Not All Religions Are Against Us.

As I have said many times when we were passing the Connecticut GI/E non-discrimination law some of our strongest supporters were clergy. Don’t paint them with a broad brush.

Senior Christian and Jewish faiths leaders unite to condemn ‘sad’ attacks on trans people and call for an end to hateful rhetoric

Faith leaders from the Church of England and Reform Judaism have come together to support the trans community and condemn the use of the term “transgender ideology”.

Pink News UK

By Lily Wakefield

July 3, 2020

The bishop of Liverpool, Rt Revd Paul Bayes, and Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner, senior rabbi to Reform Judaism, released a joint statement, shared exclusively with PinkNews, in response to an article by The Telegraph headlined “‘Niche’ transgender ideology ‘corrosive’ to society, says report”.

The article covered a report by influential right-wing think tank Civitas which claimed to outline the so-called “corrosive impact of transgender ideology” and cited anti-trans lobbying groups as sources to justify its assertions about trans rights.

Bishop Bayes and Rabbi Janner-Klausner said: “We have noted with sadness the increasing use of the term ‘transgender ideology’.

“As faith leaders, we believe that trans people, like every other person, have every right to be cherished, and protected by society and in the gender in which they choose to live.

“Our faith compels us to speak up for those on the margins, those whom others would seek to silence or misrepresent.

“We believe that the time is long overdue for a softening of the rhetoric in this area of our common life, so that trans people may indeed be seen as people, people who long to live their lives without prejudice or fear.

Over the years that we tried to pass the non-discrimination bill we had dozens of clergy speak on our behalf including a bishop. There are so many more affirming churches than non-affirming churches and even in non-affirming churches many of their members are affirming.