The Huffington Post website reports today (July 10, 2012) that the Episcopal Church voted yesterday to allow the ordination of transgender people.
At a General Convention in Indianapolis, the church's House of Deputies approved a change to the "nondiscrimination canons" to include "gender identity aid expression."
The move makes it illegal to bar from the priesthood people who were born into one gender and live as another, or who do not identify themselves as male or female.
The Episcopal Church -- which has 1.9 million members in the United States -- has rules against discrimination based on race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, disability, and age for Episcopalians who want to become priests.
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