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You're right that the southern baptist convention happened and had doctrine over slavery - which they have repented and apologised for. The mainstream Catholic Protestant churches generally haven't been in favour of it as far as I know.
The LGBTQ issue is different - The Bible full on anathematises homosexuality, for example in 1 Corinthians 6:9, or Romans 1, stating that they "will not inherit the Kingdom of heaven" and categorises them with adulterers, idolaters, greedy, thieves, etc. St Paul asks Philemon to free Onesimus and doesn't - so such a condemnation was never issued against abolitionists.
Again, the transgender issue isn't full-on anathematised, except for perhaps an old law on cross-dressing which doesn't really hold much water due to it being OT in it's context. So I wouldn't say that such a thing would not be accepted, I think I'll depend on how much scientific and societal study of the subject will continue to evolve. I don't even know if it's possible to categorise an asexual/chaste transgender person as sinful (the reason I put that qualifier in would be if we can't know whether or not a trans woman is a woman theologically speaking, then her engaging with a man could be homosexuality, but likewise if she is, then her engaging with a woman can be of the same). I wouldn't really consider them to be living a life of sin as it's not specifically addressed nor condemned.
When Jesus was talking about Eunuchs, it was moreso celibacy than literally cutting off your genitals. And He doesn't command people to, he moreso asks for respect for those who do. This was after He was talking about marriage.
Oh, they said sorry. Isn't that nice of them. They still did it at the time. There were plenty of verses for them to pull support from.
I'm not going to defend the Southern Baptist Convention, lol. But it is worth noting that slavery had existed since civilisations have existed - likely before the first words of The Torah were ever penned. Despite it taking almost two millenia, Christianity was the force that generally stopped it around the time it gained the most influence, as well as the global reach of colonial empires, even if they were just acting to appease the voters back home - although it still exists underground.
It's quite silly to blame someone for partaking in a practice they didn't start, but eventually stopped.
If anything, you could probably argue that if Christianity didn't have the influence that it had, there'll still be slaves in our society today.
Here's the issue about that though. The Bible doesn't have a single syllable condemning slavery. It just wasn't part of the social structure of the millennia to do so. Instead, there are rules and laws governing slavery and how to do slavery better