Dharmaguptaka Vinaya and ordination of gay people

[Gabriel_L]

Hi, this is what I found by searching for the term within this forum :

Through the Yellow Gate: Ordination of Gender-Nonconforming People in the Buddhist Vinaya

Four months ago I started looking into the possibilities for ordination for transgender and intersex people because there seems to be much confusion around this. It was especially my friends Ayya Yeshe and Venerable @Akaliko who were the impetus for me doing this and for myself it became a spiritual journey as well. You can download the paper here: YellowGate.pdf (1.7 MB) Transgender and intersex people, and at times other LGBTIQA+ people, have been excluded from ordination as a Buddhist mona…