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.
I know Dave Chapelle is a shithead now, but I can’t help but think of the Chapelle Show sketch about the blind black Klansman who doesn’t know he’s black.
@ImADifferentBird @gimpchrist
Kanye West is an openly black white supremacist and he is not the first. The first openly black white supremacist was a person named William Hannibal Thomas, who wrote The American Negro in 1901, a loathsome work that was so derogatory towards blacks that white supremacists of that time used his writings to support their claims about the inferiority of blacks.
Didn’t know about WH Thomas. History is full of strange people, I suppose.
Dave’s not a shithead. Watch the specials. He doesn’t say any of the things he’s accused of - in context.
People who don’t watch the specials are who are up in arms about it. (not to make this a is-he-or-isn’t-he subthread)
I wanted to make this point but I’ve been ruthlessly downvoted and now I don’t want to talk at all on news posts haha so thanks for bringing that part up