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When your Mormon child comes out … as trans
By Jana Riess — August 30, 2018
Two Mormon mothers discuss the unique struggles of raising transgender kids, especially when the LDS Church is not supportive or dismisses gender dysphoria as something that will be healed in the afterlife.
Rhode Island Council of Churches director takes leave for gender transition
By Mark A. Kellner — May 15, 2018
(RNS) — The Rev. Donald Anderson, 70, executive minister of the Rhode Island State Council of Churches, will take a three-month leave beginning June 1 to complete a transition from male to female.
Nancy Pearcey and Jonathan Merritt spar on the hottest of hot topics
By Jonathan Merritt — January 26, 2018
Pearcey's razor-sharp mind combined with a compelling personal story makes her a powerful, if undervalued, champion for conservatives.
HHS Civil Rights Office to protect freedom of conscience
By Thomas Reese — January 19, 2018
When HHS does get around to writing its rules, it would do well to listen to the Catholic Health Association in developing rules that protect individual consciences but do not discriminate.
US court bars Trump from reversing transgender troop policy
By David Crary — October 31, 2017
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled that the transgender service members who had sued over Trump's policy were likely to win their lawsuit.
Trump, unlikely religious favorite, hails Christian values
By Jerome Socolovsky — October 13, 2017
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump assured a high-profile gathering of Christian conservatives that his administration will defend religious organizations, promising a return to traditional American values.
With bathroom bill dead, Texas pastors’ council looks to future fights
By Andy Duehren — August 23, 2017
Founded in 2003 as a group of Houston-area pastors, the Texas Pastor Council has grown into a burgeoning statewide apparatus with eyes on someday becoming a nationwide force.
Trump’s evangelical advisers discussed transgender ban at White House meeting
By Emily McFarlan Miller — July 27, 2017
(RNS) — Evangelical leaders who advise the president reportedly discussed reversing the policy during a recent gathering at the White House and sent a letter to the president asking for the action.
Religious leaders respond to Trump’s transgender military ban
By Adelle M. Banks — July 26, 2017
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Cheers and condemnations greeted the president's tweet.
US court lifts injunction on Mississippi law seen as anti-LGBT
By Reuters — June 22, 2017
(Reuters) Opponents said they will likely seek to overturn the decision, arguing that the measure, backed by Christian groups, allowed for sweeping discrimination.
Faith leaders respond to reversal of transgender guidelines
By Emily McFarlan Miller — February 23, 2017
(RNS) Religious leaders have voiced mixed reactions to President Trump's reversal of protections that allowed transgender students to use the bathrooms that correspond with their gender identity.
Boy Scouts Christian alternative sees ‘tremendous response’ after transgender decision
By Adelle M. Banks — February 17, 2017
(RNS) 'Where many people would say that they’re leaving Boy Scouts, we have many others that are saying that the Boy Scouts left them,' Trail Life USA's CEO said.
Boy Scouts of America to begin accepting transgender boys
By Reuters — January 31, 2017
(Reuters) The move bucks a more-than-century-old practice of using the gender stated on a birth certificate to determine eligibility.
Cameroon’s outlawed sexual and gender minorities face a ‘cemetery peace’
By Mbom Sixtus — December 25, 2016
“Some people may think LGBTI+ people live in peace in Cameroon. Their lives can only be compared to the peace and serenity of a graveyard. They are silent but live in distress.”
Repeal of N.C.’s ‘bathroom bill’ stumbles
By Sean Rossman — December 22, 2016
(USA Today) A deal has fallen apart to undo the North Carolina law known as the 'bathroom bill' in a sign of the state's bitter political divide.
