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Transgender women near Rome pray for Pope Francis, celebrate his outreach

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Migrant transgender women pray for Pope Francis as he continues to battle pneumonia in Rome hospital.

Pope Francis has made inclusion a hallmark of his papacy; trans people can be baptized as Catholics and serve as godparents.

Many of the women grew up Catholic in Argentina like Francis , and some have met him in person.

They hope that the door he opened toward the marginalized community will not be shut in the future.

“A trans girl would have never imagined in her life that she could see the pope receive her, welcome her, and help her,” Garnica said.

Minerva was a First Communion catechist in her parish in Peru , until she said she was kicked out for her identity.

“I am church not part of the church, I am church because each one of us is church,’ she said.