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The Pope’s advice to trans people? ‘Accept the body God gave you’ [View all]
Sorry, Pope lovers. 
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2015/06/19/the-popes-advice-to-trans-people-accept-the-body-god-gave-you/
The Pope has given some advice to transgender people – that they should just accept the body that came as “God’s gift”....
He wrote: “The acceptance of our bodies as God’s gift is vital for welcoming and accepting the entire world as a gift from the Father and our common home,” the Pope wrote.
The Pope also attacked gender theory, suggesting that trans people are actually just struggling with same-sex attraction.
“For example, I ask myself, if the so-called gender theory is not, at the same time, an expression of frustration and resignation, which seeks to cancel out sexual difference because it no longer knows how to confront it … the removal of difference in fact creates a problem, not a solution.”
He wrote: “The acceptance of our bodies as God’s gift is vital for welcoming and accepting the entire world as a gift from the Father and our common home,” the Pope wrote.
The Pope also attacked gender theory, suggesting that trans people are actually just struggling with same-sex attraction.
“For example, I ask myself, if the so-called gender theory is not, at the same time, an expression of frustration and resignation, which seeks to cancel out sexual difference because it no longer knows how to confront it … the removal of difference in fact creates a problem, not a solution.”
"Accept the body that came as 'God's gift'"? Does that mean he's against piercings? Tattoos? Plastic surgery?
Oh well, he's still an upgrade from Ratz. Not that that's the least bit difficult.
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