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Monthly Archives: June 2007

UMC Phoenix Precedent and Sexual Identity Change

Transsexual Minister in Baltimore is Approved by the United Methodist Church: “The United Methodist bishop of the Baltimore-Washington Conference has reappointed a female minister who underwent a sex-change operation and now goes by the name of ‘Drew Phoenix.’ Ann Gordon, aka ‘Drew Phoenix,’ is the first openly transsexual minister in the United Methodist Church and one of the very few publicly transsexual clergy in the U.S. Her reappointment to St. John’s UMC in Baltimore is effective July 1.”