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Largest reason is that trans, homosexual and bisexual people don't have to fear being killed or shunned by their families or in school any more. (Yes, in reality they do have to fear discrimination, but soxiety as a large has gotten way, way more open in the last 30 years!)

Trans people were known in ancient Greece ffs, it's mostly thanks to the Catholic church and its "morals" that we ended up with imprisoning people for being gay or trans.

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Do you have citations for that being the reason? And what about societies outside of Catholic influence? Seems odd to blame them.

And I never said they didn’t exist, so I’m not sure why you seem to have an aggressive tone. I know they’ve always existed. But with research showing intersex births becoming more common than ever, I have to wonder if there’s a connection to rates of being trans as well.

The Catholic Church policy on condoms was blamed for the high rates of HIV in Africa and yet if you looked at the stats, the countries where protestantism was more predominant than Catholicism had higher rates and vice versa. Not claiming there was any causation there but the original allegation had no basis. If someone is going to flout church teaching on sex outside marriage they are hardly going to be worried about flouting it by using a condom.

I'm curious why you feel its the Catholic church specifically. My understanding is that strong disapproval of gay or trans people is common throughout the Abrahamic religions.

It is, but he or she said "mostly" because of the catholic church and that might be true, because they are the oldest and still most powerful single organization of the abrahamic religions.

Ehm, oldest only if you count Christianity as a special Judaic sect.

What's an older and more powerful single institution of an abrahamic religion? I can only guess you are referring to something involving Judaism but there is nothing even remotely like the Catholic church (large, rich, organized, formal creed, central authority, standardized practice across large territories) in thousands of years of the history of Judaism.

Is there an older Abrahamic organization? He did say organization.

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