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Gender & Sexual Identity

Throughout our lives as we explore the world around us, we also discover elements of ourselves.  For the LGBTIQ community the process of coming out, transitioning and experimenting with gender and sexual identity may come with public or private struggles for acceptance, some which may be difficult or painful. Through ritual we can honor the range of emotions and experiences along this journey, support each other to become our true and best selves, and celebrate what makes each of us special and unique.

Photo courtesy of Malka Packer

Quick Tips for Transgender Allies

A helpful guide from our friends at TransfaithOnline that includes quick tips for transgender allies [more]

Found In: Gender Transitioning

Tags: LGBTIQ

Prayer for Making First Decisions About Gender for a Child

Prayer for Jewish parents as they name, welcome, and make first decisions about gender for their child [more]

Found In: Covenant & Naming Rituals, Gender & Sexual Identity

Tags: LGBTIQ, naming, welcoming

On Coming Out

A prayer for coming out and coming home [more]

Found In: Coming Out

Tags: LGBTIQ

Transgender prayer

Praying for the courage to be me [more]

Found In: Pursuing Justice, Gender & Sexual Identity

Tags: LGBTIQ

Tu B’Av ritual to celebrate transgender transition

A ritual to mark gender transition and celebrate freedom [more]

Found In: Gender Transitioning, Jewish Day of Love: Tu B'Av

Tags: LGBTIQ, shehekheyanu

Blessings for Gender Transitioning

For name or pronoun changes, coming out to loved ones, or moments of physical transition [more]

Found In: Gender Transitioning

Tags: LGBTIQ, shehekheyanu

Ritual for Gender Transition (Male to Female)

Complete ceremony in which the family of the person transitioning welcomes their loved one into their hearts [more]

Found In: Gender Transitioning

Tags: LGBTIQ, shehekheyanu

Seder Lichvod Yetzi'at Meitzarim

A coming-out ceremony based upon the Passover seder to celebrate and honor liberation from the mitzrayim (narrow places) of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender secrecy [more]

Found In: Coming Out , Theme Seders

Tags: LGBTIQ, mi sheberakh

Brit Hitvada'ut: Covenant of Coming Out

A ceremony commissioned by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation for Coming Out Day, October 11, 2006 [more]

Found In: Coming Out

Tags: LGBTIQ, mi sheberakh, mikveh, shehekheyanu

A Coming Out Prayer for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People and Those Who Love Them

A prayer for National Coming Out Day [more]

Found In: Coming Out

Tags: LGBTIQ