Ms. McBride, of the Human Rights Campaign, noted that transgender people have been a part of humanity throughout time and across cultures. Catholics, said the comments represented a “dangerous ignorance” about gender identity, which is no more a choice than height or hair color. “It’s very troubling that the pope would say this,” Ms. Duddy-Burke said on Wednesday. Sarah McBride, a spokeswoman for the Human Rights Campaign, said the words sent a ripple of hope through the L.G.B.T. — that everyone can choose their gender,” he said, according to a transcript released by the Vatican on Tuesday.

Source: New York Times August 03, 2016 19:02 UTC