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Stand With Us: Defending the Dignity of Trans, Non-Binary, and Two Spirit People

1/27/2025

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In the wake of the executive orders being released this week and last targeting our community, including yesterday’s order seeking to restrict access to gender affirming care for anyone under the age of nineteen, we want to highlight the January 13th webinar "Building a Fighting Church, Part 1: Defending the Dignity of Trans, Non-binary, and Two-Spirit People." This webinar was organized by the Episcopal Church’s Gender Justice Officer Aaron Scott, and co-sponsored by TransEpiscopal. Over 400 people attended via Zoom, with another three hundred registered to attend. 

Video of the webinar can be viewed here, and we highly recommend watching all of it. 

In one section of the webinar, one of our steering committee members, the Rev. Dr. Cameron Partridge, spoke on anchoring our commitment to trans justice in our Episcopal identity. His remarks, shared below, underscore the commitments the Episcopal Church has made over the past fifteen plus years at its highest level – the General Convention – to support and stand with trans, non-binary, and Two Spirit people, a stance that directly opposes what has been unfolding this week.
 
We share the webinar link and these remarks as an urgent call to stand with our community. Please watch this space for opportunities to connect and get involved with TransEpiscopal and other supportive groups around the church as we respond to all that is unfolding. Please particularly stay tuned for the Building a Fighting Church Part 2 webinar, focused on reproductive justice, with huge thanks to Aaron Scott for his leadership!

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This is a time of urgency and precarity for all of us who are trans, non-binary, and/or Two Spirit; and for all of us who are connected to this community: spouses and partners, parents, siblings, friends, community members. We’ve heard about our call to be a Fighting Church from Canon Carla Robinson. I want to underline that call for us as Christians and as Episcopalians. Many of us reaffirmed our Baptismal Covenant yesterday, as we celebrated the First Sunday after the Epiphany, traditionally centered on the baptism of Jesus. Among the promises we reaffirmed was our call to persevere in resisting evil, to seek and serve Christ in all persons, and to strive for justice and peace, respecting the dignity of every human being.

This is a moment in which the basic dignity of trans, non-binary, and Two-Spirit people is being widely disrespected, undermined, and demeaned for political gain. Such action is happening at local levels in the form of schoolboard actions to ban particular books or flags, or to prevent trans people in general and trans girls in particular from accessing sports teams or other gender specific activities and spaces. This disrespect is happening at state levels with bans or attempts to ban access to gender affirming care, as well as sports bans.And it is happening at the federal level, as we just saw in the massive money spent on transphobic, transmisogynistic commercials aired particularly during sporting events this election season. This is part of a widespread pattern of anti-trans violence intersecting with racism, classism and sexism. This pattern is unfolding in so-called blue states as well as red states. It is happening in my own state of California. This avalanche of demeaning anti-trans activity has an impact that is serious and widespread. Not only on our laws, our spaces, the activities we may be barred from participating in, our basic safety and well-being. But there is also a spiritual danger of this pattern seeping into our hearts, of lowering the horizon of our expectations; squelching what we imagine is possible for our living and thriving. I think this is especially the case for the youngest trans, non-binary and two-spirit people among us, who hear of the violent rhetoric second hand if they haven’t already experienced it firsthand, and may feel the horizons of their own lives being foreclosed, even if they are in supportive families and friend groups. As we persevere in resisting this life-limiting evil, trans, non-binary, and Two-Spirit people are counting on the Episcopal Church to honor its commitment to our community to respect not only our basic dignity but our presence, our creativity, our lay and ordained leadership, and our full flourishing as members of Christ’s body in this church we love.

The Episcopal Church has been on an intentional path to fully embrace, uplift, and honor the gifts of trans, non-binary and Two Spirit people for well over fifteen years now. At the churchwide level we began specifically affirming trans people in 2009 when the General Convention passed legislation encouraging churches to create flexible and expansive language church forms, allowing people to share their pronouns and their names. We went on record supporting a fully trans inclusive version of what came to be called the Equality Act – then the Employment Non-Discrimination Act – as well as state and local nondiscrimination legislation efforts. We went on in 2012 to add gender identity and expression to our own non-discrimination canons for lay and ordained leadership (first access to the ordination process, and then in 2018 expanded to employment and deployment opportunities) and underlined in 2022 that these canons include non-binary people. We named the epidemic of the bullying of young people on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity and called upon one another to support the LGBTQIA youth among us. In 2022 we – the General Convention – specifically called upon the Episcopal Church to “advocate for access to gender affirming care in all forms (social, medical, or any other) and at all ages as part of our Baptismal call to ‘respect the dignity of every human being.’” We came out in official opposition to so-called “conversion therapy” in 2015.  We called for and later incorporated into the Book of Occasional Services a Rite for changing one’s name. And to support the journey of this call to fully embrace our community, we have called for and are increasingly taking up formation programs so that congregations, dioceses, and wider groupings of the church, can learn more about how to be supportive and actively affirming. (A comprehensive list of the Episcopal Church policy positions I have been describing is on TransEpiscopal’s website.)

Looking through the work our church has been engaging over these last fifteen plus years, the Episcopal church at the highest levels of its collective authority has a very clear, unambiguous stance of support for trans, non-binary, and Two Spirit people. That stance is founded upon a theology of the human person that is comprehensive, not complementarian or rigidly binary in its conception of gender; that honors the complexity of the human within the wide-ranging beauty of God’s creation; that makes space for the discernment of gender identity and the unfolding of its expression in various cultures and contexts. We have committed as a Church to the ongoing work of equipping ourselves to answer our call to respect the dignity of this community in our congregational life, and in the public square. Now more than ever, it is vital that we step forward and into this work.
 
Closing Prayer
Holy One, we give you thanks for this community, for its commitment, its questions, its energy and urgency. Fire our hearts as we leave this space, that we may take our learnings and connections out into our communities, into the world, strengthened by God’s transforming love. Amen.
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Remembering the Reverend Gari Green

8/5/2024

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The TransEpiscopal community mourns the loss and celebrates the life and witness of one of our own: the Reverend Gari Green. Gari died on Thursday, July 25th after a brief illness, lovingly surrounded by her family in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Gari’s family has written a beautiful obituary that you can read here. A Memorial Mass of the Resurrection for Gari will be held at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in Kenosha, Wisconsin this Thursday, August 9 at 11:00 a.m. 

Ordained to the priesthood in 1986, and having served several congregations in what is now the Episcopal Diocese of Wisconsin, Gari was one of the founding members of TransEpiscopal. When we were first gathering as a community through a Yahoo listserve in early 2005, she was one of the very few ordained, openly trans Episcopal clergy we knew. Gari shared with us that not long before Christmas in 1996, just as she was coming to terms with her gender, she had the traumatic experience of being outed as trans in the parish where she was then serving as rector. Disgruntled members of the parish secretly followed her to a trans support group meeting on a Saturday night and then confronted her before church the following morning, threatening to tell the bishop if she didn’t. Not long after, the bishop and the congregation met and decided Gari had to leave. The bishop told her she would likely never work in the church again. 

But, by God, she did.

In 1997, in addition to a fulltime secular job she had now also begun, Gari began serving as a supply priest at a small parish in Kenosha, which at that point had not had regular ordained leadership for a year. Several weeks into her time there, leaders asked if she would consider becoming their priest on a regular basis. Did they know something of her backstory, Gari wanted to make sure. You mean, that you’re transgender? Yes, we know. You’re our priest. Just come and be with us, they basically replied. She became their priest in charge, staying until she retired in 2015. 

When TransEpiscopal was accepted into The Consultation in 2007, Gari was one of our representatives to that group. Two years later she was part of our contingent at the 76th General Convention in Anaheim, the first time we collectively advocated for resolutions supporting trans and nonbinary people within and outside the Episcopal Church. She helped lead a Trans 101 at that convention (which inspired Louise Brooks to create the Voices of Witness: Out of the Box film in 2012), testified at legislative hearings, met with people at our booth in the exhibit hall, and concelebrated the first-ever TransEpiscopal Eucharist. She also wrote exuberantly for our blog during that convention at which several trans-supporting resolutions were passed.

One such post shared her legislative testimony on a resolution to add trans-inclusive non-discrimination language to the ministry canon (2009-C061 which ultimately passed in 2012):

“Good evening. I am a priest of the Diocese of Milwaukee ordained for 23 years. I am also a trans woman and began dealing with my issues of gender roughly 20 years ago. I speak in favor of resolution C0[6]1.
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I could say the addition of these words are a matter of justice, which they are. I could say these words are standard ‘boiler plate’ nondiscrimination language used frequently by enlightened corporate entities across this country. I could even legitimately say the addition of these words to the Canons are ‘the Gospel.’ But I am not going to say any of these things, except in passing. I would rather place a more personal face on this issue. 

As I worked through the challenging gift of being differently gendered and accepting myself as such, I grew in a personal sense of wholeness. As I grew in that personal sense of wholeness, I became more confirmed in my call to priesthood. What's more, my exercise of that call grew in both depth and fullness. I give thanks for the difficult challenge of coming to a place of peace with my differently gendered self and the strengthening of my sense of priestly vocation that resulted from the work I did. 

I would urge the adoption of this language for all the reasons noted above so that the people who follow me into the ordained ministry of this Church do not have any undue barriers in their journey to wholeness of person and the exercise of their ministries in this part of Christ's Body.”

Gari’s expression of deepened call through challenge resounds all the more powerfully in light of all she had gone through. She embraced a sense of gender complexity, welcoming people to meet her where she was and where they were, grounded in and alive to the movement of the Spirit.  
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Reflecting at the 76th Convention’s close, she wrote, 

“I am stunned. I have actually become increasingly stunned over the last 2 weeks or so. And that comes from a woman who prides herself on being able to ‘roll with the punches.’ I have had a lot of practice at that.

When I arrived in Anaheim on the afternoon of 7/6 I had no idea what to expect. Certainly we would testify. We would witness to our reality. But, accomplish anything? I had my doubts. My daughter calls me a cynic. I prefer ‘realist,’ as a descriptor…. I sit here on 7/17[09], the last day of the 76th General Convention of the Episcopal Church, stunned, bemused, grateful, joyous, and above all thankful. The Spirit took the willingness of people to stand in their own truths, not just us, but all those willing to stand and say as Luther did, ‘I can do no other,’ and blew through this institutional gathering with a freshness that happens only seldom in a lifetime…. All this will need to unfold in actual practice. As has been noted elsewhere, we still have miles to go, but this General Convention was certainly a milestone in that journey.”

Gari’s reflections from Anaheim reflect so clearly her peaceful, grounded way of being, her openness to the wind of the Spirit, and her direct way of communicating. She was not one to suffer fools gladly, and she named injustice when and where she saw it. Having experienced the church at its worst, she was able both to speak difficult truths and remain connected, open to the transformative power of the Spirit. Again and again at that convention and far beyond, she had powerful one-on-one conversations, not only with and among other trans Episcopalians and Anglicans but also with people who had little context to understand our lives and concerns. She had a true pastor’s heart. With both pastoral and prophetic wisdom, she knew that transformation unfolds over time, sometimes quickly, sometimes agonizingly slowly. She knew that God calls us to connect, to reach toward the nearness of God’s reign together. In the words of the singer-songwriter Margi Adam, she was in it for the long haul.

Gari also had a wicked sense of humor, frequently reducing us to fits of laughter. It was such a joy to know her, to be in community and in shared work with her, to come to know Christ more fully in and through her. We are so grateful for her.

O God of grace and glory, we remember Gari before you and thank you for giving her to us to know and to love as a companion in our pilgrimage on earth. In your compassion, console us who mourn. Give us faith to see that death has been swallowed up in the victory of Christ so that we may live in confidence and hope until, by your call, we are gathered into the company of all your saints; by the power of your Holy Spirit we pray. Amen. (Enriching Our Worship 3, p. 31.)
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For Immediate Release

7/12/2012

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For Immediate Release
The 77th General Convention of The Episcopal Church has now added “gender identity and expression” to the church's nondiscrimination canons for both lay and ordained ministry. The House of Bishops passed the legislation on Saturday, July 7th. The House of Deputies then passed it Monday, July 10, officially making it an act of the convention.  By adding this language to its canons, The Episcopal Church joins the United Church of Christ, which took a similar step in 2003, and the Unitarian Universalist General Assembly, which did so in 2007.  Like The Episcopal Church, both groups have had openly transgender ordained and lay leaders for several years.

"We are filled with joy for this clear affirmation that the Episcopal Church welcomes and values the ministerial gifts of transgender people, lay and ordained,'' members of TransEpiscopal said in a joint statement after the House of Deputies' vote.

''We are also delighted by the strong support and broad understanding of trans issues shown by deputies representing a wide range of regions and generations in this church. As the church steps boldly into new frontiers in various facets of its life, we are proud to be part of this spirit-filled movement. We thank all of our allies, especially IntegrityUSA, The Consultation, and the Chicago Consultation for their tireless, heartfelt support.''

On the final day of Convention the House of Deputies also concurred with the House of Bishops to pass resolution D022 which calls for a Church-Wide Response to Bullying.  "Gender identity and expression" are included along with "economic, ethnic, racial or physical characteristics, religious status and sexual orientation" in a list of characteristics in response to which bullying often takes place.

“Bullying of any kind, for any reason, goes contrary to the second of Jesus’ two great commandments:  to love one’s neighbor as oneself.  As we in the United States continue to grow in awareness of the effects of bullying, we are proud that The Episcopal Church has decided to take a stand in support of the most vulnerable in our society.  Transgender people are certainly among them: according to a 2011 study, 78 percent of transgender people report being bullied or harassed as children.  It is high time for our church to join in the lifesaving work of ending this epidemic.”

The text of D022 reads as follows:

Resolved, the House of Deputies concurring, That the 77th General Convention calls for a church wide response to the epidemic of bullying, particularly of those perceived as being “different” by virtue of economic, ethnic, racial or physical characteristics, religious status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression; bullying is defined as the recurring use of single or combined written, verbal or electronic expressions or physical acts or gestures, directed at any person that: result in physical or emotional harm to the person or damage to his/her property; places the person in reasonable fear of harm to him/herself or of damage to her/his property; creates an intimidating or hostile environment for the person; impacts the rights of the victim.  Bullying shall include cyber-bullying through elctronic/social media, telephonic technology or other means;and be it further

Resolved, That the General Convention encourage new partnerships among our congregations, dioceses, campus ministries, National Association of Episcopal Schools, public schools, counseling centers, and governmental organizations in order to support and offer preventative programs addressing bullying, harassment, and other related violence, especially with higher risk populations; and be it further

Resolved, That these partnerships be encouraged to create or join with existing required programs  designed to recognize and prevent abuse, neglect, and exploitation in our church settings which:

 - utilize positive, inclusive, empowering and developmentally appropriate
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 - raise participant’s awareness about the issue
 - focus on prevention
 - seek to change bystander behavior into ally behavior
 - create partnerships between youth and adults
 - provide intervention and treatment for those who exhibit bullying behavior.

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The Road to Anaheim

7/7/2009

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I should have probably said Flight to Anaheim, but Road sounded a bit more poetic. In any case, I am sitting in an Airport waiting to fly to The General Convention of the Episcopal Church in Anaheim California. To my knowledge five of our number are already there and the remaining three (myself included) will arrive today. Yes we will have eight of our members at Convention. This doesn't sound like a great host of people, but it does represent a great effort and is ground breaking.

The effort represents more than just the eight, because some of you out there contributed to help in the effort. It is ground breaking because we are all out and proud of being who we are. In the car driving to this flight I had an interesting discussion with my friend Brenda. We are all just people like any other of God's created humanity. Whatever the reason we are who we are. As far as the Church is concerned the reasons we are the way we are are irrelevant. God made me and God made you. The differences between people are minor. That God loves us isn't minor. Wouldn't it be nice if the Episcopal Church acknowledged that?

God's Peace,
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- The Rev'd Michelle Hansen
From an Airport
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General Convention History

6/25/2009

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Every three years representatives from each Diocese of the Episcopal Church meet in Convention to make decisions for the life of the whole Episcopal Church. This is called General Convention and it is modeled on the legislative model of our National Government. There is a Senate (The House of Bishops) and a House of Representatives (The House of Deputies.) The Deputies are from both the Lay and Clergy order.

I have never been a Deputy to Convention, but I have attended several, the first one was The Special Convention held in Indiannapolis, ID in 1969 (boy, that dates me!). I was in seminary then and I went with a delegation of seminarians from Berkeley Divinity School at Yale supporting the efforts of seminaries. It was a politically turbulent time, racially (race riots in many cities), politically (with the Viet Nam War), Sexually (the sexual revolution was in full bloom) and educationally.

The last General Convention I attended was held in Minneapolis/St.Paul in 1976. What follows is a synopsis of that Convention.

1976 Minneapolis

Issues, Discussion, Actions:

Ordination of women- Lengthy debate with alternating speakers pro and con - Passed. 114 clergy votes (58 needed for affirmative action: 60 yes; 39 no; 15 div. 113 lay votes; 64 yes; 36 no; 13 divided. Minority resolution states “stand committed to the Episcopal Church, determined to live and work within it, but cannot in good conscience accept.

Proposed Book of Common Prayer - Extensive amendments debated - Vote by orders on main motion — 113 clergy (57 needed) 107 yes; 3 no; 3 div.; 111 lay (56 needed) 90 yes; 12 no; 9 div.

Human Affairs - Standing Commission on Human Affairs and Health charged with concerning itself with theological, ethical and pastoral questions inherent in such aspects of human affairs as human health, sexuality and bioethics

Historical note: Talk of schism; General Convention recommends that the dioceses and the Church in general engage in serious study and dialogue in the area of human sexuality as it pertains to various areas of life, particularly in living styles, employment, housing and education.


That Convention set the ground work for the Modern Episcopal Church. Women Clergy are now fundamental with bishops, priests and deacons throughout the Church and worship has been molded by the 1976 proposed Prayer Book (approved for the second, decisive time at GC 1979).

Once again I am headed to the General Convention to be held in Anaheim next month as part of the delegation from TransEpiscopal. The last Convention I attended affirmed my right to be a priest as a woman. I am hoping that this convention will affirm the rights of all people to fully participate in all facets of the Church no matter the gender, gender identity or expression, or sexual orientation. It has taken me thirty-three years to attend another Convention and I pray this will be as successful as the 1976 Convention. I am however more expecting more on the scale of what happened in 1969. At that time there was hardly any recognition of the presence or needs of seminarians. All the clergy had been to seminary, but most left it behind as a fond remembrance, forgetting that seminaries and seminarians' needs change with time.

I am hoping at least that there will be a dawning of awareness that transgender people exist in the Church and that we are equally God's children. I am also hoping that issues of sexuality will not be swept under the rug and avoided. We will see and we will report here.

God's Peace,

- The Rev. Michelle Hansen, S.T.M., M.Div.
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A Letter from the Consultation

9/26/2007

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The following is a letter written on September 24th by the Consultation, a coalition of justice organizations in the Episcopal Church, to the House of Bishops as they deliberated on their statement. Two of us from TransEpiscopal participated in the Newark meeting and, while the letter has been posted on several other blogs and websites for the last couple of days, we post it here as a sign of a process in which we were proud to take part. Even as we struggle in these difficult days in the Anglican Communion, this kind of collaboration gives us hope.

Integrity

TransEpiscopal

Episcopal Urban Caucus

Episcopal Peace Fellowship

Episcopal Women's Caucus

Union of Black Episcopalians

Episcopal Ecological Network

National Episcopal AIDS Coalition

Province VIII Indigenous Ministries

Episcopal Church Publishing Company

Episcopal Network for Economic Justice

Episcopal Asiaamerica Ministry Advocates

Associated Parishes for Liturgy and Mission


September 24, 2007

A message from The Consultation to the House of Bishops as it deliberates its message to the Church.

The thirteen constituent members of The Consultation, representative of the independent justice organizations of The Episcopal Church, meeting September 23-24 in Newark, wish to remind the members of the House of Bishops that they represent one house of the General Convention, and one constituency of the baptized in The Episcopal Church.

Any message you make must be mindful of the fact that the Executive Council has made a very clear statement on the matter before you and that General Convention will not speak on this matter until its meeting in 2009.  

We have in mind the language of the Baptismal Covenant which calls us to respect the dignity of every human being. It is not respectful of our lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender sisters and brothers when we tell them that they are full participants in the church and then place restrictions on their participation at any level of the church's life.

In the preamble of the 2006 platform of The Consultation we affirm that we see the image of God and the Christ in others and ourselves. We believe that all the baptized are called to share in the governance and mission of the Church at all levels. We see the increase of power claimed by the episcopate as imbalance in The Body.

We urge you to have these things in the forefront of your minds and hearts, as you craft this statement. The sacred vows of The Baptismal Covenant and the tradition and heritage of the participatory governance of The Episcopal Church must not be squandered for a single Lambeth conference.

We urge you as bishops not to walk apart from the rest of the priesthood of all believers in The Episcopal Church, and to embrace the unconditional love of God as made incarnate in the radical inclusion of Jesus Christ. May the Holy Spirit be with you to guide you in all strength and courage in these difficult days as ordained leaders in The Church.

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