Religious ed workshop: ‘Be sensitive, loving and supportive of transgender Catholics in transition’
Rather than help individuals find solutions for gender dysphoria, Catholic parish leaders were encouraged at a recent national workshop to incorporate “transgender” issues into religious education and preach at Mass about the “needs, concerns and joys of transgender people.” In addition to proselytizing about transgenderism at Mass and other prayer gatherings, catechists at the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress ( LA REC ) workshop were encouraged to bring transgender people in for panel discussions and to “recognize” and/or have a parish presence at “public transgender events.” " Transgender in the Family: One Bread, One Body" was a Saturday session at the Congress that ran February 24-26 with a related Youth Day before the general Congress. “Transgender” session attendees learned how to “ be sensitive, loving and supportive of transgender Catholics and their families in the midst of transition,” according to the workshop description, and were presen