fwiw, the church copeland belonged to was part of the alabama cooperative baptist fellowship. I searched them to see if there were rancid anti-trans remarks from them and didn't find anything from the specific church copeland was a pastor at, but these two articles showed up

https://baptistnews.com/article/cbf-church-booted-from-southern-baptist-association-for-embracing-lgbtq-members/ - a CBF church in georgia getting kicked out of some other baptist group for welcoming lgbt members

https://www.christianpost.com/news/cbf-church-ordains-first-known-transgender-pastor-in-its-history.html - a CBF church in indiana having a trans pastor