“Ministry on the Gender Margins” was originally published by Jeannine Gramick on Jun. 14, 2018 in Global Sisters Report. Sr. Luisa Derouen is a pioneer in the “T” of LGBT ministry. A few women religious are ministering among transgender people today, but Sister Luisa was the first to do so, as early as 1999, when most Catholics were just coming to […]
TransGender People of Faith: Your Retreat is Coming!
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To Leelah’s Parents and All Religious Parents of Transgender Teens
To Leelah’s Parents and All Religious Parents of Transgender Teens: Trust God, not fundamentalism I treat many transgender teens, from ages 14 up, and I meet many scared parents (although I meet many trusting, open parents too). The most scared are those who, paradoxically, could have the most trust: religious parents. Religion is supposed to […]
Christmas, Alone
By happenstance, I’m alone today and tomorrow, Christmas Eve and Day. Last time this happened was half my lifetime ago, when I was just 24 and enduring a rough patch. That holiday was spent in unwelcome solitude, in a Minnesota winter with its usual awful cold. But it was not, in the end, an awful […]
Interfaith Transgender Spiritual Retreat A Success!
Neither snow nor cold kept transgender adults of several faiths–Jewish, Catholic, Methodist, Nazarene, Evangelical–from gathering in a warm cabin with good food, rich conversation and deep reflection over this past weekend on our Transgender Spiritual Retreat. Our goals were to simple: to take time away from busy lives to reconnect with the God of our individual […]