The pope blamed what he called “ideological colonizing” backed by “very influential countries”, which he did not identify.
Hey, remember that time Pope Francis compared trans people to nuclear weapons? His transphobia is showing again.Â
In a meeting last week, the pope said that it’s “terrible” that children are taught to “choose” their gender, and that transgender people represent the “annihilation of man.” There’s this excerpt:
The pope said he wanted to conclude his remarks by reflecting on this: “We are living a moment of annihilation of man as image of God.” He added that his predecessor, Benedict XVI, had labelled current times “the epoch of sin against God the Creator”.
He said: “Today, in schools they are teaching this to children – to children! – that everyone can choose their gender.” Without specifying, he blamed this on textbooks supplied by “persons and institutions who donate money”. The pope blamed what he called “ideological colonizing” backed by “very influential countries”, which he did not identify. One such “colonization”, he said – “I’ll say it clearly with its first and last name – is gender.”
And also this excerpt:
“Today, children are taught this at school: that everyone can choose their own sex,” Francis said last week, according to the Catholic Herald and other news organizations that read a Vatican transcript of the closed-door meeting. “God created man and woman; God created the world like this and we are doing the exact opposite.”
Teaching children that they can pick their gender, Francis said, is “terrible.”
Saying it again: Maybe he’s said some more progressive things than other popes, but that doesn’t make Pope Francis an ally.Â
I really don’t think he should be accusing us of colonization, considering that he’s the head of the Catholic Fucking Church
I maintain that it is extremely and deliberately threatening to transgender people in Catholic countries in the global south for the Pope to be associating “transgender” with “colonialism.” There are already more trans women getting murdered in Brazil than in any of the country and the pope is intentionally pouring gasoline on this situation. He’s from Latin America, he knows what he’s doing. The man is an overstuffed bag of turds with a mitre on.
Yeah, real sick of fellow liberals treating this guy like an amusing curiosity because he has, a couple of times, said things less terrible than people in his position have previously said.
He isn’t admirable. He is corrupt, his church is corrupt, and the number of abuses of which they are guilty are too many to list.
