Pope Urged to Reverse Church Ban on Gender-Affirming Care
thegavoice.comIn a highly unusual private meeting at the Vatican on Oct. 13, Pope Francis met with LGBTQ+ Catholics to discuss the Catholic Church ban on gender-affirming care for trans people.
Reuters was the sole news service to report the event which purportedly lasted 80 minutes and was not listed on the Vatican’s official agenda of Pope Francis’s meetings for that day.
Francis has faced numerous requests to overturn the ban. The talks with LGBTQ+ activists were held privately at the guesthouse where the pope lives.
Among those in attendance were a Catholic nun who works with LGBTQ+ people, an American trans man and an American medical doctor who helps run a clinic providing gender-affirming care for adults. “I really wanted to share with Pope Francis about the joy that I have being a transgender Catholic person,” Michael Sennett, who took part in the meeting, told Reuters.
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