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Posted: 2019-09-18T18:22:59Z | Updated: 2019-09-19T16:38:07Z

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos hit the road this week for what her department calls a 2019 Back-to-School tour . Her itinerary includes a school that bans transgender students and staff, HuffPost has discovered.

DeVos on Thursday is scheduled to visit Harrisburg Catholic Elementary School in Pennsylvania, part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg. The diocese has a specific policy for students and staff who may be experiencing gender identity questions, applicable in situations where a person wants to chemically and/or surgically alter their biological sex.

This is understood in Catholic moral terms as self-mutilation and therefore immoral. To attempt to make accommodations for such persons would be to cooperate in the immoral action, says the policy , posted on the diocese website.

The policy says students will be unable to enroll or continue to attend diocese schools if they undergo or have undergone such a procedure. The policy similarly applies to staff.

The diocese also forbids its schools from employing any individual who promotes, procures, assists, or performs an abortion.

The diocese did not immediately respond to questions about the policy.