Transgender Day of Remembrance is November 20
Transgender Day of Remembrance is a day to remember those who have died from transphobia, the fear and hatred of transgender people.
Here are some resources that you may find useful in planning a Transgender Day of Remembrance event, study, or gathering in your congregation.
transAction: A Transgender Curriculum for Churches and Religious Institutions.
transACTION helps churches address understanding and
welcome by providing step-by-step training about
the needs, apprehensions and fears of transgender
people – as well as the wealth of gifts and graces
they bring.
My Son Wears Dresses; Get Over It
A blog by Matt Duron:
I’ve been a police officer for more than 15 years. I’ve been a detective and now I’m a senior officer who trains the new recruits out on the street. Before that I was a firefighter. Before that I played football in college after playing baseball and football in high school, and lettering my sophomore year. I like beer, classic trucks, punk music, riding my motorcycle and catching the game with my buddies. I’m a stereotypical “guy’s guy” and hyper-masculine to a lot of people, I guess. Which may be why it surprises them when they find out that my son wears dresses. And heels, and makeup. It surprises them even more when they learn that I’m cool with it. And at this point, I wouldn’t want him to change. Because, if my son liked boy stuff and dressed like a boy, he wouldn’t be my boy, he’d be like a stranger.
Matt’s wife Lori Duron is the author of Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender Creative Son
A publication from The National Center for Transgender Equality and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Opening the Door covers practical ways to include transgender people in a fully inclusive community.
Injustice at Every Turn: A Report of the National Transgender Discrimination Survey from the National Center for Transgender Equality and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
From Injustice at Every Turn:
This study brings to light what is both patently obvious and far too often dismissed from the human rights agenda. Transgender and gender non-conforming people face injustice at every turn: in childhood homes, in school systems that promise to shelter and educate, in harsh and exclusionary workplaces, at the grocery store, the hotel front desk, in doctors’ offices and emergency rooms, before judges and at the hands of landlords, police officers, health care workers and other service providers.