From Patheos-There are liturgies that go with birth, coming of age, getting married, and dying. Now it is being proposed to develop a liturgy to mark gender transitions.
The Church of England has voted to affirm transgendered individuals and to study developing a liturgy that would solemnize the decision or medical procedures whereby a man assumes a new identity as a woman, or a woman assumes a new identity as a man.
This would seem to stop short of re-baptism, as some transgender activists have called for.
This could go along with other liturgies for contemporary culture. Some churches offer divorce ceremonies. What other occasions might call for a liturgical blessing from liberal churches?
More here-
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/geneveith/2017/07/liturgy-for-transgender-transitions-draft/
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