Comments on: Transgender Student’s Identity Meets With Opposition at Catholic High School

By: The Worst of 2012 in Catholic LGBT News « Bondings 2.0

The Worst of 2012 in Catholic LGBT News « Bondings 2.0 — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 12:00:20 +0000

[...] Catholic high school in Indianapolis refuses to call a female-to-male transgender student by his male [...]

By: Margaret

Margaret — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 13:59:55 +0000

One of my best friends goes to Cathedral and knows this guy! I support him and anyone in his situation!

By: Rita

Rita — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 16:44:57 +0000

My son is transgender and we obtained advice from priests regarding his upcoming sex change operations. They replied that, absolutely go ahead, there are no teachings regarding transgendered or intersexed people in the bible or in Church law. My son was born with body parts from both sexes but, they were internal and not visible until he had major surgery as a teenager. He realized this was why he had always felt like he was in the wrong body and should have been born a man. However, even without visible differences, autopsies on many gay men have shown that their brains are often ‘wired’ more like the female brain (and there are many differences). Therefore, I believe the Church’s teachings on homosexuality are wrong and that they have no business judging something they can’t see and don’t understand. the sciences of sexuality, psychology, neurology and psychiatry have evolved beyond the Church’s current ability to keep up evidently. Much like when they imprisoned Galileo for life for proving the Earth does indeed revolve around the sun. The Church couldn’t accept reality because it disagreed with their current interpretation of the Bible. A couple hundred years later, Pope John Paul II found himself apologizing for this massive miscarriage of justice. I don’t feel gay people should have to wait imprisoned in celibate loneliness for another couple hundred years while they wait for the Church to once again apologize for the misery it put them through..

By: Tim MacGeorge

Tim MacGeorge — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:52:58 +0000

Frank and Anne — I was just about to make the exact same comment: It’s only by truly being aware of our own and openly listening to others’ experience that we come to the know Truth. Either we believe that God is at work in human lives or we don’t. If we do, then the lived experience of God’s children must be seen and respected for what it is.

By: Anne Underwood

Anne Underwood — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 11:07:45 +0000

Francis — your last paragraph says it all: listen before judging —- and after listening, demonstrate Jesus’ all-inclusive love. When was the last time we had a hierarch do either?