Pope Meets With Trans Activists On “Doctrinal” Ban

Reuters reports:

Pope Francis faced calls to overturn the Catholic Church’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender people on Saturday when he held talks with LGBTQ activists at the Vatican.

The 80-minute meeting, held privately at the guesthouse where the pope lives, included a Catholic sister who works with LGBTQ people, a member of the transgender community, and a U.S. medical doctor who helps run a clinic providing gender-affirming hormonal care for adults.

The meeting with around a dozen LGBT activists comes six months after the Vatican’s doctrinal office “firmly rejected” gender-affirming care, saying it “risks threatening the unique dignity the person has received from the moment of conception”.

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