{"id":76049,"date":"2018-12-11T14:00:45","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T19:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=76049"},"modified":"2018-12-11T17:37:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T22:37:26","slug":"church-of-england-guidance-for-gender-transition-services-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=76049","title":{"rendered":"(Church of England) Guidance for gender transition services published"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paragraph paragraph--type--introduction paragraph--view-mode--default\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"container-inner\">New guidance for parishes planning services to help transgender people mark their transition has been published by the Church of England.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph paragraph--type--text paragraph--view-mode--default\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"container-inner\">\n<p>The\u00a0<a class=\"u-mouseBlur\" href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofengland.org\/media\/15697\">pastoral guidance<\/a>, which will be incorporated into Common Worship*, encourages clergy to be \u201ccreative and sensitive\u201d in using liturgy to enable people to mark a major transition in their lives.<\/p>\n<p>It formally commends the incorporation of the existing rite for the Affirmation of Baptismal Faith into services which mark gender transition.<\/p>\n<p>It details how elements including water and oil can be incorporated into the service and, crucially, makes clear that trans people should be addressed publicly by their chosen name.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the service they could also be presented with gifts, such as a Bible inscribed in their chosen\u00a0name, or a certificate.<\/p>\n<p>It is important, the guidance adds, that the occasion should have a distinct \u201ccelebratory character\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofengland.org\/more\/media-centre\/news\/guidance-gender-transition-services-published\">Read it all<\/a> and make sure to follow the link and read the full text of the guidance itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New guidance for parishes planning services to help transgender people mark their transition has been published by the Church of England. The\u00a0pastoral guidance, which will be incorporated into Common Worship*, encourages clergy to be \u201ccreative and sensitive\u201d in using liturgy<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=76049\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,389,168,104,184,177,129,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-church-of-england-coe","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-psychology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76050,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76049\/revisions\/76050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}