Gender Dysphoria

Catholic College Fully Embraces LGBTQ+ Students’ Needs

Sacred Heart University in Connecticut is one of a few Catholic institutions to establish an LGBTQ+ students’ center and hire a manager of LGBTQ+ affairs. By Jessica Blake, Inside Higher Ed, January 12, 2024 Students and a chaplain at Sacred Heart University celebrated Coming Out Day... read more

Female boxer learns at last moment her opponent’s manhood was kept a secret, drops out of women’s competition

By Joseph MacKinnon, Blaze Media, November 16, 2023 An Australian transvestite won a Canadian women's boxing competition in Quebec by default in late October because his 36-year-old female opponent, Dr. Katia Bissonnette, refused to fight a man. The 2023 Provincial Golden Glove... read more

‘Transgender’ Baptisms? Sorting Out the Vatican’s Recent Statement

COMMENTARY: It is critically important to carefully read the Dicastery of the Doctrine of the Faith’s answers to Bishop Negri’s questions in context — and to ignore silly headlines from media sources that do not understand Catholic teaching. By John Bursch, National Catholic Register,... read more

Pope Francis Meets With U.S. LGBT Group New Ways Ministry Previously Denounced by Vatican

None of the Holy Father’s comments in the meeting were reported in the organization’s statement. By Joe Bukuras/CNA, October 18, 2023 Pope Francis met Tuesday at his residence with leadership from the U.S. LGBT organization New Ways Ministry, which was previously denounced by both the... read more

80k employees of Biden’s HHS are now forced to use transgender pronouns

‘HHS today imposed a transgender pronoun mandate on its employees who will now be forced to deny biological realities with their own words or face firing,' wrote Roger Severino, a former director of the HHS Office for Civil Rights.  By Doug Mainwaring, LifeSite News, October 13, 2023... read more

A Japanese court rules it’s unconstitutional to require surgery for a change of gender on documents

By Mari Yamaguchi, AP, October 12, 2023 TOKYO (AP) — A court in central Japan ruled Thursday that it is unconstitutional to require a transgender person to undergo surgery to remove their current reproductive organs in order for them to receive documentation under their new gender. The... read more

The Pro-Trans Medical Establishment Does the Very Thing It Falsely Accuses Conservatives of Doing

By Tyler O'Neil, Daily Signal, August 4, 2023 Tyler O'Neil is managing editor of The Daily Signal and the author of "Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center." Transgender activists often claim that when their opponents want to outlaw medical... read more

European Countries’ Restrictions on Gender Treatment for Minors Contrasts Sharply With US Push

Citing serious health risks and a lack of supporting evidence, Sweden, France and England have all adopted a more critical stance toward ‘gender affirming care’ for youth — a stark difference to the approach taken in many US states and cultural institutions. By Benedicte Cedergren,... read more

Portland-area Catholic schools are at a crossroads over transgender, nonbinary student rights

By Julia Sullivan, The Oregonian/Oregon Live, June 26, 2023 Hundreds of Portland area families whose children attend Catholic schools are protesting western Oregon Archbishop Alexander Sample’s guidance that schools under the church’s umbrella not recognize transgender... read more

U.S. bishops approve plan for guidance to health care institutions on transgender issues

By Lauretta Brown, Ctholic News Agency, June 16, 2023 The U.S. bishops voted Friday to move forward with a significant revision to their document offering guidance to Catholic health care institutions on the issue of transgender surgeries and hormone treatments, and their incompatibility... read more

LGBTQ+ May Seem New, but It Grew From an Old Ideology

COMMENTARY: The ideas underpinning our societal wreckage are much older than most of us realize. The blueprint for it was set centuries ago, going back to the earliest stages of the feminist movement ... By Carrie Gress, National Catholic Register, June 6, 2023 The LGBTQ+ movement has made... read more