This month, half of our Sunday Offering will go to the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE). NCTE is a national social justice organization devoted to ending discrimination and violence against transgender people through education and advocacy on national issues of importance to transgender people. By empowering transgender people and their allies to educate and influence policymakers and others, this nonprofit facilitates a strong and clear voice for transgender equality in our nation’s capital and around the country. In January 2024, the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) announced that they will be merging with the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) to form a new organization, Advocates for Trans Equality (A4TE). The merger is in process.
Throughout the US, increasing numbers of transgender people are coming out and trying to live safe and productive lives. Too often, they face discrimination, harassment and violence, resulting in unemployment, homelessness, and negative health outcomes. NCTE’s theory of change includes the belief that we must work in concert with all communities who face discrimination, violence, or limitations on opportunities because of race, nationality, class, religion, ability, and other dimensions of identity. For example, policy changes focused only on our identities as trans people will not be enough to end disproportionate poverty among trans people; we must join with others working to challenge economic inequality itself and ensure that people of all backgrounds have a real opportunity to participate and succeed in American life.
Generous Congregation
Our practice here at UUSM is to dedicate half of our non-pledge Sunday offerings to organizations doing work in the world that advances our Unitarian Universalist principles; the other 50% of the offering is used to support the life of our church.
UUSM’s Generous Congregation program supports our church community. And together, we uplift the reach and impact of vital organizations doing work we could not do on our own. This month, half of our Sunday offerings will go to the National Center for Transgender Equality. In January 2024, the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) announced that they will be merging with the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) to form a new organization, Advocates for Trans Equality (A4TE). Until the merger paperwork is finalized, donations are being collected by NCTE for the 501(c)(3) A4TE Education Fund. Your donations will support the organizations’ future work to tirelessly to uplift the needs of the trans community and ensure trans people have a real opportunity to participate and succeed in American life.
Please consider supporting the mission of our church and the National Center for Transgender Equality. To give right now, text “$10 GCC” to 844-982-0209. (One-time-only credit card registration required.) Or visit Make a Donation at uusm.org and reference Generous Congregation. Thank you.
