Pope Francis faced calls to overturn the Catholic Church’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender people on Oct 12 when he held talks with LGBTQ activists at the Vatican. The 80-minute meeting, held privately at the guesthouse where the pontiff lives, included a Catholic sister who works with LGBTQ people, a member of the transgender community, and an American medical doctor who helps run a clinic providing gender-affirming hormonal care for adults.

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Pope urged at LGBT meeting to reverse church ban on gender-affirming care

The meeting comes six months after a Vatican office rejected the therapy.

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VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis faced calls to overturn the Catholic Church's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender people on Saturday when he held talks with LGBTQ activists at the Vatican. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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LGBTQ activists have met the Pope at the Vatican and urged him to reverse a Catholic ban on gender-affirming hormonal care for adults.

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Pope Francis faced calls to overturn the Catholic Church’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender people when he held talks with LGBTQ activists at the Vatican.

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Pope Francis faced calls to overturn the Catholic Church's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender people on Saturday when he held talks with LGBTQ activists at the Vatican.

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LGBTQ groups sharply criticized the Vatican’s ban and said they did not seek input from transgender people about their experiences

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Pope Francis faced calls to overturn the Catholic Church's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender people on Saturday (October 12) when he held t

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The meeting took place six months after the Vatican firmly rejected sex changes, claiming that they “jeopardize the dignity that the person received at the time of conception”.

O encontro aconteceu seis meses depois do Vaticano rejeitar firmemente as mudanças de sexo, alegando que “colocam em risco a dignidade que a pessoa recebeu no momento da conceção”.

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