I met Pope Francis – he welcomed me as a Catholic trans man

When he shook my hand a second time, I was left shaking (Picture: George White)As Pope Francis shook my hand for a second time and said ‘God bless you’, all I could think was: ‘Wow’. It was October last year and I was sitting beside three other transgender men. We had been brought along by a priest renowned for ministering to transwomen in Italy and who regularly took transgender Catholics to meet the Pope. After his papal audience, he was brought to where