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As religious leaders and faith-based organizations across faith traditions, we want to express our strong support for Transgender, Gender Non-Conforming & Non-Binary people and the National Trans Visibility March on DC. Coming from diverse backgrounds and all corners of this country, we come together and raise our voices to ensure marginalized communities not only survive but can thrive in this country.  

With the Equality Act of 2019 being threatened by the Senate, the onslaught of attacks from the current White House Administration including the Trans Military Ban and gutting of critical programs and services, there is a need to mobilize America to recognize and fight for the rights of those who identify as Transgender, Gender Non-Conforming & Non-Binary.

We urge concerned people for peace, freedom and equality to join us on September 28, 2019 on the frontlines for the National Trans Visibility March. We’ll march in solidarity in support of equal rights and inclusion for all communities and demand justice for our siblings whose lives were taken through senseless murders. Just in 2019 alone, 12 Black Trans women have been killed. We cannot ignore this crisis and must act with urgency.

As people of conscience and faith, we understand that an injury to one is an injury to all and the service to the communities we are part of and our quest for social justice are intersectional. We know that the challenges faced by transgender, gender non-conforming and non-binary folks are disproportionate to those in the broader Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community and especially during these turbulent political times, this march and support from allies and co-conspirators are critical.

We pray that people from our congregations, communities and this country will see the challenges faced by the marginalized and understand that our liberation is bound to one another. As interfaith leaders and organizations, this is a call to action and call on you to assert our collective power in support of transgender, gender non-conforming and non-binary people. This is not only critical, but also aligned with the values and vision for the country and the world we are striving to create.

Please join us in supporting the National Trans Visibility March on DC and pushing for LGBT, gender, health, economic, racial and social justice for all.

Signers as of August 25, 2019:
AFFIRMATION LGBTQ Mormons Families and Friends
Beloved Community Church UCC
Capital Area Christian Church
Cathedral of Hope OKC UCC
CCWDC-UCC
Central Atlantic Conference, United Church of Christ
Christ Congregational Church
Church of the Open Arms UCC
DignityUSA
Disciples LGBTQ+ Alliance
Empowerment Liberation Cathedral
Faith Temple DC
First Congregational Church
First Congregational United Church of Christ
Global Justice Institute
God Can Ministries UCC
Iglesia Cristiana Nacional (Discípulos
INNER LIGHT MINISTRIES-UCC
Jeffrey Harris International Ministries
Love Center United Church of Christ
MCC Belo Horizonte
MCC Latín America
Memorial Congregational Church UCC
Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church
Metropolitan Community Church of Belo Horizonte
Metropolitan Community Church of Washington, DC
Metropolitan Community Churches
Ministers for Racial, Social, and Economic Justice--United Church of Christ
Myrtle Baptist Church
New Ways Ministry
Open and Affirming Coalition of the United Church of Christ
Parity
Pastor Victoria L. Burson
Reconciling Ministries Network
Rehoboth Fellowship Of Atlanta UCC
Religious Institute
Remnant Christian Center
Restoration Fellowship RVA
Ridgeview Congregational Church UCC
Rock Spring Congregational United Church of Christ
St. John’s UCC
The Community Church of Washington, DC UCC
The Global Justice Institute
The Regeneration Project
The Sanctuary (Saint Louis)
UCC Open and Affirming Coalition
Unitarian Universalist Justice Arizona Network (UUJAZ)
Walk By Faith Ministries Inc.
Warwick United Church of Christ
Wichita Falls MCC
Wollaston Congregational Church, United Church of Christ