Transgender + Catholic = story
Posted by Sarah Pulliam Bailey
http://www.getreligion.org/?p=25247 (http://www.getreligion.org/?p=25247)
You don't see 2,000-word stories in newspapers every day, so when you do, the editors probably deem it an important story.
The Des Moines Register gave several inches to a reporter to explain how Susan McIntyre, a transgender social worker, was fired from her job as a housekeeper at the St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Student Center at Drake University.
Before she was fired, McIntyre was using parish offices to provide counseling for transgendered clients. The Register reports that a priest discovered a piece of paper in the copy machine with McIntyre's authorization of hormone therapy for someone about to undergo a sex change. The letterhead included the center's name and address.