"LGBT Lobby Bullies Catholic School Into Accommodating Transgender Students"

breitbart.com

"After LGBT protests targeted a private Catholic academy in Rhode Island for its policy against catering to crossdressing students, the school now says it is open to reversing its rules and making 'reasonable accommodations' for children who want to be treated as members of the opposite sex.

According to the current school handbook, Mount Saint Charles Academy in Woonsocket 'is unable to make accommodations for transgender students' and therefore 'does not accept transgender students nor is MSC able to continue to enroll students who identify as transgender.'

The academy presently forbids boys from using the girls’ bathrooms or locker rooms, but that may soon change under pressure from activists. Protesters set up an independent Facebook page attacking the school, under the name 'No hate at MSC.'

LGBT activists crowdfunded more than $5,000 to 'educate' school administrators on gay issues and 'create safe spaces' for transgender students in locker rooms and bathrooms, even though the school has had no requests for admission from transgender students. One local LGBT group, YouthPride, also offered to help educate the school on best practices for indulging transgender students.

The mainstream media have joined the activists in ganging up on the small school, accusing it of discrimination and 'hateful rhetoric' simply for holding fast to its founding principles.

The academy is run by a Catholic religious order called the Brothers of the Sacred Heart, a community founded in France after the French revolution to 'to rescue young people from ignorance, to prepare them for life, and to give them knowledge and love of religion.” The school’s declared primary mission is “the evangelization of young people,' which presumably includes a Christian understanding of sexual identity.

Moreover, the academy expressly aims at 'the formation of the whole person, traditional values, high expectations, self-discipline, fairness, professional competence, and collaboration,' which would preclude encouraging young people from self-destructive experimentation with gender fluidity, contrary to Catholic teaching on the human person.

After the community backlash, however, the school 'has been exploring ways in which it might provide reasonable accommodations for transgender students,' officials said in an apologetic statement on March 4. 'Please know that we would very much like to address the issue, and your prayers and kind assistance would go a long way in allowing us achieve that goal.'"