Urge Your Legislators to Resist the Radical Gender Legislation Being Proposed in the State Legislature
The so-called gender treatments are being welcomed and pushed through legislative efforts, and are making their way into omnibus bills. Tell your legislators NO!

Send your message: https://www.mncatholic.org/action_20241

Listen to Bishop Barron explain the importance of opposing this radical gender ideology and follow his lead by taking action!

The Minnesota Legislature is promoting a radical gender agenda that seeks to impose itself on our culture. This legislation includes:

H.F. 16 / S.F. 23 – Counseling Ban (“conversion therapy ban”)
H.F. 146 / S.F. 63 – “Trans Refuge Bill”
H.F. 173 / S.F. 37 – Equal Rights Amendment
H.F. 1655 / S.F. 1886 – Human Rights Act Conscience Protections Removed
H.F. 2280 / S.F. 2236 – Right to Gender-Affirming Care Act
H.F. 2607 / S.F. 2209 – Gender-Affirming Care Coverage Mandated

Each of these bills seeks to further enshrine into law a deeply flawed and fictional account of the human person that will bring harm to vulnerable young people. Many young people are struggling with confusion about their basic human experience and their identity, often caused by peer influence and cultural forces. Families are seeking honest help, yet pharmaceutical companies and some unscrupulous doctors are negligently funneling kids into a lifetime of surgical and hormonal treatments, which has already created a billion-dollar business. By denying the reality that we are each created male and female, we are doing irreversible damage to children and inhibiting their future ability to form families.

Although every instance of unjust discrimination must be avoided against persons with gender discordance, we cannot allow gender ideology to grow unchecked, as ample evidence suggests that “gender-affirming care” not only does not resolve a person’s psychological struggles but exacerbates them.

We need to tell our legislators that promoting this false reality of the human person is unacceptable. Enshrining gender ideology into law will harm our children, and is detrimental to society.

Church Teaching:

Pope Francis, in his Apostolic Exhortation, Amoris Laetitia, he states:

“Yet another challenge is posed by the various forms of an ideology of gender that ‘denies the difference and reciprocity in nature of a man and a woman and envisages a society without sexual differences, thereby eliminating the anthropological basis of the family. This ideology leads to educational programs and legislative enactments that promote a personal identity and emotional intimacy radically separated from the biological difference between male and female. Consequently, human identity becomes the choice of the individual, one which can also change over time’. It is a source of concern that some ideologies of this sort, which seek to respond to what are at times understandable aspirations, manage to assert themselves as absolute and unquestionable, even dictating how children should be raised. It needs to be emphasized that ‘biological sex and the socio-cultural role of sex (gender) can be distinguished but not separated’”.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church also teaches:

2331: "God is love and in himself he lives a mystery of personal loving communion. Creating the human race in his own image . . .. God inscribed in the humanity of man and woman the vocation, and thus the capacity and responsibility, of love and communion."

"God created man in his own image . . . male and female he created them"; He blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and multiply"; "When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created."