\n<\/p>\n
In light of President Joe Biden\u2019s recognition of \u201cTransgender Day of Visibility\u201d on Easter Sunday, a handful of liberal churches and other religious groups followed suit in observance.<\/p>\n
Some of these churches reportedly mixed transgenderism and Easter celebrations in their services.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo celebrate Easter in Canada, the Calgary Unitarians, a\u00a0liberal religious organization, is incorporating a drag show as part of its Sunday service that will show \u201csupport [for] our Trans Siblings\u201d and serve as a \u2018sacred act of protest,\u2019\u201d\u00a0Fox News reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n The United Church of Christ\u2019s minister for Gender and Sexuality Justice Ministries, Rachel Ward, declared that \u201cLGBTQ+ people\u00a0need a resurrection moment where death does not have the word and love transcends hate.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe resurrection story holds for LGBTQ+ people of faith the ultimate promise and truth: God is constantly coming out for your love and your personhood. And God knows intimately the ways it aches when those around us deny us of our rights to be human and in relationship to each other,\u201d Ward wrote in an article published on the church\u2019s website.<\/p>\n \u201cResurrection this Easter Sunday can look like uplifting not just the disparities trans and non-binary siblings are facing, but offering space for their gifts from God to be celebrated.,\u201d Ward added.<\/p>\n A church in California also combined its celebration of Easter with this year\u2019s Transgender Day of Visibility by recognizing \u201ctrans and nonbinary people\u201d in a new\u00a0photo-text exhibit<\/a>\u00a0that will be available for viewing for three Sundays in a row.<\/p>\n \u201cHow appropriate that Easter and the Transgender Day of Visibility coincide this year! The trans and nonbinary people shown with their families in the photo-text exhibit that opens today at UUCPA exemplify the joyful rebirth one can experience by being authentically oneself with others,\u201d church leaders shared in a post<\/a>\u00a0to the church\u2019s website.<\/p>\n \u201cAll of us, no matter what our gender identity, are called again and again to fuller life. To respond to the call, we may feel we are dying to the old self and being reborn. In this intergenerational Easter Sunday service, let us celebrate one another\u2019s courageous, faithful leaps into new life, and the love that makes them possible,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n