After Vatican text, pope tells Jeannine Gramick: Trans people ‘must be accepted’
Posted on May 6, 2024, by Loretto Community
Article by Jeannine Gramick SL, originally posted May 1, 2024 by the Global Sisters Report
I have been very sad since April 8, 2024, when the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith promulgated Dignitas Infinita, the Declaration on Human Dignity. I have felt the immense grief among LGBTQ people and their families and friends. This document states many beautiful and essential truths, but the section on Gender Theory, which condemns “gender ideology,” is harming the transgender people I love.
I wrote a note to Pope Francis to tell him about my sadness and my disappointment with the use of the concept, “gender ideology.” He responded by sharing his understanding of this idea—an understanding that I had not heard before.
Pope Francis wrote:
Gender ideology is something other than homosexual or transsexual people. Gender ideology makes everyone equal without respect for personal history. I understand the concern about that paragraph in Dignitas Infinita, but it refers not to transgender people but to gender ideology, which nullifies differences. Transgender people must be accepted and integrated into society.
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