Errrr....Nicola Jane, where exactly does Christianity teach that God is both Male and Female?
And I don't entirely agree with your second comment... it needs clarifying, because it depends on the circumstance. Are you talking about transexuals? Homosexuals? Cross-dressers? Physicality is not under discussion here. it's attitude....
And this is the big problem with 'God' isn't it?
Everybody has expressed a different ideology of what they perceive God to be. But everyone here, has expressed a slightly different perception.
This is because the goalposts are constantly being shifted.... Had anyone given the opinion in a church or Christian community, even 20 years ago, that they considered God to be of an indeterminate gender, they'd have been shouted out of your church and denounced for Blasphemy. This god is a S/He, is a relatively recent ideology, and it seems it has been purely disseminated to keep the feminists happy....
Strictly speaking, God is completely genderless.
Biblically, we've always been fed the idea of God as a male entity, because men have been in charge of theological doctrine, dogma and Religious instituition, for centuries. So it's natural that any deity in charge, would reflect whoever was socially in charge, too.... it follows.
An all-powerful, omnipotent deity transcends gender, so referring to the Godhead as a female is completely wrong. But then again, to be fair, it's equally wrong to determine that it's "He", too.
But we need to label things. we need to give ourselves an image, something to hold on to... something mentally accessible and tangible.
And that's where belief in God starts falling apart. because with nothing to cling to, where does the rest of it stand?
The answer is, in our heads.
That's the only place God has any form. And because the only place God can exist, with any credibility, is in our heads, this is why we need to question every aspect of our faith.
because Seeing God in one way or the other, is playing with our own minds.