Trans Spiritual Care Initiative: A project of Sojourn Chaplaincy

Trans Spiritual Care Initiative: A project of Sojourn Chaplaincy

How do trans people in health care settings get the support they need?

The San Francisco General Hospital offers spiritual care services to its patients and staff that Sojourn Chaplaincy provides. Trans leaders worked with clergy from the Global Ministry Center (Church of the Nazarene) to develop new standards of gender-affirming care appropriate for transgender patients and staff. In 2017 they initiated a new service that never existed before. They began to recruit clergy and chaplains who were trained in gender diversity. These new gender-affirming recruits joined the project to accompany transgender patients and be their healthcare advocates. They called it the Transgender Spiritual Care Initiative (TSCI).

https://transspiritualcare.org/