Pope Francis Declares Leftist Gender Ideology ‘The Ugliest Danger’

During a speech on Friday, Pope Francis condemned radical leftist gender ideology, declaring that it posed a serious danger to mankind.

The Pope’s remarks came as he spoke to members of the France-based academic organization Research and Anthropology of Vocations Institute (CRAV) on Friday morning, where he warned that there was extreme danger in trying to cancel out the God-given natural differences between men and women.

“It is very important that there is this meeting, this meeting between men and women, because today the ugliest danger is gender ideology, which cancels out differences,” the Pope explained, adding that extremist ideologies such as transgenderism allow the left to try to “make everything the same.”

“Erasing differences is erasing humanity. Man and woman, however, are in a fruitful ‘tension,’” Francis continued.

This is not the first time that the Pope publicly decried the left’s radical gender ideology. He made similar comments in Mar. 2023 during an interview with journalist Elisabetta Piqué, of the Argentinian daily newspaper La Nació.

“Gender ideology, today, is one of the most dangerous ideological colonizations,” Francis explained. “Why is it dangerous? Because it blurs differences and the value of men and women. All humanity is the tension of differences. It is to grow through the tension of differences. The question of gender is diluting the differences and making the world the same, all dull, all alike, and that is contrary to the human vocation.”

He went on to note that, while he did not plan to write anything extensive about the issue of gender ideology, he believed it was necessary to address the issue frequently, especially “because some people are a bit naive and believe that it is the way to progress.”

The Pope then pointed out the importance of drawing a distinction “between what pastoral care is for people who have a different… orientation and what gender ideology is,” adding that “they are two different things.”

Francis also condemned the fact that gender ideology activists have been blurring the lines between men and women, expressing concern that this was “extremely dangerous because it eliminates differences, and that erases humanity, the richness of humanity, both personal, cultural and social, the diversities and the tensions between differences.”