The Diocese of Green Bay, Wisconsin, has released an update to its educational policy, which states that its schools will only refer to students, parents, and faculty by their biological sex. The new policy will be enforced in the 54 schools within the diocese, as well as at institutions of religious education.
New policy
The policy, released in July, stipulates that diocesan schools and religious education programs will not adhere to the preferred pronouns of students or their parents. The policy went on to note that students may only dress and participate in competitive athletics in accordance with their biological sex. Furthermore, schools within the diocese will ban puberty-blocking or cross-sex hormones on their properties.
The missive explains that the diocese “understands that truth is the correspondence of mind to reality” and that “assisting the person in his or her disconnection with this reality” is contrary to the pursuit of truth. The new policy states:
Milwaukee
The update to the Diocese of Green Bay’s policy falls much in line with a similar policy update to schools within the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. In January, Aleteia’s own John Burger reported that the Archdiocese of Milwaukee’s policy also eschews personally chosen pronouns for those of one’s given sex at birth.
In its policy update, the Archdiocese of Milwaukee quoted St. Thomas Aquinas’ Summa theologiae, which states:
