In Australia, transgender people aged 18 and over are nearly eleven times more likely to commit suicide than the general population, and LGBT+ advocacy groups are worried that that could increase. That’s because last week, in the midst of Pride Month, the Vatican released sex education tool for Catholic parents and teachers called Male and Female He Created Them, which rejects the idea that a person can change or choose their gender.

To find out what this could mean for young Aussies who attend religious schools, Tess talked to Dr Victoria Rawlings from Sydney University.