(LifeSiteNews) — The heretical German bishops are planning to introduce guidelines for Catholic schools promoting radical gender ideology without questioning its horrendous consequences for children.
The German Catholic News Agency (KNA) reports that the Catholic bishops, or more precisely, their school commission headed by Bishop Heinrich Timmerevers, are preparing a 20-page document on “sexual diversity” for Catholic schools.
The paper says schools should respect and make more visible students who are “non-binary” and “non-heterosexual.” It states that it is essential to “identify and reduce existing irritations and uncertainties in dealing with the diversity of sexual identity.”
The text, which has not yet been finalized and therefore not yet published, draws attention to the fact that many “queer students” go through years of painful inner insecurity and doubt. According to KNA, the paper denounces “queerphobic prejudice, discrimination, and bullying” against those students.
The paper was allegedly a response to a survey of 2,000 students, teachers, and parents at Catholic schools regarding “diversity of sexual identities.” In the survey conducted by the Berlin Institute for Christian Ethics and Politics, about 20 percent said they had experienced or observed discrimination against “homosexual, trans, or non-binary, i.e., queer, students,” KNA reports.
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The text is based on the assumption that “gender identity” and sexual orientation cannot be arbitrarily shaped or chosen. However, it also claims that children can repeatedly experience “incongruities” in their “gender identity” until puberty, meaning that they are uncertain about their physical and emotional “gender identity” revealing the apparent contradiction within gender ideology.
The paper does not take a position on whether or not hormone injections or mutilating surgeries are an appropriate response for individuals who experience gender dysphoria.
According to the draft text, the goal of a “queer-friendly school” should be to support the “holistic personality development” of children and adolescents. This also includes schools providing a space “in which children and adolescents can gain certainty about their sexual orientation and gender identity.”
In order to do justice to “queer youth,” the draft text also advocates gender-neutral language, “in which no person must inevitably assign themselves to a particular gender or be assigned by others.”
Criticism of the ‘unscientific’ paper
KNA quotes Franz-Josef Bormann, a lay moral theologian from Tübingen, one of the most prominent critics of the draft document, who said the paper was “unscientific, based on feel-good and acceptance rhetoric, and conceals the medical and psychological problems of many queer or trans-identifying young people.”
Bormann criticized the paper for not taking a clear stance on Catholic moral teaching and for relativizing the binary nature of gender. Instead of normative evaluation, the text is concerned with “diffuse rhetoric of respect.” It also completely ignores the internal medical controversy surrounding the care and treatment of adolescents with gender dysphoria, Bormann noted.
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“Teachers need to know, for example, that a large number of children who identify as trans have mental health issues that require treatment. They need psychotherapeutic support,” said Bormann. “And the paper also fails to mention that the vast majority of uncertainties about one’s own gender identity are only temporary.”
Recently, the Archdiocese of Hamburg published sex ed guidelines for its Catholic schools, encouraging homosexuality and transgenderism in schools.
The concept of sexuality used in the guidelines in Hamburg is based on the work of Uwe Sielert, professor emeritus of “sexual sciences” at Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel, who defines sexuality as “general life energy that makes use of the body, is fed from a variety of sources, has many different forms of expression, and is meaningful in many different ways,” in radical contradiction to the Catholic faith.
Sielert was also connected to Helmut Kentler, the infamous leader of one of Germany’s biggest pedophile networks in the 20th century.
