New Episcopal Chaplain a Role Model Cameron Partridge, first openly transgendere

[Shana A]

New Episcopal Chaplain a Role Model
Cameron Partridge, first openly transgendered chaplain
11.18.2011 By Rich Barlow

http://www.bu.edu/today/2011/new-episcopal-chaplain-a-role-model/

You probably aren't aware that November 20 is the national Transgender Day of Remembrance. Cameron Partridge is. The observance began after the 1998 murder of a transgendered Boston woman. November 20 also happens to be Partridge's birthday (he turns 38 this year), and BU's new Episcopal minister, the University's first openly transgendered chaplain, once shuddered at a birthday that reminded him both about his own mortality "and that you could be killed."

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As he takes over the University's part-time Episcopalian chaplaincy, Partridge, who lives outside Boston with his wife and their toddler son, says he wants to minister with the empathy that has sometimes been denied him since he completed his transition to a man in 2001. His father, for example, no longer speaks to him. "It's not my choice," he says. (Most family and friends accepted him after long conversations.)