An online community dedicated to the spiritual care, faith formation, and leadership potential of transgender and gender-expansive Christians.

We Want Gender-Expansive Christians to Feel

Grounded

Whether you’ve just started thinking about your gender, or you’ve been out for decades; whether you’re a cradle Christian or you’re just curious about faith—we’re all on a learning journey. Let’s learn together, and get grounded in our identities as people who are loved by God not in spite of who we are, but because of who we are.

Connected

Sometimes it’s hard to talk about faith in LGBTQI2A spaces, and hard to talk about gender in Christian spaces. You might feel like the only person dealing with this stuff, but so many of your siblings are in the same boat! At TMC we share stories, resources, and hope so that nobody has to sail alone.

Empowered

One of the central tenets of Christian faith is a love for our neighbor. We’re not meant to focus on ourselves all the time! Gender-expansive Christians are blessed, and we’re called to pass that blessing on to the rest of the world. We empower each other to act for justice and peace.

Transmission Ministry Collective believes that people of all gender identities and expressions are fully loved by God and should be supported at every level by their Christian siblings.

Rather than merely seeking to treat our neighbor as we want to be treated, we want to treat our neighbor as they want to be treated. We believe that God made humans co-creators and stewards of creation, and therefore the ways in which trans and gender-expansive people may choose to steward their bodies through medical and/or social transition constitutes faithful action. We value the fact that people in our community have different ideas and understandings related to identity, expression, and transition, and at the same time Transmission Ministry Collective as an organization will always advocate for every individual’s right to self-identify and to choose any processes which bring them into alignment with themselves.

Our Values

Rooted In Scripture

Even though many of us have a complicated relationship with the Bible, we still value it as a common table for all to gather around. We ground ourselves in scripture’s revelation of God’s love for us.

Centered on Gender-Expansive People

We prioritize the safety, health, flourishing, and gifts of those who identify as transgender, nonbinary, genderqueer, gender-expansive, or as people of transgender experience. Even though this is our center, we also seek to provide groups and learning opportunities for cisgender family and friends.

Oneness, Not Sameness

We are complex people with many different identities, and we should be able to bring our entire selves into the room. As a community, we seek wholeness while also valuing our differences. We’re not here for assimilation or whitewashing—we’re here to be the brilliant, distinct pieces in a collective mosaic.

Blessed to be a Blessing

Gender-expansive people are blessed with a multitude of gifts and talents, and we can’t keep them to ourselves! We are called to be a blessing to the rest of the church, and to the world.

Interaction Over Consumption

Why just watch and read things when you could jump in, participate, and make something new? We encourage ourselves and others to create, speak up, share, and dream out loud.

Resilience and Restoration

Being in community is hard sometimes. We disagree, we fight, we get hurt, we hurt others. This is part of being human, and figuring out how to work together. But we seek to foster resilience in our community, so that we can set boundaries, learn how to apologize, how to make amends, and how to restore wholeness.