Her Eminence Mindrolling Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche has stated: One can grow spiritually by being a monk, through getting married, through homosexual relations. If you really love another man as a man, no problem. Within the Buddha’s doctrine itself homosexuality is nothing special, nothing new. Such a thing as realization means being free from attachment to whomever it may be-a man to a man, a man to a woman, a woman to a woman, or whomever it may be. Each person is responsible for his or her own mind, own thoughts, emotions, understanding, awakening, realization. It’s possible for a homosexual person. It’s possible for all sentient beings.Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinoche stated to a live audience: Your sexual orientation has nothing to do with understanding or not understanding the truth. You could be gay, you could be lesbian, you could be straight, we never know which one will get enlightened first… Tolerance is not a good thing. If you are tolerating this, it means that you think it’s something wrong that you will tolerate. But you have to go beyond that – you have to respect.Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche wrote in an open letter to his sangha: Especially right now, it is important to acknowledge our collective history of discrimination, both the progress we have made and the work still left to do. It is time to affirm that the Buddha’s teachings are for all people; that all are accepted with kindness and love, accepted as they are. [...] Our LGBTQ community members seek the safety and support of the Sangha to bring their whole selves to the practice and to the community [...] The teachings of the Buddha show us to not judge others but to have compassion for all. Meditation helps us to become self-aware and to explore our judging mind and see our own biases.Tsoknyi Rinpoche and Mingyur Rinpoche told a transgender Tibetan woman who was formerly a monk that "she was living her life in a positive way and being a good person, which was all that mattered."