What happened?
the vatican’s education department has issued a new document on gender issues, saying that the trend towards transgender identity amounts to “a cultural and ideological revolution driven by relativism”. The document also notes that this new ideology, which rejects “male-female duality”, is reshaping laws.
The document urges states to respect parents’ rights, and says Catholic schools should “maintain their own vision of human sexuality”.
What the media said
the document, entitled “Male and Female he Created Them”, was not signed by Pope Francis, but rather by Cardinal Giuseppe Versaldi, the prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education, and the cardinal’s second-in-command. However, it quotes from Francis and other popes, and was greeted as a major statement of Vatican policy. A typical headline was the Washington Post’s: “Vatican says people can’t choose their genders”.
