This month, half of our Sunday Offering will go to Advocates for Trans Equality (A4TE). Established in 2024, A4TE was conceived in February 2022, when Texas state officials directed state child protection workers to investigate parents who were suspected of having provided their children with medically necessary transition-related healthcare. It was the first time that state officials had ordered this kind of investigation, and it represented a new, extremely frightening level of danger to the trans community.
Along with the record-setting attacks on the trans community in state legislatures across the country, a stronger, bolder response to the unprecedented vitriol and legislative attacks on trans people nationwide is needed. Two leading national trans civil rights organizations, National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) and Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund (TLDEF) merged together last year to lead the next chapter of the transgender rights movement.
A4TE policy experts, litigators, and community organizers work at all levels of government to ensure trans voices are not only heard, but embraced in rooms where they’ve long been ignored. As a trans-led nonprofit, they also help their community navigate the realities of law and policy through vital tools, knowledge, and services.
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 Advocates for Transgender Equality. Your donations will support the organization’s 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 of A4TE. To give right now, text “$20 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.
