[NYer]

Catholic ping!

[Gaffer]

“Transgender is the New Black.”

[exDemMom]

Gender theorists hold that “sex” may be what a person is biologically, but gender is what the person believes himself or herself to be. Such theorists posit that people should be able to identify as male, female, neither or both, despite increasing evidence to suggest that gender theory is confusing and harming children.

A theory is an explanation that ties together observed facts and makes testable predictions of new facts possible. Theories can be refined over time to increase their predictive powers. They may not be completely accurate, especially when first developed, but they are the best possible explanation of scientific principles that account for the known, observed facts.

By the scientific definition of "theory", gender "theory" is nowhere close to being a theory. It is, rather, some misfit's idea of a utopia which they believe attainable if they can only force enough people to their way of thinking.

I do not doubt that societal views of gender make some people desperately wish they were born as a person of the other gender. However, that dissatisfaction with oneself does not constitute evidence of the silly notion that men really are born into the bodies of women or vice versa.

An infant man in the womb is subject to the shaping influences of testosterone, which he produces very early during embryonic development. That hormonal influence shapes his body and his brain, which, in turn, shapes his thinking and perception of the world. The hormonal influence becomes even stronger when the young man enters puberty. This notion that he can somehow be a "woman trapped in a man's body" is ludicrous and not supported by physical evidence. That he can be unhappy being a man, that he sensed that his parents really wanted a girl, etc., may be very true, but it is indicative that he needs psychological help, not body mutilation.

[Catsrus]

Since marriage is a sign of God’s love for mankind - then why not allow priests and sisters to marry?

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

-— Earlier this year, Puerto Ricans took to the streets protesting the incorporation of gender theory in the public school curriculum. -—

Thank God that some parents somewhere care to fight.

[BlackAdderess]

It seems to me that we come in two varieties, male and female. After that we are people, or man (as in male and female created He them). The advertisers are the ones who took this gender thing and ran with it because imposing overly rigid social constructs on people makes them insecure, and you can sell an awful lot to insecure people.

[BlackAdderess]

If they want to split gender from sex, then sex is science, gender is social custom.

[I want the USA back]

Good. Maybe he does know something about Catholic teachings after all.