The Cass Review & Transgenderism

I am finding it rather difficult to believe that the cowardly bishops were not waiting for something like the Cass Review before doing anything vaguely like teaching on the difficult and dangerous problem of the transgender agenda. Who can forget that our bishops pretty much sold us down the river back in 2017 and there are many examples of bishops promoting a pro-trans and queer agenda in our dioceses in the name of inclusion and love. They have facilitated Stonewall's infiltration of Catholic Schools and while some have acted with courage (John Wilson) others have completely failed to stand up to this pernicious ideology.

Now the Cass Review has sounded the all clear and our meek bishops finally stick their heads over the trench to see how the fighting has gone.

Now, post Dignitas infinata, the bishops of England and Wales confidently declare that they are in ‘absolute harmony’ with Vatican against gender ideology. Well that is a releif!

Even so, they pointed out in a press conference on 24th April that they won't say whether their teaching would lead to a ban on the use of “preferred pronouns” in schools and other settings, and said that was a matter for the Catholic Education Service. And we all know what the CES is like - they posted LGBT guidelines they copied and pasted from a Stonewall document to all Catholic schools and they apologised to the LGBTQI+ community when Archbishop Wilson stood against a blasphemous homosexual grooming ploy in one of his schools:

The bishops have massively failed us all here and now they come weedling out of the woodwork trying to look like they are doing the right thing. I am, frankly, disgusted. After several paragraphs advising respectful and sympathetic pastoral treatment for people struggling with their sexual identities, the bishops’ official summary concluded: “We cannot encourage support for reconstructive or drug-based medical intervention that harms the body”.

As Phil Lawler pointed out in Catholic Culture:

No, Your Excellencies, you certainly “cannot encourage” gender-altering surgery, because it is an offense against human dignity. But you could forthrightly oppose it. And you didn’t.

Listen to Gavin, Katherine and myself on the three anti-trans documents from April.