Gender Spectrum Worship Sharing & Discussion

On Sunday, March 8 at 12:30 in the Meeting House, the Peace and Social Justice Committee invites you to a Gender Spectrum Worship Sharing and Discussion. This is an empathy-based, query-driven session designed to help participants understand the experience of being a gender and sexual minority and to better appreciate what these individuals might need from the community. In these times of polarization and sensitivity, we hope to create a safe space to allow people to ask questions, stumble, and be wrong where they will not be judged.

• This event supports our ongoing “commit[ment] to deepening our understanding… of trans, nonbinary, and gender expansive individuals and communities,” as stated in our Minute from July 2025 (see https://www.bethesdafriends.org/Belief-Statements-(Minutes).
• It will be led by Danielle Carnes, a member of Friends Meeting of Washington who served with the U.S. Agency for International Development from 2016 to July 2025. She has worked to improve the lives of trans people around the world and to help advance understanding of empathy and gender diverse communities.