President Obama had appointed a transgender individual to serve on the Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, according to Breitbart.
Barbara Satin, a Catholic transgender woman, stated, “I am both honored
and humbled to be selected to serve on the President’s advisory
council,” Satin said. “Given the current political climate, I believe
it’s important that a voice of faith representing the transgender and
gender non-conforming community—as well as a person of my years, nearly
82—be present and heard in these vital conversations.”
The White House’s official announcement of Satin’s appointment states:
Barbara Satin is the Assistant Faith Work Director for the National
LGBTQ Task Force. She is an active member of the United Church of
Christ and served on the denomination’s Executive Council as its first
openly transgender member. Ms. Satin recently worked on the development
of Spirit on Lake, a LGBTQ senior housing project in Minneapolis. She
served on the Board of Directors for OutFront Minnesota from 2001 to
2008 and has served as Chair of GLBT Generations since 1999. She has
also served on the Board of Directors of PFund Foundation, a regional
LGBTQ community foundation advancing social justice in Iowa, Minnesota,
North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin, since 2013.
In an interview with LGBT Religious Archives Network, Satin said that
she was raised “as a boy” in a Catholic family. She struggled with her
gender identity throughout her younger years. She attended a Catholic
college and also served in the U.S. Air Force. While still identifying
as a male, Satin married and had three children.
In later years, Satin began to more fully explore her transgender
identity. She said she chose the name “Barbara Satin” because “Barbara
was the name of the first girl that I felt attracted to, and Satin is
the fabric of my life.”
Although identifying as a woman, Satin has never undergone medical or surgical treatment to become more like a woman.
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