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Forget all your binary oppositions about gender, sexuality, and religion as you read this post….
It has been two months since the Vatican’s Congregation for Catholic Education published the transgender- and intersex-negative document, Male and Female He Created Them. LGBTQ advocates and many theologians were quick to denounce the text, and a number of responses have been subsequently published. Today’s post excerpts several commentaries with links provided for further reading.
The Congregation for Catholic Education’s document on gender, Male and Female He Created Them, has continued to generate commentary and criticism. Today’s post highlights some of those reactions with links provided for further reading.
The Vatican’s new document on gender identity, “Male and Female He Created Them,” is a harmful tool that will be used to oppress and harm not only transgender people, but lesbian, gay, bisexual people, too. The document associates sexual and gender minorities with libertine sexuality, a gross misrepresentation of the lives of LGBT people which perpetuates and encourages hatred, bigotry, and violence against them.
In “Who’s Afraid of Gender?,” Butler offers their response to such critics in one of their most public and widely readable works, providing an insightful conversation partner for queer-affirming Catholics today.
Catholic educators are saving lives as they build communities of welcome for LGBTQ+ students despite some dioceses’ attempts to enact transgender-exclusionary policies.
The Diocese of Lafayette, Louisiana is implementing a new policy requiring students, parents, faculty, and staff at Catholic schools to wear clothing and use the pronouns of “each person’s God-given sexual identity and biological sex at birth.”
Signs of positive progress on LGBTQ issues are taking place in the Diocese of Davenport, Iowa, as church leaders work towards a deeper understanding of transgender people’s experiences.
Catholics have expressed their anger over the Diocese of Marquette’s new restrictions placed on LGBTQ people, which include prohibitions from the sacraments.