neonsunlight:starlightomatic:linguist-breakaribecca: Trans-inclusive language in religious texts is
neonsunlight:starlightomatic:linguist-breakaribecca: Trans-inclusive language in religious texts is SO IMPORTANT. There is nothing in some young people’s lives that can either validate or dehumanize them so quickly as how they see themselves represented in the words of their religion. May all who need to see these words find them. Some more trans Jewish resources!More blessings for gender transitionMikvah ritual for gender transitionBlessing for chest bindingPrayer for closeting/misgendering yourselfName change ceremonyBaby naming ceremony with a single gestational father [ID text: Tweet by Twitter user @remembrancermx: “Found this in a new prayerbook I bought & now I’m sobbing. This was so important to find for Shabbat.”Excerpt from Where Healing Resides by Mishkan R'fuah:“A Prayer for Transitioning GenderMay the One who blesses our ancestors, Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, Leah, Zilpah, and Bilhah; Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—bless me as I enter into this new chapter in my life. The world was not formed by a single act. Each and every day God renews the work of creation. May God grant me the strength to renew my own creation. May I open my heart and mind to continuous growth, unexpected change, and the perpetual unsettling, liberating expansion of being alive; may I have the courage to name and sanctify this moment of change that is shaping my body and soul in the image of the ever-evolving Divine. Blessed are You, El Shaddai, our God, the Renewing One of the world, who has allowed me to reach this time of transformation. And let us say: Amen.” /end ID] -- source link