Catholic Schools Have A New Gender Diversity Guide So Let’s Unstitch This BS Tapestry, Shall We?

In the biggest “disappointed and sickened but not surprised” revelation of the whole century, the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference (ACBC) has laid out new guidelines for how Catholic schools should treat their trans, non-binary and gender-diverse students. As you might expect, it’s fucked. The ACBC released Created & Loved on Tuesday, an ironically-titled 12-page guide

The Catholic school gender identity guidelines paint the growing number of gender-diverse kids as a “social trend”

The guide says gender and sex can’t be fully separated

The guide is against gender affirmative practices

There’s also your classic BS masquerading as concern about whether puberty blockers and hormones are unsafe and about whether young people can “consent” to those procedures. In fact, the effects of puberty blockers and hormone therapy are very safe and largely reversible.

The guide implies gender diversity is a product of trauma

The gender diversity guide says Catholic schools should avoid the words transgender and cisgender

So what happens in Catholic schools now?

told the AgeGhassan Kassisieh If you’d like to talk about the issues raised in this story, you can call the QLife LGBTQIA peer support hotline on 1800 184 527 or chat online. QLife operates between 3pm and midnight daily.Under 25? You can reach Kids Helplineat 1800 55 1800 or chat online.

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