Covenant House Texas Is Not A Home For Houston Trans And Intersex Youth
Filed by: Monica Roberts
December 1, 2010 1:00 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2010/12/covenant_house_texas_is_not_a_home_for_houston_tra.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2010/12/covenant_house_texas_is_not_a_home_for_houston_tra.php)
The Covenant House location in Houston opened its doors on June 27, 1983 and has been around in the Montrose gayborhood for over 25 years. It claims on its website that it has counseled, mentored, educated, inspired, transformed, and healed thousands of lives.
Unless you happen to be transgender or intersex.
Covenant House was begun by a Franciscan priest back in 1969, and founded as an organization in New York City in 1972. Lady Gaga recently gave Covenant House a $20,000 donation for their work with LGBT youth, but judging by how they handle things in Houston, you'd be hard pressed to give them a passing grade for the way that Covenant House-Texas deals with Houston area transgender and intersex kids.
Astonishing.
The RCC's latest little buzzword is "culture of death". Appearantly since LGBT folk do not procreate they are contributing to this "culture of death". Yet when a shelter run by the RCC rejects a trans youth only for her to be shot and killed it somehow does not contribute to this "culture of death" at all. Shame on them. Her blood is on their hands.