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U.S. bishops officially ban gender-affirming care at Catholic hospitals
NPR ^ | November 12, 2025 | The Associated Press via NPR

Posted on 11/14/2025 12:45:44 AM PST by fwdude

U.S. Catholic bishops voted Wednesday to make official a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender patients at Catholic hospitals. The step formalizes a yearslong process for the U.S. church to address transgender health care.

From a Baltimore hotel ballroom, the bishops overwhelmingly approved revisions to their ethical and religious directives that guide the nation's thousands of Catholic health care institutions and providers.

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The screeching ensues. I hope the bishops hold firm.
1 posted on 11/14/2025 12:45:44 AM PST by fwdude
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To: fwdude

Good for them.

It’s time someone stood up to the overgrown toddlers temper tantrums.

I notice that it revolves around gender affirming care, not just run of the mill care of a tranny. It’s simply not enabling, encouraging, and participating in their delusions by providing transition related medical services.

No doubt the next step is lawsuits. Count on it that some tranny will pick that hospital for some kind of medical emergency for the sole purpose of ligating and trying to force the issue through litigation and the courts ala Christian baker style.


2 posted on 11/14/2025 1:30:24 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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To: fwdude
So brave of them. It only took 20 years.

3 posted on 11/14/2025 1:48:12 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: metmom

Late to the party.


4 posted on 11/14/2025 1:59:45 AM PST by steve8714 (I have great hope for Pope Leo. Please don't disappoint me by following your predecessor's ways.)
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To: fwdude

NPR had to hate having to report this. As time passes, and the old hippie bishops retire or die, the USCCB is slowly becoming more conservative, a trend reflected in the increasing interest among young men, especially.


5 posted on 11/14/2025 3:57:21 AM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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To: steve8714

Yeah, but it did happen.


6 posted on 11/14/2025 4:24:17 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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To: hinckley buzzard; metmom; Governor Dinwiddie; fwdude; steve8714

Sort of as an aside, I saw a social media post about the lobotomized Rosemary Kennedy, sister of Ted and John and Bobby et al.

Many of the comments were about “that’s how they shut up strong women back then” and “this is barbaric” and “I can’t believe this was an accepted practice” and “I’m glad we don’t do this anymore.”

Then someone wrote “in 20 years, we will be saying the same things about giving minors gender reassignment surgery.”

The ensuing Donnybrook was a sight to see.


7 posted on 11/14/2025 5:02:10 AM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: fwdude

I can understand, or at least pity, the secular administrators who bowed to political pressure and did things they knew to be wrong. Giving up your career for a bunch of confused kids that you don’t even know would take moral courage.
But now, making the choice when the repercussions have been diminished, if not eliminated, makes the former accommodation stand out prominently.


8 posted on 11/14/2025 5:32:43 AM PST by conejo99
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To: fwdude

They need to make room for all the illegals who will be coming in response to their anti-Trump, open borders resolution.


9 posted on 11/14/2025 5:35:51 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: fwdude

Good. But surprising it took this long.


10 posted on 11/14/2025 5:45:14 AM PST by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along.)
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To: hinckley buzzard
...the USCCB is slowly becoming more conservative...

This week the USCCB elected Archbishop Paul Coakley to be its president. I knew him rather well many years ago when he was the pastor at my parish, and we also served together on several weekend retreats. Coakley is very conservative and an extremely talented, intelligent man who will lead the bishops in the right direction.
11 posted on 11/14/2025 5:53:07 AM PST by Dan in Wichita
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To: steve8714; metmom

From what I’ve read, the ban on “transgender treatments” (whatever that entails) at Catholic medical centers has been standard policy for a long time, but this just makes it official.

Still, they sure waited a long time. My guess is that they didn’t want to run into any expensive tangles with the aggressively pro-”trans” Biden administration. Now, prohibitions on public/government funding for these Frankenstein procedures are public policy federally under Trump. Thank God!


12 posted on 11/14/2025 6:42:28 AM PST by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left)
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To: fwdude

13 posted on 11/14/2025 7:45:22 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.)
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To: fwdude

It is not gender affirming care; it is gender denying mutilation!


14 posted on 11/14/2025 9:35:05 AM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH! )
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To: fwdude

ABOUT TIME


15 posted on 11/14/2025 10:13:50 AM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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