Trans Episcopal

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"TDOR offers an opportunity for transgender allies, accomplices, and co-conspirators...To learn about local legislation and policies in your area and how they affect trans adults and youth... To stand side by side with us in our grief, fear, and anger..." transepiscopal.org/blog/transgend…

“The political rhetoric has left us for dead, treating us as things and not people. It is indeed God who raises Lazarus from the dead, but humans who are given the task of rolling away the stone and unbinding him ….” ✨new✨ Election Day blog post: transepiscopal.org/blog/take-away…

“On this election eve, I’ve got a lot on my heart,” the Rev. Cameron Partridge said during the webinar. “I’m thinking about the use of trans people for legislative and political gain-the distorting, hateful use.” episcopalnewsservice.org/2024/11/05/chu…

The TransEpiscopal community mourns the loss and celebrates the life and witness of one of our own: the Rev. Gari Green. Gari died on Thursday, July 25th after a brief illness, lovingly surrounded by her family in Kenosha, Wisconsin. transepiscopal.org/blog/rememberi…

“There are better ways to protect those with privilege than by putting those who are already vulnerable at higher risk.” The 50th anniversary of the Philadelphia Eleven, the Port St. Lucie conscience clause, and the new conscience clause passed by #GC81: transepiscopal.org/blog/celebrati…

We offer profound thanks to Presiding Bishop-Elect Sean Rowe for his clear, direct, prayerful, loving statement of solidarity with the trans community in the wake of a terrible murder in his diocese. **content warning: details of horrific violence** episcopalnewsservice.org/2024/07/11/pre…

Today marks one year since the death of our beloved member & friend, Iain Stanford. We have posted an interview—almost spiritual memoir—recorded by Cameron Partridge with Iain five days before he died. Love abides. vimeo.com/981787068

In today's #gc81 ISSUES: — Important Distinctions: Revising Canons on Membership (A108) — Close Guantánamo Bay Detention Facility (D028) — A Voice from the Diocese of Florida on the Communion Across Difference Resolutions (A091, A092, A094) mailchi.mp/cba093d9a891/g…

As discussion continues about the “communion across difference” resolutions such as A091 and A092, we offer this opinion from someone who has been affected by these issues in the Diocese of Florida. #gc81 transepiscopal.org/blog/a-voice-f…

@FrJody Thank you, Jody, and especially thank you to Mtr. Kelli for this thoughtful response. Here is a response to the response, from someone in Dio Florida, which has held up as an example in a way with which some there disagree. #gc81 transepiscopal.org/blog/a-voice-f…

The Consultation announces our endorsement for the election of The Rev. Ruth Meyers, PhD, to be the next Vice President of the House of Deputies. #gc81

@samjchristopher — of people who are already hearing these arguments as reasons they can’t be licensed, hired, deployed, etc. Whether to perform a marriage of course remains an individual cleric’s decision. #gc81 More in depth here: mailchi.mp/1e3f4065fb57/g…

@samjchristopher — by setting up a false equivalency between those who feel discriminated against because of what they believe theologically and those who in fact are discriminated against because of who they are. We urge great care re dismantling these protections. We know — #gc81

Commentary on A072 (expanding the BCP) and A091, A092, plus A094 (called Communion Across Difference) all important issues for TransEpiscopal at #GC81 We support A072 We do not support A091, A092, A094 Please read more in depth as to why —

As we head into the 4th Legislative Day of #GC81 and all eyes are on Christ Church Cathedral where our bishops will be electing a new presiding bishop for our church, let us not forget the elections happening in the HoD today! Here are our endorsements: 1/