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18 AUGUST 24-SEPTEMBER 14, 2019 | DENVER CATHOLIC Around the Archdiocese WE NEED YOU AT THE MEAL THAT SERVES MANY PLEASE JOIN US FOR THE 4TH ANNUAL SAMARITAN HOUSE BENEFIT DINNER WITH KYLE DYER, EMCEE Saturday, September 14, 2019 at 6 p.m. Mile High Station, 2027 Old West Colfax Ave., Denver, CO 80204 Thousands of people experiencing homelessness have been provided safe shelter, hot meals, love and compassion at Samaritan House since 1986. FOR SPONSORSHIPS AND MORE INFORMATION: Shelly Saeman at ssaeman@ccdenver.org or 720.799.9289 Tickets Available Now! SamsSupper.org SAMARITAN HOUSE 30 YEARS OF MERCY SAM S JAM SAM S sUPPER ' ' — T H E M E A L T H AT S E R V E S M A N Y — honoring The Peltes Family Come to the table of the meal that serves many REGISTER NOW! ACROSS 1 Bishop Romero 6 Mountain range 10 Luxurious 14 Xbox ancestor 15 Where Samson slew the Philistines (Jdg 15:9) 16 ___ boy! 17 ___ voce 18 Semi- monthly tide 19 Rivers in Spain 20 Serpent's tail? 21 East Indian tree 23 Jonah follower 24 Fawning 26 Corp. VIPs 28 "Double Fantasy" artist 29 Prayers of the ___ 33 Allot 36 Vex 37 Malt beverage 38 ___ News 39 the Arch- diocese of Accra is here 41 Fortune- teller's phrase 42 Friendly skies flier (abbr.) 43 He was in "The God- father" and "Misery" 44 Title for Jesus 46 Odorif- erous 48 Center starter 49 Eve's second 50 Possessing knowledge 54 These were waved at Jesus when he entered Jerusalem 57 Beanies 58 Color TV pioneer 59 Minute quantity 60 Member of the long grey line 62 The "A," for one 64 Timber wolf 65 Monk's room 66 Tied 67 Encum- brance 68 Easy stride 69 Very hard mineral DOWN 1 Patriarch respite, perhaps 2 Jesus referred to Himself as this, rejected by the builders 3 Provide food 4 Catholic actor Carney 5 Causing chaos 6 Forearm bones 7 Fetor 8 Expression of triumph 9 Sass 10 Aristide's In the ___ of the Poor 11 Auricular 12 Portico 13 Slung fare 22 Lengthen 23 Speck 25 Empty 26 First murderer 27 Fine thread 29 Former Parisian exchange 30 Ash Wednes- day and Good Friday require- ment 31 Peter Fonda "golden" role 32 Sly look 33 Element of Baptism, to Pedro 34 Fly 35 Musical compo- sition for one 40 "___ Holy Queen" 41 Egyptian goddess of fertility 43 Cars for hire 45 One of the Twelve 47 You cannot serve God and this (Mt 6:24) 50 Catholic actor of "Gone with the Wind" fame 51 Vestige 52 More aloof 53 Easter treat 54 Altar linen 55 To you, to Pierre 56 Roundish projection 57 "Our soul waits for the Lord; he is our ___ and shield" (Ps 33:20) 60 Former DRE 61 Heavenly lion 63 An ances- tor of Jesus, in Matthew 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 1 1 2 1 3 1 4 1 5 1 6 1 7 1 8 1 9 1 0 2 1 2 2 2 3 2 4 2 5 2 6 2 7 2 8 2 9 0 2 3 1 3 2 3 3 3 4 3 5 3 6 3 7 3 8 3 9 3 0 4 1 4 2 4 3 4 4 4 5 4 6 4 7 4 8 4 9 5 0 5 1 5 2 5 3 5 4 5 5 5 6 5 7 5 8 5 9 5 0 6 1 6 2 6 3 6 4 6 5 6 6 6 7 6 8 6 9 6 m o c . s c i l o h t a c r o f s e m a g d r o w . w w w BY AARON LAMBERT E mily Zinos may not be a scholar or a doctor, but as a concerned mom who sees the danger of the transgender trend, she brings a unique perspective to the conversation and articulates it better than most. The St. Paul, Minn., mother of seven (with an eighth on the way) could no longer remain silent on the issue when during the 12th year of her kids attend- ing a local public charter school, the gender issue "landed on my doorstep." "We had a kindergartner in school and the parents said that [he] the fi ve- year-old boy was gender-nonconform- ing," Zinos told the Denver Catholic. "I really hadn't heard of the phenom- enon of kids identifying as trans or gender-nonconforming until that hap- pened. But whe n it did, I had really no choice but to speak up." Since then, Zinos has equipped herself to dialogue e¨ ectively on the transgender issue and wants to give other parents the tools to do the same. Zinos will be a featured speaker at the Made This Way conference Sept. 10 at St. Thomas More Parish in Centennial, hosted by Denver's Respect Life Oª ce. Joining her will be Alabama-based plas- tic and reconstructive surgeon Deacon Patrick Lappert, MD, who will explain the medical and psychological conse- quences resulting from cross-sex hor- mones and surgeries. Zinos is the author of the National Parent Resource Guide, an adopted ver- sion of the Minnesota Parent Resource Guide, which she also wrote. The guide seeks to clarify confusing terminology, describe the health consequences of the transgender trend, debunk myths and provide parents with the tools to advo- cate for a "genuinely inclusive environ- ment" in their kids' own schools. "Most everything people are reading or hearing about transgender-identi- fi ed kids is going from advocacy groups who have an interest in people coming to a very particular conclusion," Zinos said. "Unfortunately, that [means] that thousands of kids across the country are losing their fertility and losing their heathy body parts. I really think that needs to stop." The guide was vetted by experts in law, medicine and education, Zinos said, and it is also co-branded by fi ve di¨ erent organizations that "come from across the political spectrum." Zinos' e¨ orts do not come from a place of hate or bigotry, as some critics might be quick to accuse her of. Rather, she is simply a mom who is trying to lovingly communicate the truth about the human person as created by God and present the dangers of this trend as it becomes more accepted. However, it must be done charitably, she stressed. "The way we communicate in public, the way we maintain relationships with people in our lives [who] identify as trans have to be infused with charity," Zinos said. "And charity doesn't exist outside of truth." How do we respond to the transgender trend? Conference seeks to empower parents with facts about the gender movement MADE THIS WAY Tuesday, Sept. 10, 6:30 p.m., $10 St. Thomas More, McCallin Hall Register at respectlifedenver.org Emily Zinos will be one of the featured speakers at the Made This Way conference Sept. 10. PHOTO PROVIDED i

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