If being trans or trans-supportive is considered an ideology, wouldn't we be able to gain legal protection under the law if we were to form a church?

I'm a huge fan of using people's arguments against them and I just had someone call my "belief" in being trans, a *religion*. So I immediately thought, wait, if they say it's a religion, hey, religions have protections under federal law. Let's go!

Now, I know absolutely jack all about such things and I assume others have far more knowledge about it.

What do you say? Is this feasible? Is it a way for us to fight back and protect ourselves and the trans kids that come after us?