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Gender Can’t Be Changed, But Hearts Can Change, Ohio Bishop Says, by Matthew McDonald – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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Bishop Daniel Thomas of Toledo, Ohio (photo: Jim / CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons)

By Matthew McDonald, The National Catholic Register, September 16, 2025

Matthew McDonald is a staff reporter for The National Catholic Register and the editor of New Boston Post. He lives in Massachusetts.

Toledo Bishop Daniel Thomas’ new document ‘The Body Reveals the Person’ rejects gender transitioning, but not the gender transitioner.

Attempting to change gender is “medically assisted self-harm” and should be rejected, but people experiencing pain over gender identity should know that God loves them and wants to bring them to himself through their sufferings, an Ohio bishop says in a new document.

At 7,700 words, The Body Reveals the Person: A Catholic Response to the Challenges of Gender Ideology, published by Toledo Bishop Daniel Thomas in August, is the longest statement on gender identity yet from a U.S. bishop, drawing on Scripture, theology, philosophy and social sciences to present Church teaching in a form the bishop said he hopes is “readable, digestible, accessible, and charitable.” …

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