Jesus was portrayed as a transgender woman in a performance in an Anglican church yesterday. The Bishop of Manchester, David Walker, has not blocked the play entitled 'The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven'. Award-winning playwright Jo Clifford, a Christian who is herself transgender, depicts Jesus retelling biblical stories with a "different slant".
 
"The play imagines a transgender Jesus coming back to the world today," Clifford said. "She pitches a sermon and tells a few very familiar gospel stories. She has a communion, shares bread and wine with the audience, which is really a gesture of solidarity in the face of death and she gives a blessing."