U.S. Catholic bishops have issued new guidelines to Catholic hospitals barring them from providing transgender people with gender transition care.
FILE - Christine Zuba holds the cross she wears when serving as a eucharistic minister at Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church at her home in Blackwood, New Jersey, on Monday, Feb. 14, 2022. After coming out as transgender at age 58, Zuba, a lifelong Catholic, was welcomed into the parish.
Catholic hospitals make up a sizeable portion of the U.S. health care system and in some communities they are the only option. The Catholic Health Association, which comprises more than 600 hospitals and 1,400 long-term care and other health facilities in the United States, says more than one in seven U.S. hospital patients is cared for in a Catholic facility.
“As we look at the document from the bishops, what we are mindful of is that we have a history of caring for the marginalized, and we see transgender people very much as a marginalized group,” he said. Bouchard said Catholic hospitals will “base health care on science and continue to follow the science when it comes to transgender people.”
“The bishops’ unwillingness to counter any of the evidence from the scientific community or the experience of transgender people is neither good theology nor acceptable pastoral care,” he said. “In my parish, I feel accepted unconditionally for who I am,” she said. “But that is missing in our hierarchy. There is no willingness to engage with us and understand our lives.”
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