Kudos to Newsweek for balancing out its usual “DaVinci Code”-enthusiasm for unorthodox views of Christianity with a book excerpt from the Pope’s new book on Jesus. But the news magazine couldn’t have made its own strikingly different ideology any clearer than the cover story in the same issue on how “The new visibility of Transgender America is shedding light on the ancient riddle of identity.”

Debra Rosenberg’s story is largely an editorial for transgender acceptance, and the fluidity of gender: “What is gender anyway? It is certainly more than the physical details of what’s between our legs.” Her story ends with a nine-year-old girl simply known as “M.” who is now being treated as a boy by her parents: “That’s a big step for a family, but could be an even bigger one for the rest of the world.”