Religion

There is growing acceptance of trans people at religious schools and you can guess what conservative religions have to say about that.

Rhode Island Catholic school promises 'accommodations' for transgender students
Catholic World News
March 09, 2016

Bowing to pressure from "transgender" activists, a Catholic secondary school in Rhode Island has said that it is prepared to make "reasonable accommodations" to students who identify with the opposite sex.

Mount St. Charles Academy has eliminated an admissions policy that barred "transgender" students, and promised to explore other means of accommodating them.

Then there was this article about the school/s choice to change their policy.

LGBT Lobby Bullies Catholic School Into Accommodating Transgender Students
After LGBT protests targeted a private Catholic academy in Rhode Island for its policy against catering to crossdressing students, the school now says it is open to reversing its rules and making “reasonable accommodations” for children who want to be treated as members of the opposite sex.
Breitbart
By Thomas D. Williams, PH.D.
9 Mar 2016
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The academy is run by a Catholic religious order called the Brothers of the Sacred Heart, a community founded in France after the French revolution to “to rescue young people from ignorance, to prepare them for life, and to give them knowledge and love of religion.” The school’s declared primary mission is “the evangelization of young people,” which presumably includes a Christian understanding of sexual identity.

Moreover, the academy expressly aims at “the formation of the whole person, traditional values, high expectations, self-discipline, fairness, professional competence, and collaboration,” which would preclude encouraging young people from self-destructive experimentation with gender fluidity, contrary to Catholic teaching on the human person.

The article goes on to say…

Accepting one’s nature also carries over into gender differences, [Pope] Francis observed, underscoring the Christian vision of humanity as male and female.

“Valuing one’s own body in its femininity or masculinity is necessary if I am going to be able to recognize myself in an encounter with someone who is different,” he wrote. “In this way we can joyfully accept the specific gifts of another man or woman, the work of God the Creator, and find mutual enrichment.”

But not all religions are against LGBT people, there are many churches that are affirming.