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Susie Leafe

Date posted: 1 Feb 2019

‘Gilbert and Sullivan, P.G. Wodehouse and Alan Ayckbourn in concert couldn’t have written a better farce’, was how one incumbent expressed his concern over the recent Pastoral Guidance on trans issues from the Church of England’s House of Bishops.

The saga began in 2017, when General Synod asked the bishops, ‘to consider whether some nationally commended liturgical materials might be prepared to mark a person’s gender transition’. Simultaneously, Synod rejected the suggestion of considering ‘the substantial theological and pastoral issues raised’.