Frock wearing top Catholic wizard Pope Francis has decided that transgender people are a crime against God.

“They teach children -children!- that they can choose gender!” he exclaimed to cries of “And?”

“Thank God for that,” said Homer J Fohb, spokesman for Rochdale think-tank Catholics United against New Things;

“Now we’ve had to accept women as equals and we’re not allowed kick the shit out of poofters we really need a group to be ignorantly hateful towards! ”

Biologists, psychologists, anthropologists and ethologists have been pointing out for years that gender as we tend to think of it is entirely cultural and that many groups of humans whose societies formed before all this ‘One True God’ nonsense recognised several genders but a Vatican spokesbloke was having none of it:

“His Holiness the Pope spoke to his Holiness the previous Pope and they decided that as in the Bible and our documents it only mentions binary gender and doesn’t mention changing that all this must be nonsense,” argued Monsignor Pedro Felias, “People are born male or female and God can’t change His mind. Except about all the things He’s changed his mind on. Like black people having souls, queers being Satanic and letting Popes stop being Popes.”

Daisy McFirth, a trans women told us, “Yeah, these are people who wear dresses all day and say I shouldn’t because it’s unnatural. If only they were as appalled by their mates fucking kids, eh?

Quentin D Fortesqueue is a founding editor of The Rochdale Herald. Part time amateur narcissist and full time satirist Quentin is never happier than when playing his lute and drinking a full bodied Bordeaux. He rarely plays the lute and never gets to drink Bordeaux.