Click here for a Zoom link for this online CLGS event!

The political landscape of the past year produced more anti-trans rhetoric and legislation than ever before. In the face of this anti-trans onslaught, faith leaders are called to organize, provide support, and speak truth to volatile power. Many trans and nonbinary religious leaders find ourselves in leadership roles providing spiritual care to primarily cisgender congregations and communities.

In this CLGS Transgender Roundtable Workshop, we will explore methods of connection, affirmation, and empowerment for trans, nonbinary, and otherwise gender-creative people in religious leadership. We will also give specific attention to the needs of trans leaders who are serving in non-trans spaces, including strategizing together about caring for others and others while our own lives, legal identities, and bodily autonomy are under attack.

This workshop is intended for religious leaders who identify as trans, nonbinary, or genderqueer; allies are welcome to attend, although priority will be given to trans voices.

Workshop Leader

Rev. Jakob Hero-Shaw (he/him) is the coordinator of the Transgender Roundtable at the Center for LGBTQ and Gender Studies (CLGS) and a faculty member of the Trans Seminarian Leadership Cohort. He is the Senior Pastor of the Metropolitan Community Church of Tampa.

Jakob received his Master of Divinity degree and Certificate in Sexuality and Religion from the Pacific School of Religion and his Master of Arts in Ethics and Social Theory from the Graduate Theological Union. Jakob’s greatest joy is raising two amazing kids, Mima and Ruben, with his husband, Allan.