University of Cambridge dean Michael Banner has said that it is a “legitimate” view to believe that Jesus Christ, the son of God, was actually transgender. His claim was made following a disagreement regarding a sermon by a research student at the university, who stated that Christ had a “trans body.”

The sermon was given by junior research fellow Joshua Heath at Trinity College last week, The Telegraph reports. Heath’s supposition was based on his observation that the Renaissance and Medieval paintings showing the wound on Christ’s side looked like female genitalia.

He said that in “the Prayer Book of Bonne of Luxembourg, from the 14th century, this side wound was isolated and ‘takes on a decidedly vaginal appearance.'” Heath finished his sermon by saying “In Christ’s simultaneously masculine and feminine body in these works, if the body of Christ as these works suggest the body of all bodies, then his body is also the trans body.”