Let us pray they’re never defrocked...

I SUPPOSE it was only a matter of time. The Church of England, always eager to hurl itself under any passing bandwagon, is appealing for transgender people to train as vicars. Bishops in the Lichfield diocese are writing to clergy claiming that recruiting trans priests will encourage more young people to join their congregations. Where did they get that idea? Still, it ticks the diversity box and will help solve the shortage of women vicars. If they don’t get enough applications from transgender people, no problem. A man recently applied to the Labour Party to become a women’s officer by claiming that he identified as a woman, but only on Wednesdays. The C of E could always ask its existing male vicars to identify as female every other Sunday.