text: (i)Pope Francis doesn't belong to "progressives" or "conservatives". Catholic Social Teaching doesn't fit neatly on the left-right spectrum. On Issues like abortion, Birth control and gay marriage it is socially conservative. On issues like poverty, workers rights, capital punishment, war, migrants and refugees, the environment it leans liberal. So the Pope strictly speaking isn't a "progressive" or a "conservative". He's just a follower of Catholic Social Teaching which contradicts both. 
  
  (ii)That is a lot of selective quotations and misquotations there. He didn't compare Trans people to nuclear weapons. That's a popular meme on the internet that has not independent verification. He actually is the first Pope to meet Queer and Trans inmates, states Jesus would not marginalize the Trans community, and when a Trans man and his partner where kicked out of their parish in Spain for transitioning, he forced the parish to accept them back.