"She began: "I am inviting you to join me in a season of creative transformation for myself, and, I think, for all of us." Phaneuf then shared a medical analogy: "Imagine if your doctor came and told you that your quality and outlook on life could transform exponentially to the positive. Would you listen to that doctor? If you felt God's Holy Spirit surrounding you in ways that you haven't felt in years, would you have a sense that that might be something that God was okay with? Yeah.""
""The best way to put this is that I'm not becoming a woman, I'm giving up pretending to be a man," she said. "This is gonna be shocking for some of us, as to what this all means. But this is where we invite God's Holy Spirit to grant us grace and peace.""
"She then went on to share that she's been receiving hormone replacement therapy for the past three months, adding that it has led her to feel "truly happy for the first time in a long time". Phaneuf emphasised that her transition wouldn't change her devotion to the ministry, or her personality. But a welcome change, she shared, would be that the church could become "known within the community as an even safer space for people who have felt marginalized.""
Phillippa Phaneuf, a Methodist pastor at North Chili United Methodist Church in Rochester, publicly came out as a trans woman during a morning worship service. She invited the congregation into a season of creative transformation and used a medical analogy to describe the positive impact on her life. Phaneuf said she is not becoming a woman but stopping pretending to be a man, and shared that three months of hormone replacement therapy have made her feel truly happy. She affirmed that her ministry devotion and personality remain unchanged and said the church can become a safer space for marginalized people.
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