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German Archdiocese Hires Self-Identified Transgender Man to Teach Religious Ed

Trine Juel via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).Flag of Germany waves in the breeze on a clear day in Berlin.

The Archdiocese of Freiburg has defended its decision to grant a biological female who identifies as a transgender man permission to teach Catholic religion to schoolchildren, amid questions over whether it is attempting to sidestep canon law and the Church’s teaching on sexual morality.