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New Policy Threatens to Expel Transgender Students from Catholic School

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Yesterday, Bondings 2.0 featured the story of a Catholic school that denied re-enrollment to transgender student. Today, there are two more stories of how Catholic schools are failing to provide for their LGBTQ students. Read More

Diocese Instructs Catholics to Ignore Transgender People’s Names and Pronouns

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A bishop in Virginia has released a new document on gender identity issues that, among other problematic issues, demands Catholics not use transgender people's correct names and pronouns. Read More

Parramatta Bishop Issues Pastoral Letter Against Proposed Anti-Transgender Law

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A bishop in New South Wales, Australia, has issued a pastoral letter opposing a proposed law that would ban discussions of gender diversity in school classrooms. The letter splits from that state's main Catholic education body, which has expressed its support of the bill. Read More

Catholics Nationwide Reject Lansing Diocese’s New Transgender-Negative Policy

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The Diocese of Lansing's new policy on gender identity continues to generate strong opposition from community members, as well as national faith-based organizations. Read More

Michigan Diocese Releases New Transgender-Negative Policy for Catholic Agencies

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The Diocese of Lansing, Michigan, has released a new policy on gender identity that requires all of its agencies to acknowledge only a person’s assigned sex at birth.  Read More

University of Notre Dame Adds “Gender Identity” to Anti-Harassment Policies

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The University of Notre Dame recently added “gender identity” to a list of protected categories in its policies on discriminatory harassment, sexual harassment, and other sex-based misconduct. Read More

New Survey Reveals 40% of Australian Catholics Believe There Are More Than Two Genders

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Forty percent of Australian Catholics believe there are more than two genders, according to results from a new study. Read More

Transgender Advocate Sr. Luisa Derouen Criticizes Bishop Paprocki’s New Gender Policy

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Sr. Luisa Derouen, a member of the Dominican Sisters of Peace and long time spiritual companion to transgender people, has published an essay reacting to Bishop Thomas Paprocki’s controversial, transphobic policy published in January. Read More

Minnesota Bishops’ Anti-Transgender School Policy Lacks Science, Theological Imagination

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Bishops in Minnesota have adopted anti-transgender policies for Catholic schools in their dioceses that will continue to marginalize and harm the well-being of transgender students. Read More

Top Feminist Theologian Criticizes India’s New Transgender Law from Catholic Perspective

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An op-ed in "Matters India" by Virginia Saldhana, aprominent Catholic lay theologian and former secretary of the Federation of Asian Catholic Bishops' Conferences' Office of Laity, Family, and Women, discusses India’s Transgender Persons Law passed in November. Read More