There are affirming religions out there that support us and one of them has a trans decon.
The United Methodist Church has appointed a transgender deaconI am friends with two trans clergy one is with the MCC church and the other is an Episcopal priest (she is the parish priest) and I am also friends with a number of lay trans people who are very active in their churches.
By Julie Zauzmer
June 7, 2017
The bishop spoke the traditional words as she placed her hands on the new deacon named M with just a slight difference from the way those words have always been spoken before.
“Pour out your Holy Spirit upon M,” the bishop said. “Send them now to proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ, to announce the reign of God and to equip the church for ministry.”
Not “send him now” or “send her now.” “Send them now.”
That’s what M Barclay has been working for 12 years to finally hear.
Barclay, a transgender person who identifies as neither male nor female and thus uses the pronoun “they,” was commissioned on Sunday as the first non-binary member of the clergy in the United Methodist Church.
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