A Transsexual Saint?

Is it a sin to have a serious transsexual wish?  Well, apparently not.  It seems that there was, in fact, a transsexual saint in the Orthodox Christian church that once existed in Cappadocia, now part of Turkey.

This is a fresco depicting St. Onuphrius shown as a naked bearded man with a woman's breasts (and a halo). (Beside him/her, are two more saints: apparently, St. Thomas and St. Basil. This is just to show you that the naked wo/man is really a holy figure, i.e., s/he gets depicted alongside more obviously saint-looking figures.) According to the tour guides, St. Onuphrius was once a woman whose strong desire to be transformed into a man was granted by God (well, at least she grew a beard).  Unfortunately, I couldn't get a reputable online source for this story beyond the Wikipedia article on St. Onuphrius (which cites a "mere" travel blog as source-- a case of circular citation).  Most sources do not make any mention of the transsexuality of St. Onuphrius, but the fresco speaks for itself.

The picture was taken from our trip to the Goreme Open Air Museum in Kapadokya, Turkey. The fresco can be found in the so-called Snake Church, one of 400 cave churches in Kapadokya.