An ex-evangelical writer, speaker and advocate, Chrissy Stroop is (with Lauren O’Neal) co-editor of the essay anthology ‘Empty the Pews: Stories of Leaving the Church’. A senior correspondent for Religion Dispatches, her work has also appeared in Dame Magazine, Foreign Policy, The Boston Globe, Playboy, Political Research Associates and other outlets, including peer-reviewed academic journals. Stroop has a PhD in modern Russian history from Stanford University, and is a senior research associate with the University of Innsbruck’s Postsecular Conflicts project. In 2019, she came out as a transgender woman and began her journey of medical transition. She lives in Portland, Oregon, US.
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionOn Thanksgiving’s 400th anniversary, we must change the way we celebrateIn a period of rising nationalism, teaching American schoolchildren to play parts in an imperialist and whitewashed...
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionThe Christian Right is why the US won’t deliver on climate changeAmerican democracy is in crisis. That’s why the US can’t be counted on to act responsibly on the world stage with...
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionWhy, as an American transgender woman, I don’t feel it’s safe to visit the UKThe BBC prides itself on its impartiality. But its new podcast about Stonewall is another example of the UK media’s...
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionWhy I created the hashtag #ExposeChristianSchoolsPrivate Christian schools in the US take public money to push a ‘religion-centred, anti-science, anti-multicultural...
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionAn open letter to the WHO: This World Mental Health Day, don’t forget trans peopleHealthcare access for LGBTIQ communities in the US is under threat from the conservative Right. The WHO should do more
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Published in: 50.50: Opinion9/11 added ‘war on terror’ to US Christian Right’s racist agendaWhite right-wing evangelical Christians were fighting racist culture wars long before the terrorist attacks on the...