Pope Francis faced calls to overturn the Catholic Church’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender people on Oct 12 when he held talks with LGBTQ activists at the Vatican. The 80-minute meeting, held privately at the guesthouse where the pontiff lives, included a Catholic sister who works with LGBTQ people, a member of the transgender community, and an American medical doctor who helps run a clinic providing gender-affirming hormonal care for adults. “I really wanted to share with Pope Francis about the joy that I have being a transgender Catholic person,” Mr Michael Sennett, who took part in the meeting, told Reuters.