“I’ve never fully been myself, I’ve always been living a lie.”
After coming out as transgender, H. Adam Ackley was asked to step down from his teaching position of nearly 15 years at Azusa Pacific University.
The 47-year-old former head of the theology department is currently in his third of a five-year contract.
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APU is a private evangelical Christian university outside Los Angeles.
Ackley will not stay on staff to finish out the academic year.
He told Religious News Service that the university said it will continue to pay him through the academic year — the university wants other professors to take over his classes.
Ackley stated that he didn't get the sense the individuals with whom he was speaking had a "theological problem with transgender identity."
Rather, he believes that the decision had to do with "their concern that other people, such as donors, parents, and churches connected to the university would have problems understanding transgender identity."
