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Pope Francis reaffirmed his disagreement with teaching gender identity in schools on Sunday, after earlier calling it a "war against marriage." On a return flight to Rome at the end of a three-day trip to Georgia and Azerbaijan , the Pope recounted a meeting with a French father whose young son wanted to be a girl after reading about it in a textbook. "This is against nature," he said. "It is one thing when someone has this tendency ... and it is another matter to teach this in school." "To change the mentality -- I call this ideological colonization," the Pope said. The Pope said he still spends time with transgender people, leading them closer to God. In August , the Pope called the teaching of gender identity theory "terrible." "Today, in schools they are teaching this to children -- to children! -- that everyone can choose their gender," Pope Francis said. New Ways Ministry , a Catholic LGBT advocacy group, c

While the nation is mulling its reaction to President Obama's   new federal guidance   requiring all public schools to allow members of one biological sex to use the restrooms of the opposite sex, one school superintendent in Texas knows exactly what to do with it: Put it in the shredder. Dr. Rodney Cavness, superintendent in Port Neches, Texas , said Thursday night that the forthcoming letter, released Friday morning, would have a special place in his office. “That letter is going straight to the paper shredder ,” he said. "I have five daughters myself and I have 2,500 girls in my protection. Their moms and dads expect me to protect them, and that is what I am going to do.” The federal guidance and an accompanying 25-page document of proposed policies require that biological males who tell school officials they are transgender must be allowed to use the girls' showers and locker rooms , or the schools could face a federal civil rights lawsuit and lose all

Girls need to get over the “discomfort” they may feel at seeing male genitalia in the locker room, the editorial board of one of North Carolina’s largest newspapers wrote in a piece supporting the Obama administration ’s transgender school facilities edict. The Obama administration’s threat to withhold federal funding from schools that don’t allow males to share restrooms, locker rooms, showers, and hotel rooms with females “is sure to bring more heat to the bathroom debate, but eventually the decree should have the opposite effect,” the Charlotte Observer editorial board wrote. “It will bring acceptance, as these measures do, by showing that the answer to what happens in bathrooms is a lot less fearsome than the question.” “Yes, the thought of male genitalia in girls’ locker rooms – and vice versa – might be distressing to some,” the editorial board continued. “But the battle for equality has always been in part about overcoming discomfort – with blacks sharing facilities

For all the justifiable press coverage of Barack Obama's federal guidance on  transgender students in the public schools, its most dangerous provision has largely gone unnoticed – and it has nothing to do with bathrooms.  The most outrageous provision of his transgender bathroom order does not even involve locker rooms , where teenagers of the opposite sex will change and shower next to one another.  The most offensive part of the new policy is that, under the Obama administration 's federal guidance: ·          School districts must allow biological males and females to spend the night together in the same hotel room on field trips ; ·          Colleges must let men who say they are transgender be roommates with one or more women; and ·          School officials cannot even tell those young women or their parents in advance that their new roommate is a man, without risking a federal lawsuit. The plain wording of the Obama administration's   diktat   is c

The legal backlash against President Obama's transgender restroom policy in public schools and universities has begun. Last Friday, the Obama administration sent a “dear colleague” letter to the nation's educational leaders saying that, under the president's interpretation of Title IX , schools must open their restrooms, showers, and intimate facilities to members of the opposite sex who identify as transgender. Although the federal guidance does not have the standing of law, it carries the implicit threat that schools that do not comply will lose all federal funding. Today, Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry said the order lacks not just the force of law, but any constitutional standing or common sense. In his own   letter   to state educational leaders, Landry said he wrote “to reassure” them that he “will vigorously defend the state and its citizens from unlawful action threatened on the basis of this incorrect interpretation of law.” “ President O

Despite the power of the bully pulpit, and the pull of billions of dollars in federal education funding, leaders in at least a dozen states have said Barack Obama's guidance on transgender bathroom, shower, and locker room use is unconstitutional, with many saying the decree will not be implemented, come what may. Governors, attorneys general, and school officials – not to mention incensed parents – say the federal document released last Friday is a vast overreach of the president's powers and places young children at risk. Disregarding 'the president's social experiment' Upon release of the long-rumored document last week, multiple governors declared the decree dead on arrival. North Carolina , which is already locked in a protracted battle over its own state law over transgender restroom use, brushed off last Friday's directive. Obama's policy is “an invitation for violations of privacy and personal safety,” said North Carolina Lt. Gov. D

A Virginia school board unanimously approved an ordinance on Friday resisting the Obama administration ’s transgender bathroom edict and requiring students to use bathrooms and locker rooms that correspond with their biological sex . The ordinance, which immediately took effect, allows public school students in Grayson County, Virginia , to request to use a single-stall facility but prevents them from accessing facilities that don’t correspond with their biological sex. The Obama administration   has threatened   to pull federal funding from schools that do not allow males to access facilities designated for females, like locker rooms, showers, and bathrooms. Under the administration’s new guidelines, male and female students   must be allowed   to share hotel rooms on school trips. Kelly Wilmore, the superintendent of Grayson County Public Schools, told LifeSiteNews that the ordinance was passed in response to requests from parents. He said the community has been ov