Seattle University, a Jesuit institution in Washington, has released its 2025 “Inclusive Excellence Reading List,” featuring 33 recommended titles from the Office of Diversity and Inclusion. Among them is Transgender Inclusion: All the Things You Want to Ask Your Transgender Coworker but Shouldn’t, which promotes workplace strategies for engaging with transgender individuals and explores medical, legal, and social transitions.
Other books include Faux Feminism: Why We Fall for White Feminism and How We Can Stop, and One Day I’ll Grow Up and Be a Beautiful Woman: A Mother’s Story, which follows a mother supporting her child’s gender transition while opposing state-level restrictions on transgender youth.
Critics argue the list reflects a broader trend of progressive ideology overtaking faith-based education. They warn that pushing transgender workplace guides at a Jesuit institution marks a shift away from historic Catholic teachings on gender and human identity. The concern centers on religious institutions embracing cultural norms that contradict biblical views on creation and sexuality.
