Kathyungar, this is why I like Medium. You made me think and re-read my own post. Your comment identifies a real issue: to speak of Jesus as gender-fluid is a bit of an anachronism. Our understanding of gender is shaped by social norms that are hard to know accurately at such an historical and cultural remove. Point taken. I think the title was meant to be provokative and playful — to help us appreciate how Jesus did violate at least some powerful gender norms of his time. But I think you may have under-appreciated my point about Jesus’ identification with Sophia/Lady Wisdom, which is generally under-appreciated. Daniel Boyarin’s scholarship in Borderlines is quite compelling on this point. And then there’s issue of how people over the ages have experienced Jesus, such as the experience of Jesus that led to the Russian icon used to illustrate this post, and the prayer to Jesus by Margueritte of Oingt, “Oh Jesus, you are my mother!” So yes, the thesis of the post suffers from anachronism — -using modern terms to describe an historical figure in a period when those terms were not used. Especially dicey when the terms refer to phenomena that are profoundly socially constructed. But I do think the evidence to support my admittedly anachronistic thesis is more than just the way Jesus violated a couple of gender norms of his time. Thanks for reading, thanks for commenting, thanks making me think.