“Today the most terrible danger is gender ideology, which erases differences,” the pope said. Jorge Bergoglio has already repeatedly criticized this theory.

In 2016, he notably denounced the “sneaky indoctrination” of French school textbooks influenced by this theory, provoking an avalanche of criticism in France. In 2019, the Vatican published a text intended to help teachers in Catholic schools counter gender “ideology” which “denies the natural difference between a man and a woman”