Transgender Catholics — as well as a priest who welcomes them to his parish — expressed disappointment Monday with a new Vatican document rejecting the fundamental concept of changing one’s biological sex.
In essence, it was a restatement of longstanding Catholic teaching, but the dismay was heightened because recent moves by Pope Francis had encouraged some trans Catholics to hope the church might become more accepting.
The pope has welcomed a community of transgender women to his weekly general audiences. And last year, the Vatican said it’s permissible, under certain circumstances, for trans people to be baptized as Catholics and serve as godparents.
“A document like this is very hurtful to the larger LGBTQ+ community but especially to the trans community,” said Maxwell Kuzma, 32, a lifelong Catholic transgender man working as a film editor and writer in rural Ohio.
To be fair (🎵to be faiiiiiiiiiirr . . ) Jesus never said anything about trans people, and the Talmud (which Jesus was ostensibly a big fan of) has eight - count 'em eight - specific genders already specified and ready to go.
So really it’s the Catholic Church who’s not understanding - very possibly intentionally. But there we go. SSDD.
FWIW I think Francis got a good old fashioned political situation handed to him and, for whatever it was worth to him, caved.
Sauce
That seems like a pretty definitive mic drop on the matter
But they’re choosing to follow the Catholic Church by being Catholic, so the point still stands.
Not to say that the life view of any ancient peoples are wholy applicable to modern life but holy shit based