Pope Francis and LGBT topics information

Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church since 2013, has marked a significantly more accommodative tone on LGBT topics than his predecessors.^[1] In July 2013, his televised "Who am I to judge?" statement was widely reported in the international press, becoming one of his most famous statements on LGBT people.^[2]^[3]^[4] In other public statements, Francis has emphasised the need to accept, welcome, and accompany LGBT people,^[5]^[6]^[7] including LGBT children,^[8]^[9] and has denounced laws criminalising homosexuality.^[10]^[3]^[11] While he has reiterated traditional Catholic teaching that marriage is between a man and a woman,^[12]^[13] he has supported same-sex civil unions as legal protections for same-sex couples.^[9]^[14] Under his pontificate, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has confirmed that transgender people can be baptised,^[15]^[16] and allowed the blessing of same-sex couples in the document Fiducia supplicans.^[17] Francis has privately met many LGBT people and activists. In 2013, Francis was named as Person of the Year by The Advocate, an American LGBT magazine.^[18]

Relative to LGB topics, Francis has been less accomodative on transgender topics,^[1] describing gender theory and children's education on gender-affirming surgery as "ideological colonisation".^[19]^[2] In September 2015, Francis came under media scrutiny for meeting Kim Davis, a county clerk who was imprisoned for refusing to issue marriage licences for same-sex couples,^[20]^[21] and in August 2018, Francis was criticised for suggesting that gay children seek psychiatric treatment.^[22] Prior to his election as Pope Francis, as Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Jorge Mario Bergoglio led public opposition to the parliamentary bill on legalising same-sex marriage in Argentina, which was approved by the Argentine Senate on 15 July 2010.^[23] A letter he wrote in that campaign was criticised for using "medieval" and "obscurantist" language,^[24]^[25]^[26] and was later admitted by an episcopal source to be a strategic error that contributed to the bill's success.^[27]

^ ^a ^b Molloy, Parker Marie (19 December 2013). "Op-ed: Pope Francis Has Not Made Good on Transgender Rights". The Advocate. Retrieved 26 January 2024.
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