Bishop Thomas Daly: 'We Are Playing Make-Believe with Students’ Biological Sexes'

My 14-year-old daughter passed through the heavy wooden doors of a relic last week. She began her high school years at old Mount de Sales Academy, the type of Catholic institution that is vanishing in America, like the gradual blowing out of racks of votive candles. The instructors and the Nashville Dominican sisters at the 170-year-old all-girls school strive to help save the eternal soul perhaps even more than stretching the mind. Due to Mount de Sales’ location, though,—the Archdiocese of Baltimore—the sisters’ maternal drive to sacrifice and protect their girls has grown weightier. The transgender revolution has been invited into Baltimore Catholic high school sports teams and become etched into primary school handbooks. In the private high school athletic league, in which twelve all-girls Catholic schools participate, there is a new policy that has obliterated women’s competition. While running hills in her first cross-country meet this past weekend, my daughter could have been running alongside (and likely passed by) a few gender-confused boys.-- More...