The Needham Human Rights Committee spent part of its meeting on community-education plans that could run alongside its advocacy work, including a transgender-awareness program, a proposal to pilot a Human Library and interest in a constitutional-education speaker.

Tina and other committee members described plans for a community event focused on transgender experiences and current policy ramifications. Committee organizers said they hoped to include legal context and perspectives from local youth groups: ‘‘we definitely want a legal perspective, ramifications of that, and how people are feeling about that here,’’ a committee member said, and they named the Queer Student Union and local PFLAG contacts as potential partners. Members suggested the program be framed for the whole community and coordinated with the high school and community groups.

A committee member proposed piloting a Human Library—a format in which attendees reserve short conversations with volunteers who volunteer as “living books” to share personal experiences. Members said the Human Library model could advance mutual understanding and serve mental-health and elder-inclusion goals; the concept would require coordination with the Needham Public Library and a volunteer roster and training.

Separately, members flagged a potential civic-education event: a retired judge who runs constitutional-education talks was reported to be available locally in September; committee members suggested the group could attend that session and then consider co-sponsoring a townwide presentation in partnership with adult-learning or religious institutions.

Next steps: committee members asked volunteers to collect program details and training requirements for a Human Library pilot and for the transgender-awareness event; staff agreed to help identify scheduling windows and to consider modest speaker fees in the committee’s budget planning.