Thank you for a wise theological approach for how faithful Catholics should encounter transgender people. This reinforces my experience with all of the parishioners, nuns, priests and bishops that I have revealed my transgender history to. It also affirms Pope Francis's comments on the Spanish trans man he encountered. He has made some rather hyperbolic comments on 'gender theory ' and if we are ever able to determine what he means by that there may be some concern but he has made it clear that the treatment of transgender people must be accepted and supported. A modern theory is not a cause of transgender people. We have existed in every culture, throughout history and in 'primitive' cultures too. Our medicalization and marginalization are evidence of our current cultures struggles with gender as class and the inequality inherent with that. But that might be a whole other article.