Church Bars Trans Politician From Relative’s Wedding

Church Bars Trans Politician From Relative’s Wedding
by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff Posted: November 8, 2007 - 5:00 pm ET

(Rome) An Italian couple has been told the bride’s cousin cannot attend the wedding because she is transsexual, supports gay rights and is a critic of the Catholic Church. Vladimir Luxuria was to have been a bridesmaid at the wedding, to take place this weekend at an ancient chapel in Foggia, in southern Italy.

Italian media report that the chapel’s priest told the couple that it has a choice to make: either they disinvite Luxuria or they do not marry.

The priest, identified as a Fr Francesco, said Luxuria does not represent “family values”.

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Why The Pope Hates Trans People

Monica Roberts describes how the Catholic Church has taken such a transphobic stance.

In addition to killing the gender program at John Hopkins and writing transmisogynistic screeds, McHugh considers himself the originator of the “two types” theory - that is, homosexual transsexuals and autogynephile transsexuals - that Bailey, Blanchard, and Lawrence have attempted to popularize.

Monica reports that Dr. McHugh was the primary advisor to the Vatican regarding its stance on transsexual and intersexed people - a stance that is actively harmful, given the Catholic Church’s influence in much of the world.

It’s deadly that so much policy surrounding trans people is influenced by virulent transphobic and transmisogynistic people who use their positions to legitimize and reinforce the kind of bigotry that makes it okay to see us as subhuman, or to value our lives less.

Monica also points out that some of the Catholic membership is not so impressed with this bigotry.

 Read her article on this - Hell, read her whole blog. She’s one of the best bloggers on trans issues I’ve read.