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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 7th grade DD goes to a fairly progressive Catholic school. They are the only student in their year group that they know who identifies as non binary, although they are friends with a few gay students. They would like to ask the school to use their gender neutral name when they start back for 8th grade after the summer. I am wondering how this is going to be received... I know Catholic school is not ideal for LGBTQ kids so we are going to make a change for High School but they are adamant they want to stay for 8th as they have so many good friends at the school.[/quote]

Are you at a k-8 diocesan Catholic school? [/quote]

No a 6-8 middle (Los Angeles Diocese)[/quote]

Not being in the DC area is a key element you left out of your op.   I don’t think this is the best place to ask for guidance. [/quote]

Agree. Wrong forum. [/quote]

Ok, sadly there is no equivalent forum in LA. [/quote]

The thing is that the Catholic Church is, for the most part, extraordinarily conservative in this area.   Our church doesn’t even have girls serve at the alter.  My home church back in the NY suburbs let girls serve back in the 1970’s!

I would talk to the administration and see how they respond.  But I’d also talk to your child about the trade-offs of staying in that school.  If it’s important to her to finish next year with her friends, maybe it would be worth it for her to delay a name change until she gets to high school.  [/quote]

For someone knocking the Church as being anti-women+LGBTQ+, you sure aren't using the correct pronouns for this child.  
It's "altar" BTW. [/quote]

I’m not knocking the church.  I’m pointing out the fact that the church in this area is very conservative. Is what it is.  And I disagree, I am using the pronouns that are factually correct.  I can feel compassion for the op and her child, and at the same time think that denying the reality that the child is female is not truly beneficial to the child.   It’s like the old Elvis Costello song, sometimes it’s cruel to be kind.  Reality matters.  I wouldn’t want the church to tell an anorexic that they are actually fat, much in the same way I don’t think the church should tell a female child that they are actually male.   I would hope the church would be compassionate and loving, and at the same time remain grounded in the truth.[/quote]

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