and eventually becoming an Evangelical pastor, he remembered what he had been encouraged by different faith communities to believe about transgender people: mentally dis…