Transgender-Nonbinary
Resources for Solidarity and Action
#TransJustice #UCCMovement
Transgender Day of Remembrance
(TDOR) — November 20, a global day of mourning for transgender persons who have lost their lives to anti-transgender/nonbinary violence; a day to renew our commitments to and solidarity with people of trans and nonbinary experience.
UCC Pride Month Call to Action:
Rise-up in solidarity with people of transgender or nonbinary experience
Saying “the stakes have never been higher,” a letter from the national setting of the United Church of Christ is calling the entire denomination to a special focus during Pride Month, June 2022. It urges all “UCC communities to center trans experience, advocacy and care in your Pride celebrations this year.”
Trans-Nonbinary Pastoral Letter
The Council of Conference Ministers, the Officers of the United Church of Christ, and the UCC Open and Affirming Coalition join together in a pastoral letter addressing the attacks on people of transgender or nonbinary experience across the United States.
UCC Trans-Nonbinary Toolkit
Given what is at stake for our trans, nonbinary and queer kin, we are calling on UCC communities to center trans experience, advocacy, and care in your PRIDE celebrations and beyond this year. Add your voice to the collective effort toward justice for trans and nonbinary people. This Toolkit is designed to provided resources for your engagement.
Beloved By God Video Campaign
The United Church of Christ Trans-Nonbinary Strategy Group is calling on all faith leaders to record and post on social media a 30-second video offering words of encouragement, support, and solidarity with people of Trans and Nonbinary experience, their families, loved ones, and allies using the hashtags: #TransJustice #UCCMovement.
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Transgender and Nonbinary Dignity and Rights Under Attack
These talking points are for use in general conversation, panel presentations, interviews, church legislative bodies, and other settings of engagement on the issues. Anti-trans political forces are trying to criminalize families and doctors as they work to address the trauma of being assigned a gender at birth that is incongruous with the child’s or adult’s actual gender identity. Children are being targeted by banning them from sports teams that match their gender. These attacks not only impact trans and nonbinary children and youth, but adults and seniors, as well, and are drivers of crimes against trans and nonbinary people that continue to escalate. These actions threaten the safety and well-being of the whole community.
More Resources:
Trans-Nonbinary-Centered Worship Resources
Articles and Statements
- Solidarity with Transgender and Nonbinary Youth, a Witness for Justice article by Rev. Andy Lang
- UCC ministries: Alabama anti-trans legislation ‘outrageous’
- Visibility matters at Texas church and in UCC push for transgender rights
- Celebrating UCC trans leaders and International Trans Day of Visibility
- Read and sign-on to the Open Letter of Support from United Church of Christ Clergy and Leaders for People of Trans or Nonbinary Experience in Texas
- Commentary: A call for solidarity and action for trans and nonbinary people by Rev. Yadi Martinez
- UCC ministries: Texas transgender directive ‘cruel, harmful, morally wrong.
Information and Advocacy:
- UCC Open and Affirming Coalition resources: transgender and worship
- HRC Transgender and Nonbinary People FAQ
- Improving School Climate for Transgender and Nonbinary Youth
- Research from the Williams Institute
- Resources for Trans Youth in Texas
- Ohio Can Play Campaign
- Color Splash at Slumber Falls Camp, New Braunfels: An inclusive and empowering environment and program that opens its doors to all LGBTQ+ youth and their allies.
- Parents: TransParent
- Justice and Witness Advocacy Guide
- Welcoming Transgender Children to Church
From Join the Movement
- TRANS JUSTICE IS RACIAL JUSTICE TOOLKIT
- An Open Letter…And We’re Still Here
Spoken word poet, Schmian Evans offers an open letter for Trans Day of Visibility – and every day – that celebrates the persistent resistant belovedness of trans, queer and nonbinary people of color whose light cannot be dimmed by transphobia or anti-trans policies and laws.- Messengers for Justice: Trans Latinx Women Speaking Out in Collaboration
Among a population that experiences multiple layers of oppression, transgender immigrants of color are among the most vulnerable to discrimination and violence. Rev. Rhina Ramos shares the story of the collaboration between Ministerio Latino, a UCC Spanish-speaking congregation that welcomes the LGBTQI Latinx immigrant community, and Charlotte, a formerly detained trans Latina advocating for trans siblings who were still incarcerated.
- Messengers for Justice: Trans Latinx Women Speaking Out in Collaboration
Tips on writing op-eds, letters to the editor, and related actions:
- Human Rights Campaign action tools:
writing editorials and Op Eds - NY Times “Tips for aspiring op-ed writers”
Contacting state legislators and candidates:
Texas
UCC News Story: UCC ‘a visible presence’ at National Tran Visibility March in DC.