Web Sites We Find Helpful

Catholic:

https://www.holyfamilyparish.org/pastoral-care/services/one-in-love-lgbt-ministry/​    

  2015 Lay Committee Research Paper (submitted to Archdiocese & Synod): Deep insights into relationships

     https://www.holyfamilyparish.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/LGBT-Position-Paper-Final.pdf

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https://catholiccommunitiesofoakpark.org/lgbtq-catholics  has extensive resource links

https://fortunatefamilies.com/

https://outreach.faith/

   Dealing with coming Home for the Holidays:

https://outreach.faith/2024/11/a-guided-prayer-for-lgbtq-catholics-struggling-through-the-holidays/

Coming Out: Notre Dame Student's journey: https://outreach.faith/2025/10/how-a-coming-out-day-prayer-service-strengthened-a-notre-dame-students-faith/

Stations of the Cross: Search Me: A Way of the Cross in Solidarity with the LGBTQ Community. by John Kyler 

    https://outreach.faith/2025/03/a-stations-of-the-cross-drawing-from-the-lgbtq-catholic-experience/

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    Correct Interpretation of the Bible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEuDUTrIH-4

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    Catholic Mother of a Trans child:  https://outreach.faith/2025/06/how-the-catholic-mother-of-a-trans-child-learned-to-trust-in-gods-plan/

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    Pope Leo meets with Fr James Martin, SJ:  https://outreach.faith/2025/09/father-james-martin-pope-leos-message-for-lgbtq-catholics/

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https://www.newwaysministry.org/

    LGBTQ Friendly Parishes:  https://www.newwaysministry.org/resources/parishes/#toggle-id-11

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https://aglochicago.org/  Archdiocesan Outreach since 1988. 7pm Sunday Masses 708 W Belmont Ave, Chicago

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​Podcasts:

New Ways Ministry: "One Body, Many Parts"  https://www.newwaysministry.org/podcast-page/

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Ignatian Justice Podcast: https://ignatiansolidarity.net/voices-for-justice-podcast/

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The Spiritual Life (host: Fr James Martin)   https://megaphone.link/AMMD8637912311 

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Papal Teaching on correcting Transgender mismatch:

    Dignitas Infinita Pope Francis, 8/4/2024: paragraph 60

     "Pope Francis affirmed that “creation is prior to us and must be received as a gift. At the same time, we are called to protect our humanity, and this means, in the first place, accepting it and respecting it as it was created.”[109] It follows that any sex-change intervention, as a rule, risks threatening the unique dignity the person has received from the moment of conception. This is not to exclude the possibility that a person with genital abnormalities that are already evident at birth or that develop later may choose to receive the assistance of healthcare professionals to resolve these abnormalities. However, in this case, such a medical procedure would not constitute a sex change in the sense intended here."

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All Religions:

https://familyproject.sfsu.edu/ = help for parents to accept their LGBTQ children; very multi-cultural

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Secular:

Biology of Gender & History of Transgender, Dr Kate Rohr  https://youtu.be/1zqx9Dev5vk

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https://realmommabears.org

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https://5calls.org/  (site to help you contact your Congress person)

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TED Talks/YouTube on Transgender:

• “How to Talk (and listen) to Transgender People” by Jackson Bird

•      https://www.ted.com/talks/jackson_bird_how_to_talk_and_listen_to_transgender_people

• “Is Anatomy Destiny?” by Alice Dreger - https://www.ted.com/talks/alice_dreger_is_anatomy_destiny

• “The Science of Being Transgender” - https://open.spotify.com/episode/6Ft9HunKBhXgRdLkdO4QLq

• “The Weird History of the Sex Chromosomes”,Molly Webster - 

•           https://www.ted.com/talks/molly_webster_the_weird_history_of_the_sex_chromosomes

• “Time to Blossom: Accepting My Transgender Daughter", Elizabeth August

•           - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LTaBGDrw4M

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