Church Discovers Chorister Was Trans Woman After Death- GlamTush

A church discovered that a chorister was a trans woman after his death.

Glamtush reports that members of St. John’s Catholic Church Rumuolumeni for Iwofe, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, recently got to know that the woman whom they had known to be one of their singers in the church was actually a man, BBC Pidgin reports.

This online platform understands that Emmanuella Adaolisa was one of the Choristers in the catholic Church until he was involved in a road accident on January 31, while returning from a church programme.

According to reports, Emmanuella is a pharmacist graduate of the University of Port Harcourt and identified as a trans woman. However, members of her church were not aware.

A trans woman is a person who was registered as male at birth but who lives and identifies as a woman; a transgender woman.

Emmanuella reportedly fell from the tricycle he boarded in Port Harcourt and was seriously injured on his face which caused him to bleed excessively. His church members were contacted about the incident and they came to the scene and rushed him to the hospital.

Unfortunately, Emmanuella was confirmed Dead On Arrival (DOA) at the Military Hospital along Aba road after he was rejected by the first hospital he was taken to. Following Emmanuella’s death, the Church took his corpse to the mortuary where they filled in his information which also included his gender, which was filled in as “female”.

While the Church members were about to leave the mortuary, the mortuary attendant reportedly called their attention to what they observed after they removed Emmanuella’s cloth. The mortuary attendant discovered that he wore four boxers. After the boxers were removed, it was discovered that she was trans woman. The church leadership, who were also present at the mortuary, were allowed to see and confirm that Emmanuella was a male.

According to some parishioners who spoke with BBC Pidgin, Emmanuella joined St. John’s Catholic Church, Rumuolumeni sometime in October 2022 and she has been active in the choir as a soprano singer.

She also introduced her fiancé to the parish authorities.

“We just concluded our 21 days of fasting and prayers with five days spiritual retreat which ended on January 31. On the final day, the priest prayed that God should expose any person that will bring shame to the catholic church and we all said amen. We never knew that anything bad will happen on that day. He was involved in the accident when he was returning from the programme that evening,” one of the church members told BBC Pidgin.