The Unitarian Universalists have an office for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Concerns. This site states the following: "Unitarian Universalism has been on record as supporting the rights of bisexual, gay, and lesbian people since 1970. The Office was formed in 1973. We have advocated against sodomy laws and job and housing discrimination. We have advocated for ceremonies of union and same-gender marriage, the right to serve in the military, the right to lead congregations as ministers and religious professionals, and the right to be parents. We are now on record as supporting the rights of transgender people. The number of Welcoming Congregations is growing, having nearly doubled in the last 18 months. There is still much homophobia and heterosexism. The work and the story are still in progress. Each of us has the opportunity to be a part of the work and the story."

In addition to suggestions to congregations on how they can be "welcoming congregations" and other interesting items, they offer a Transgender 102 statement, which talks a bit about T* acceptance, address, etc. They put together the list with the help of T* folk but note that not all T* people agree with what they say. http://www.uua.org/obgltc/

T.R. Fischer provides an interesting, if somewhat outdated, bibliography of books on T* issues and spirituality. It can be found at: http://www.yak.net/third/Ref/2Biblio/tg-spirit.html

A strong resource for LGBT spirituality can be found at: http://members.aol.com/theloego/gay/page2.html. Do some poking around at the site to find other good information.

Another good page, particularly for T* folk of Christian experience is http://www.susans.org/Spirituality/

Finally, a very thorough Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender Recovery and Spirituality Sites on the Web page can be found at http://www.execpc.com/~reva/html1gay.htm, including lists of accepting places of worship and more.

http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/oneigla/tb/Transgender.html is their T* specific links page. Unfortunately, many of their links are broken.

http://www.members.tripod.com/~orthogays/list.html A description of the OrthoGays e-mailing list, as well as links to other Jewish mailing lists, including TransJews.

http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/Chelsea/1500, (unfortunately, this URL also contains outdated links) an e-mail discussion list for transgendered, transsexual, genderqueer and gender-questioning Jews (religious and secular) of all backgrounds and ages.

Dana Friedman's home page, including a section on Jews and Gender http://www.pipleline.com/~danaf

Transgender Warrior: The Domain of Leslie Feinberg http://www.transgenderwarrior.org

An article on Cross Dressing and Deuteronomy 22:5 http://www.uscj.org/ctvalley/beki/crossdress.html

Berlin, Meyer, and Shlomo Josef Zevin. 1974. Encyclopedia Talmudica. Jerusalem. The Jewish Talmud discusses hermaphrodites in many locations, and lays out regulations governing matrimony, priesthood, inheritance and other matters for intersexuals. The Talmudic sages held variously that the hermaphrodite was: of uncertain sex, but in some essential way actually either male or female; part male and part female; definitely male, but only in respect to certain laws. And, in an eerie echo of modern medical practice, one Talmudic writer even differentiates the hermaphrodite, whose sex can never be resolved, from the Tumtum, whose sex is ascertainable through surgery.

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