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.
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