The Pope is 100% behind this “transgender” nonsense, based on the thing he did earlier this year where he brought a woman who thought she was becoming a man to visit him in the Vatican after she got upset because her priest had told her (quite rightly) that she was being tempted by Satan.
Rather than trying to help these poor people, many of whom commit suicide or even try to reverse the process and go back to their actual sex after a few years, he is just blandly nodding his silly head because he knows this will get him worshipped by the press, since they regard this as absolutely the least Christian and therefore coolest thing on earth. And for goodness sake, we wouldn’t want the Pope not to be cool in the eyes of the media...
That said, the whole point of the footwashing was for the boss (Jesus) to be serving the underlings (the Apostles, representing the future bishops and their delegates, the priests). These staged photo-ops where the boss can preen and boast about how wonderful and charitable he is to the little people are somewhat outside of the original plan, I suspect.
Is he a vain fool or is he a manipulative modernist to whom clings the scent of lavender rather than the "smell of the sheep"?