My dear friend and colleague, the Rev. Sean Dennison has posted a commentary via blog that is well worth reading. His words resonate with me as my current position rounds the last bend and I enter into the search for a new congregation to serve. I encourage all to read his words on the TRUUsT website.
TRUUsT Is Born!
Transgender Religious Professional Unitarian Universalists Together (TRUUsT) is a newly forming organization within the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations (UUA). TRUUsT serves as a touchstone for transgender policy issues within the UUA. Thanks to funding from the Unitarian Universalist Funding Program, TRUUsT’s steering committee held its first meeting 22-25 April 2008, in a retreat setting where the participants started developing working relationships, uncovering transgender history in the UUA, and planning for future meetings. Membership on the steering committee has been by invitation only. Membership in the TRUUsT organization is open to any Unitarian Universalist transgender or transgender ally who is a member of either the Liberal Religious Educators Association (LREDA) or the Unitarian Univeralist Ministers Association (UUMA). The organization plans to hold an annual membership retreat for transgender religious professionals and their religious professional allies (date to be announced, possibly beginning in 2009).
