Here are some potential resources for LGBTQAI+, Gender and Reproductive Rights issues.
UUA Resources
LGBTQAI+
Side With Love‘s UPLIFT Action site includes weekly Action Alerts that give updates on issues/concerns that we are following.
UUA‘s LGBTQ Welcome & Equality UUA. This website has links to UPLIFT sites and resources.
UU World Article on UPLIFT: “Get to Know UPLIFT, a UUA Welcoming Space for LGBTQIA+ People and Their Allies.”
UUSC‘s Pink Haven Coalition: Working for Trans Liberation Pt.1 and Pt. 2. Understanding the history of bigotry and state-sanctioned violence inflicted upon transgender and gender diverse people in the United States. Mutual Aid Against Hate: Pink Haven Coalition, How UUSC is mobilizing faith-rooted solidarity to protect trans lives.
UUSC‘s Resistance Network, a mobilization hub designed to take immediate action when civil liberties, democracy, and human rights are at risk. Join the network here.
TRUUsT – We are trans Unitarian Universalist religious professionals. We encompass many genders, races, ethnicities, abilities, classes, ages, and sexualities; we are diverse in terms of spiritual belief, practice, and ministry; and we understand our work for liberation as intimately tied to all efforts to dismantle oppression within Unitarian Universalism and our wider world.
Transforming Hearts Collective is a collective of UUs supporting spaces for LGBTQ people to access resilience, healing, and spirituality, and we resource faith communities and other groups for the work of radical inclusion and culture shift. This includes the self-directed, online course “Trans Inclusion in Congregations” and other materials.
Embracing Transgender, Nonbinary, Intersex and Gender Diverse People is a Fundamental Expression of UU Religious Values – 2024 Business Resolution. The resolution also lists other statements in UUA history concerning gender and reproductive rights issues.
Reproductive Justice
UUA Reproductive Justice As part of a liberatory Reproductive Justice movement, we affirm our commitment to building a world in which all people are able to make choices about their bodies, their health, and their families within safe, thriving communities.
Side with Love’s Reproductive Justice and Abortion Access provides links to resources including the Congregational Reproductive Justice Action Guide and the Unitarian Universalist Association Issue Guide: Abortion and Reproductive Justice.
UUA Reproductive Justice 2015 Statement of Conscience. “As Unitarian Universalists, we embrace the reproductive justice framework, which espouses the human right to have children, not to have children, to parent the children one has in healthy environments and to safeguard bodily autonomy and to express one’s sexuality freely . . .
UUA Abortion Rights. This list includes every page or product with this tag from UUA.org, UU World magazine, or inSpirit books & gifts.
Greater Community Resources
Pink Haven Coalition. We are a collective of organizations and individuals who are committed to trans liberation and joy and to growing community defense, mutual-aid, and alternative systems of care for gender diverse people.
SACReD is a national alliance of multiracial, multifaith, multiethnic, mixed gender and sexual identity religious leaders, congregations, movement organizations, activists, academics, and directly impacted communities collaborating to advance Reproductive Justice through congregational education, culture change, community building, and direct service.
Look for region, state and local chapters:
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR)
Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA)
Reproductive Freedom for All
Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)
Other Tools
LGBTQAI+
How To Testify for Trans Rights, (written guide)
Transgender Facts (written guide from the Mayo Clinic)
Spokesperson Training for Trans Advocacy (1/1/2 hour webinar)
Mapping Attacks on LGBTQ Rights Legislation (ACLU website)
The Fixation on Anti-Trans Legislation (podcast)
Navigating LGBTQ+ Rights (YouTube video)
Responding to the Anti-Trans Movement (3 session educational program through the Transforming Hearts Collective)
Stories of Intersex and Faith (documentary, $4.99)
Donate: Pink Haven
Reproductive Justice
Congregational Reproductive Justice Action Guide (written guide)
SACReD: Spiritual Alliance of Communities for Reproductive Equality offers a reproductive justice curriculum for adults (this can also be accessed through the UU Women’s Federation).
Unitarian Universalist Association Issue Guide: Abortion and Reproductive Justice (written)
Reproductive Justice and Faith in Action (webinar, 1 hour)
Reproductive Justice Toolkit (written guide from UU Women’s Federation)
Under G-D (PBS movie, 24 minutes)
The Criminalization of Pregnancy Outcomes; (1 hour webinar)
Volunteer or donate with Planned Parenthood
Safety
There is growing concern about increased surveillance of personal information, and evidence that our social and personal communications can be monitored readily. Because of this, those most at risk of legal proceedings urge us to use encrypted forms of communication, especially when communicating with them. Please consider using Signal as an alternative for texting and video-calling people when it relates to sensitive information and organizing.
How To Be Safe While Using Signal (written guide)
Surveillance Self Defense: How To Use Signal (written guide)
How Americans are Surveilled During Protests (video)