He continued: "He [the Pope] did not want me to kneel, he held my hand and when I presented myself as a transgender girl he responded that he did not care who I was, that we all have one Father, as if he wanted to tell me, 'you are my sister.'"
When the transgender gave the book to Francis, "he [the Pope] took it and told me, 'Brave girl, you did well writing your story.' Then, he recommended that I always be myself and not to let myself be impressed by prejudices of the Church. ... I felt myself welcomed, taken by the hand and embraced."
So, here's another case (as in all the stuff reported by Scalfari) where the heretical mindset of Begoglio is being reported second-hand. Behind closed doors, with Scalfari, and here with the so-called transgenders, Bergolgio makes abominable statements, referring to "prejudices of the Church". As you point out, in PUBLIC, Bergoglio will make some statements affirming Catholic doctrine (to keep up appearances), but then secretly denounces those same teachings, referring to them here as "prejudices". In doing it this way, Bergoglio can keep a distance from his undermining of Catholic teaching, so his apologists could respond (well, this is what this person said, and it could be misunderstanding or misinterpretation of what Bergoglio actually said). And yet there's never any denial coming out of the Vatican. Scalfari reported clear-cut heresy from Bergoglio, and if he had mis-reported it, the Vatican was under obligation to immediately deny the allegations. But no such denial ever came. So by their silence, we can hold Bergoglio guilty as charged regarding what Scalfari reported. On top of it, Bergoglio CONTINUED to keep giving interviews to Scalfari after some of the explosive allegations were made. One would think that if Scalfari were distorting Bergoglio's beliefs, Bergoglio would at least stop giving him interviews.
First Scalfari said that Bergoglio denied the existence of a hell that lasts forever. Then, after this, they gave him ANOTHER interview, after which he said that Beroglio told him that he didn't believe that Jesus is God. That would be outright apostasy.