Sister Jeannine Gramick, Michael Sennett, Cynthia Herrick, Nicole Santamaria and Robert Shine walk near Saint Peter's Square, after attending a meeting of transgender Catholics and their supporters with Pope Francis at the Vatican, in Rome, Italy, October 12, 2024. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis faced calls to overturn the Catholic Church's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender people on Saturday when he held talks with LGBTQ activists at the Vatican.
The 80-minute meeting, held privately at the guesthouse where the pope lives, included a Catholic sister who works with LGBTQ people, a member of the transgender community, and a U.S. medical doctor who helps run a clinic providing gender-affirming hormonal care for adults.
