The Bishop of the Fort Wayne-South Bend Diocese has released new guidelines for Catholic schools within the diocese to follow when it comes to children and their gender identity.
Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades says schools are not to accept the preferred pronouns of students who wish to not be referred to the pronouns correlating with the gender they were assigned at birth.
There will also be no gender-fluid restrooms in Catholic schools either.
Rhoades tells WSBT “gender identity is not something that we choose, but it is something that we receive as a gift.”