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What would you say the pope would say if we had actual etiology with a highly predictive biological test for trans? I also wonder what progressives would say for those who tested negative and want to claim the identity.
Symptom alleviation and palliative care towards conformity with biological sex?
Catholic doctrine does not have room for trans as, like, a real thing. It might be a mental illness contracted through no fault of the individual’s own, but the onus is on the individual to seek to conform with biological sex roles. It might be a hormone disorder, but treatment would be to adjust trans women’s hormones towards a more typical Hetero-male profile. It might be a social contagion, but the onus is on the individual to seek to conform themselves to the will of God. What it most certainly isn’t is women in men’s bodies that society has to accommodate. Some individuals- like the entire LGBT community- simply have a hard time conforming to the will of God, but that doesn’t make God’s will the one that is wrong.
But do the genitals at birth necessarily correspond to God's will more than experienced gender identity does?
(also, given the Church's recent history, concerning themselves with the genitals of infants is, as they say, Not A Good Look.)
It seems likely. I mean, if someone says they're actually a fish, and if we had the technology to turn them into a fish, we'd still probably err on the side of their mind having a problem as opposed to their bodies having a problem. If someone is physically male but claims to be a female, either their body or their mind is wrong. Given all the ways the mind can go wrong, and given that there is nothing obviously abnormal about their body, it seems reasonable to assume the abnormality is in the mind. Especially since we can't actually physically change someone from a male to a female or vice versa, we can make them look and feel a bit more like the other gender.
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