Pope Leo Embraces Transgenderism — Invites Prominent Trans Activists to Vatican Luncheon

( Gateway Pundit )

Pope Leo XIV appears to be embracing the cause of transgenderism.

According to left-wing Catholic blogger and activist Christopher Hale, Leo will meet with Italian transgender activist Alessia Nobile and several other campaigners for a luncheon on Sunday.

He wrote on his Substack ‘The Letters from Leo’:

Pope Leo XIV will meet and dine in a group setting with Alessia Nobile, a transgender Catholic activist from Bari, during a special lunch at the Vatican this Sunday, November 16.

The encounter will take place as part of the Church’s Jubilee of the Poor, an event coinciding with the World Day of the Poor that includes Mass and a communal meal with those in need.

Nobile, 46, has confirmed that she and four other transgender women were invited to the luncheon after she formally requested an audience with the new pope, motivated by her concern that the Church might “turn back on LGBTQ rights” after the death of her friend, Pope Francis.

The upcoming meeting — unprecedented in placing a transgender advocate at the pope’s luncheon — is seen as a continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy of outreach to marginalized people, and Nobile hopes it will reassure the LGBTQ community of the Vatican’s commitment to inclusion and dialogue.

Leo is following in the lead of the late Pope Francis, who last year met with a group of “transgender and intersex Catholics” for a nearly 90-minute audience at his residence, the Domus Sanctae Marthae.

Francis was also a vocal advocate of LGBT rights and introduced the blessing of same-sex couples in the church.

His successor, meanwhile, has gradually been expanding his left-wing and progressive credentials with pointed attacks on the Trump administration’s policy of mass deportations.

Earlier this month, he called for “deep reflection” on the policy of removing illegal aliens and also came out against the ongoing strikes against Venezuelan drug vessels.

“I believe violence never brings victory,” he said of the precision strikes.

“The key is to seek dialogue, to find fair ways to resolve the problems that may exist within countries.”