Minnesota Catholic bishops issue guidelines on transgenderism in Catholic schools in accord with Catholic teaching

[mdgspencer]

see New guidelines for Catholic schools affirm students’ sexual identity as biological sex, opposing gender theory - TheCatholicSpirit.com : TheCatholicSpirit.com

According to these guidelines for Catholic schools, Catholic educators have a charge to teach that a person’s sexual identity is a gift from God that cannot change, and resist cultural tides toward “gender theory”

Bishop Cozzens emphasized that when parents send their children to Catholic schools, they expect the schools to help them raise their children according to the truth, and that includes their God-created identity as his sons and daughters made in his image

 

[vsedriver]

the comments on this article are interesting.

 

[HomeschoolDad]

see https://thecatholicspirit.com/news/local-news/new-guidelines-for-catholic-schools-affirm-students-sexual-identity-as-biological-sex-opposing-gender-theory/

According to these guidelines for Catholic schools, Catholic educators have a charge to teach that a person’s sexual identity is a gift from God that cannot change, and resist cultural tides toward “gender theory”

Bishop Cozzens emphasized that when parents send their children to Catholic schools, they expect the schools to help them raise their children according to the truth, and that includes their God-created identity as his sons and daughters made in his image

This is all well and good, but I would hope that school personnel would have compassion and understanding for those students who, for whatever reason, have gender dysphoria. I do not, and cannot, endorse medical or surgical treatment to attempt to change one’s gender, and I cannot endorse same-sex intimacy, but I think we have to take troubled young people at their word, when they are telling us they have a problem reconciling their physical gender with how they feel and how they see themselves. I would hope that these schools have competent counselors in place, or could refer the students to one. And I say this as a Catholic who is unalterably, uncompromisingly devoted to traditional sexual morality and the distinction of gender roles. People are what they are.

 

[otjm]

The only problem with the schools being able to handle the issue is that few if any will have a psychologist or psychiatrist on staff. One would hope that compassion would be strong; and while the bishop has made public where the schools re to stand, that does not of necessity deal with either an older student or an adamant set of parents taking umbrage.

So far it appears that the Church, in making clear issues, for example, of teachers with SSA having a partner or engaging in a State sanctioned ceremony being subject to dismissal per contract terms, it is getting to the point that lawsuits against the school(s) and the diocese will keep attorneys busy, and the finance committee(s) scrambling.

 

[gama232]

That is only an assumption. Students who experience gender dysphoria are going to be minors whose parents should counsel or get counseling for them, as appropriate. People are who they are. However, the issue should be handled in an appropriate manner, which the Minnesota Catholic bishops are doing.