unhelpfully.
[FONT="] The Vatican has issued an official document rejecting the idea that people can choose or change their genders and insisting on the sexual "complementarity" of men and women to make babies.
[/FONT][FONT="]It said the idea of gender being determined by personal feeling rather than biology was an attempt to "annihilate nature".
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[/FONT][FONT="]"The real-life experiences of LGBT people seem entirely absent from this document," said the Reverend James Martin, a Jesuit priest who wrote a book on improving Catholic Church outreach to the LGBT community, titled [/FONT]Building a Bridge[FONT="]. "We should welcome the congregation's call to dialogue and listening on gender, and I hope that conversation will now begin."[/FONT]