The Vatican has rejected the idea that people can change or choose their gender, suggesting the movement aims to “annihilate the concept of nature”.
The Vatican office that oversees Catholic schools and universities published a guidance document for priests and teachers yesterday called Male and Female He Created Them.
It describes an “educational crisis” around gender and criticises the view that gender and sexuality can be “fluid”, saying such theories are “founded on a confused concept of freedom”.
New Ways Ministry, a group for LGBT Catholics, said the document was a “harmful tool” that would also be used against gay and bisexual people.
The report, by the Congregation for Catholic Education, adds: “Efforts to go beyond the constitutive male-female sexual difference lead to a masculinity…
