By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet, Human Life Internatinal, February 20, 2023
Father Shenan J. Boquet was ordained in 1993 and is a priest of the Houma-Thibodaux Roman Catholic Diocese in Louisiana, his home state, where he served before joining HLI in August 2011. …
“Today children – children! – are taught in school that everyone can choose his or her sex. Why are they teaching this?” ― Pope Francis, Meeting with the Polish Bishops
Our Holy Father, Pope Francis, made the above remarks to a group of bishops during a visit to Poland in 2016. As the Holy Father noted, gender ideology is being exported to developing countries by people who demand that schools teach these radical ideas in exchange for development funds. “These forms of ideological colonization are also supported by influential countries. And this is terrible!” he said.
I share the Holy Father’s dismay. He is quite right to denounce such efforts to export such damaging ideas to countries that often have strong pro-life and pro-family values. However, in some ways things are even worse here in the developed world, where ideologues are not only ideologically colonizing the minds of children but are actively recruiting them into making irreversible medical decisions that cause enormous, life-long harm.
That is the brutal truth exposed in one of the most important recent articles on the issue of transgenderism. The article is by a whistleblower named Jamie Reed, who spent years working at The Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital. …
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