transgender
The journey of one transgender Latina in the church
By Becky Garrison — June 29, 2015
(RNS) Nicole Garcia says she was "a good Catholic boy" when she was in her teens. Today, she is a candidate for ordination in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. She is on track to be the denomination’s first transgender clergyperson of color.
How Mike Huckabee fails his Christian duty (COMMENTARY)
By Kirsten Powers — June 10, 2015
Huckabee appears to believe that transgender people are perpetrating some sort of hoax so they can gain access to public restrooms or locker rooms. Or that they've chosen to identify with a particular gender on a whim.
Despite Pakistan’s ‘third gender’ recognition, discrimination is widespread
By Yasir Habib Khan — June 8, 2015
LAHORE, Pakistan (RNS) Pakistan added a "third gender" option to national identity cards in 2009, but official recognition has not stopped discrimination against "khawaja saras," those who choose not to be identified as either male or female.
San Francisco archbishop blasts gender transitions as threat to faith
By David Gibson — June 3, 2015
(RNS) Amid the national buzz over transgender celebrity Caitlyn (formerly Bruce) Jenner, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone denounced the spread of “gender ideology” and warned that it threatens the very foundation of the church’s faith.
The church’s devaluation of trans lives is violence
By Eliel Cruz — April 7, 2015
The only time most Christians speak about transgender community is to condemn them.
Transgender Mormons struggle to feel at home in their bodies and their religion
By Peggy Fletcher Stack — April 1, 2015
SALT LAKE CITY – Three transgender Mormons say the church's emphasis on the physical link between body and spirit and its insistence that gender is eternal made it tougher to acknowledge what was happening with them.
Gay and transgender inmates invited to lunch with Pope Francis during prison visit
By David Gibson — March 19, 2015
(RNS) The pope insisted on lunch, which will be prepared by the prisoners, some of whom will come from two other detention centers.
Gay Catholics find a new tone under Pope Francis, and from their own bishops
By David Gibson — February 16, 2015
ROME (RNS) New Ways Ministry and a similar Catholic LGBT organization in Britain are finding support from the Catholic hierarchy in their efforts to meet the pontiff.
David Gushee: “There’s an awful lot of suffering going on”
By Eliel Cruz — February 9, 2015
The evangelical ethicist says Christianity must abandon “toxic traditions” that harm the LGBT community.
Letter to my possible son: You will always be my child (COMMENTARY)
By Lily Burana — January 9, 2015
(RNS) Say that as the years go by you find that your physical self doesn’t match your sense of your own gender. How will I love you? The same. I will raise you and love you just the same.
Parents don’t have to choose between their faith and their LGBT kids (COMMENTARY)
By Caitlin Ryan — January 7, 2015
(RNS) Families can learn to support their LGBT children when guidance and services are provided in ways that resonate for them, including education presented in the context of cultural and religious values.
Why I stand with the Houston Five (COMMENTARY)
By Scott R. Murray — October 17, 2014
HOUSTON (RNS) Subpoenas issued by the mayor and the City Council of Houston attack two of the freedoms protected in the First Amendment: the free exercise of religion and the right to political speech.
Southern Baptists oppose gender reassignment
By Adelle M. Banks — June 10, 2014
BALTIMORE (RNS) Southern Baptists voted to affirm "God’s good design" that gender is set by biology, "not by one’s self-perception.”
Drag queen winner of Eurovision contest condemned by Russian Orthodox Church
By Sophia Kishkovsky — May 12, 2014
MOSCOW (RNS) Both the Kremlin and the Moscow Patriarchate have been positioning Russia as a moral bastion in contrast to Europe and the United States.
Transgender student denied on-campus male housing at Christian university
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey — April 9, 2014
(RNS) A transgender student at George Fox University has filed a formal complaint after being denied all-male housing on campus.
