White House also hailed Vatican’s call for the protection of the LGBTQ+ from violence and imprisonment around the world
By Kehinde Okeowo
The White House has assured Americans that President Joe Biden will continue to fight for the rights and safety of the transgender community, otherwise known as LGBTQ+.
This assertion follows Pope Francis’ declaration, which condemned the gender theory on Monday.
According to Fox News, the White House press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, faced questions about Pope Francis’ recent position on the gender’s theory.
A document released on Monday revealed the Catholic Church frowned at attempts to alter an individual’s immutable gender, saying the act is a misguided attempt to play God.
However, Jean-Pierre while reacting to the document, declined to say what Biden thought of it, but added that the president does support the transgender community.
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He said: “We are pleased to see that the document… furthered the Vatican’s call to ensure that LGBTQ+ are protected from violence and imprisonment around the world.
“However, the president will continue to be an advocate for the rights, safety and dignity of the LGBTQ+ community, including transgender people here in the U.S.”
After his comments, a reporter pressed, “What about the more specific comments about gender theory and transgender individuals?”
Replying, Jean-Pierre added, “I’m going to be really careful. The president’s role to litigate internal Church policy, that’s not his role, so I’m gonna be super careful there.
“But I can speak to the president’s stance, and he’s always been very clear on the importance of protecting or having protections for the transgender community and the broader LGBTQ+ community, and that’s been very clear since day one of his administration.”
The document titled, “Dignitas Infinita,” addressed over a dozen individual issues of the modern day through the lens of scripture and church teaching, including abortion, human trafficking, poverty, euthanasia, the death penalty and more.
It was released after more than five years in development by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) and focuses on threats to human dignity in the modern world.
