The Archdiocese of Milwaukee issued a new policy for all Catholic institutions within its jurisdiction regarding transgender persons, requiring people to use the bathroom, and follow the dress code, that corresponds to their biological sex, and barring medications such as “puberty blockers” from Catholic school campuses. It also prohibits the practice of a person identifying the pronouns by which they would like to be addressed.
“Our biological sex, expressed by our body, is a gift from God and is unchangeable,” the new document states. “A person’s biological sex is expressed in and through the body. It cannot be changed because it is bestowed by God as a gift and as a calling, and the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable.”
The policy, which was authorised by Archbishop Jerome Listecki, further states that those who experience a disconnect between their biological sex and gender “should be treated with respect and with charity”.
Fr Greg Greiten, a Milwaukee priest who told his congregation he was gay in 2017, said that he and other priests with whom he had spoken were “dumbfounded”. Fr Philip Bochanski, director of Courage International, a Catholic apostolate that ministers to gay men and women, said the “document strikes me as very balanced”.
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