Growing up Trans in North Carolina

I grew up in the small, conservative town of Wilson, North Carolina. This is normally where I ask people whether or...

Standing With Our Transgender Siblings

Those of us at More Light know that today is an especially difficult day for our transgender siblings. With the announcement...

Testimony Against Texas SB6

I am the Reverend Laura Walters, pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Lake Travis, an ordained minister of the Word and...

My Pronouns Are

When I learned the word cisgender I thought, Oh that’s not me. It took 3 years before I claimed my shelter...

Hope Springs Forth

Four weeks ago my partner and I moved back to my home state of North Carolina. Just two weeks later the...

Why Trans* Rights Should Matter to the Church

My coming to faith and my coming to consciousness about gender identity have strangely run in tandem. I came out as...

Trans* Day of Remembrance

Every year on November 20, communities communities gather throughout the United States and internationally to commemorate Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR)....

“T” as in Teacher

Recently I met a young man transitioning from being a female to being the male God created him to be. A.J....

A Glimpse of Greatness: The Trans 100

Today is International Transgender Day of Visibility and More Light Presbyterians celebrates the courage it takes for trans* people to live...