Rebecca, one of the first transgender women in Ireland to receive a female passport, told the Irish Sunday Mirror: “It’s amazing news. It’s about time.”
Rebecca Tallon de Havilland has welcomed the Vatican’s new transgender guidelines declaring: “It’s about time.”
“Back in the day there were a few weddings I wasn’t able to attend because the priest disapproved of me being there as a trans woman.” She said: “I would like to think that people who are honest Catholics are not hypocrites and start to see us as human beings. It said “a transsexual – even one who has undergone hormone treatment and gender reassignment surgery – may receive baptism under the same conditions as other faithful”.
She added: “A couple of years into my transition I went to confession and the priest told me I would rot in hell. “I still very much follow my faith. I go to Lourdes every year on my own. I have a deep affinity with Our Lady.
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