Trans religious leaders say scripture should inspire inclusive congregations – By Deena Prichep (NPR) / Sept 25, 2022
PORTLAND, Ore.— Something as small as signs that say “men” and “women” on the bathrooms in a house of worship can shut the door to trans people.
“For me as a non-binary person, I’ve been to so many churches where they don’t have a bathroom that I feel like I can use,” says AJ Buckley, an Episcopal priest in Portland, Ore. “And so I’ll just not go to the bathroom there.”
Churches are tasked with living out the Bible’s message both from the pulpit and in the pews.
And it’s hard to connect to spiritual concerns if people there to sing and pray literally can’t be physically comfortable.
