Catholic bishops in Australia have released guidelines for the country s almost 2,000 Catholic schools on gender, urging school leaders to resist pressure to adopt the dominant rhetoric around gender. Created and Loved: A guide for Catholic schools on identity and gender outlines a pastoral approach shaped by the theological, medical and legislative context in which Catholic schools should treat their trans, nonbinary and gender-diverse students.
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Australia’s school curriculum has been described in withering terms as “a mile wide, but just an inch deep” by education and skills director for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Andreas Schleicher.
Educators at more than 1,700 Catholic schools will be advised that for the majority of children, the feeling that their biological sex and their gender identity is mismatched is a psychological condition .