In my childhood, those words meant a boy was unathletic or timid or prone to emotional outbursts. None of us knew those words had anything to do with sex, because none of us had more than a very vague notion what sex was.

If the bishops had written a directive about acceptance of gender non-conforming behavior, that would have been halfway understandable. But they didn't; they wrote one about same-sex attraction. I don't know what the numbers are for boys, but most gender non-conforming girls do not grow up to be lesbians and many, if not most, lesbians are not gender non-conforming.

And I somehow think they would not object to bullying gender non-conforming girls. Pope Francis often speaks derisively of, e.g., "machismo in una gonella," which is not quite the same as saying b--l d--e, but not so far off either.