Francis met with a group of self-professed 'LGBT,' 'transgender,' and intersex people at the Vatican today, who urged him to approve 'sex-change' surgeries.
The fight is causing controversy online, with many pointing to the fact that while Yu-ting does not identify as intersex or as transgender, the boxer was previously stripped of an International Boxing Association medal after reportedly failing a sex test.
The 2017 proposal mentioned “individuals with intersex traits” as a new protected category and called for condemnation of undefined “homophobia and transphobia.”