Episcopal Church adopts trans-inclusive policies

[Butterfly]

Episcopal Church adopts trans-inclusive policies
B.A.R.
By Chuck Colbert
August 27, 2009


http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4160


They were a party of eight, four transgender women, two transmen, a gay man, and straight woman ally. They told friends, "We're going to Anaheim," not too far away from Disneyland.

They were also change agents. By the end of their church's triennial gathering last month this band of sisters and brothers made Episcopalian history with the advent of trans-inclusive action and convention-floor testimony from a 19-year-old man believed to be the first openly transgender deputy.

[Michelle.]

"A fifth resolution, an effort to add "gender identity and expression" to the church's non-discrimination canons, or church laws, passed in one house and was amended in another house by striking various categories – for instance, race, age, and ethnicity, among others – and substituting "all people."

Another example of the simplest statement making the most sense.