Questioning Transphobia: The Pope and teh trans

http://questioningtransphobia.wordpress.com/2008/12/23/the-pope-and-teh-trans/
12/23/2008

So, by now you're probably aware of the Pope's speech to the Curia, which has gotten publicity for its linking the destruction of the rainforests with the destruction caused by GLBT people for, like, existing.  Full translation is here, but the relevant passage is:

"When the Church speaks of the nature of the human being as man and woman and asks that this order of creation be respected, it is not the result of an outdated metaphysic.  It is a question here of faith in the Creator and of listening to the language of creation, the devaluation of which leads to the self-destruction of man and therefore to the destruction of the same work of God.  That which is often expressed and understood by the term "gender", results finally in the self-emancipation of man from creation and from the Creator.  Man wishes to act alone and to dispose ever and exclusively of that alone which concerns him.  But in this way he is living contrary to the truth, he is living contrary to the Spirit Creator.  The tropical forests are deserving, yes, of our protection, but man merits no less than the creature, in which there is written a message which does not mean a contradiction of our liberty, but its condition.  The great Scholastic theologians have characterised matrimony, the life-long bond between man and woman, as a sacrament of creation, instituted by the Creator himself and which Christ – without modifying the message of creation – has incorporated into the history of his covenant with mankind."

I'm so sorry for the man in the white robe. He can't take away my dignity nor my pride in who I am. I'm transexual and the doctors cut on me long before this pope came along. I'm alive and happy, he can't take that away from me. That is more than some who belong to the catholic church. It happens to be one of the richest churches in the world while most of it's congregation is poor. I think there was a passage in the bible about the rich who take away from the poor. Jesus was a poor man with an open mind to people with differences that man kind have. He never had a clean white robe and everything handed to him on a silver platter. This pope is a joke to the church and to man kind.