Gender diversity has been part of the Catholic Church since the very beginning, as saints and key Catholic figures lived as what we would today call nonbinary or trans to mirror a God who supersedes all human constructs.

I kept reading and the article is getting worse, wtf.

Francis argued that economic aid provided by richer countries or international agencies was tied to the acceptance of "Western views of sexuality, marriage, life, or social justice."

But in many instances, this is markedly untrue and rejects the history of patriarchal and sexist colonizers. Western colonizers have historically forced patriarchal and queerphobic gender ideologies onto Indigenous communities around the world. The Catholic Church has been instrumental in these changes, so to argue that the church is somehow separate or fighting "ideological colonization" flatly contradicts church history.

How can you read that this is in response to the latest Declaration from what was formerly the Holy Office, that this piece and more like it are crying and whining about the mean ol' Church denying LGBT++++ people a place, and then come away thinking "Okay, the pope says everyone is trans now"?

>@stillgray

>r-slurred

The latest nonsense I've seen about this has been St. Joan of Arc, with the usual lunatics trying to claim that since she wore male clothing, she was really a trans man.

Reminds me of some r-slurred plaque that got added to a traveling exhibit at a museum here in chicago. The exhibit was about ancient kings of europe (generally from eastern europe circa like no later than 300BC). There was one burial featured that was odd because it contained a woman's skeleton, but the burial had items typical of a male like a large battleaxe.

An obvious conclusion is that this woman might have been some kind of warrior or at least liked these items, or the others in her community associated these items with her.

However our museum added a plaque to the exhibit (which was on loan from some museum in europe) that mentioned that the person may have been trans.

heres 5: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/12/5-saints-reveal-surprising-history-transgender-acceptance-early-christianity/

these people are absolutely insane lol trying to claim st Perpetua becuase she had a dream where she was a man.