Posted on 08/26/2021 11:55:59 PM PDT by blueplum
A Washington-area Catholic bishop has issued a letter rebutting the transgender movement root and branch, calling gender reassignment “wrong and harmful” and saying everyone is male or female as seen in that person’s body.
“The Church teaches that a person is created male or female,” Bishop Michael F. Burbidge of Arlington wrote. “No one ‘is’ transgender.”...
...Bishop Burbidge said the church wants to lead people who feel discomfort with their biological sex “to the truth and to healing.” He warned against efforts to affirm such dysphoria as an identity as “pernicious” and a form of false charity....
...The bishop added that “to use names and pronouns that contradict the person’s God-given identity,” which includes biological sex as present before birth and in the body “is to speak falsely.”....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
What I can’t understand is why, if a person thinks they are the opposite sex, do they not test to see if they are deficient of their own sex hormones, or suffering from some mechanism such as faulty pituitary or thyroid that is blocking efficient metabolism of their own sex hormones?
Science, properly understood, is an open-ended method of investigation of very specific circumstances which are dynamic and may change, necessitating more investigation; it does not mean "a hard-and-fast conclusion applying to the widest possible range of liberally defined similar circumstances."
The way they are using "the science" is simply a fascist buzzword meaning "do what we say."
I was low on thyroid hormones since I was a teen (or even before that). It wrecked havoc on my body for decades. After they removed my thyroid, the meds were always too much. Both hypo and hyper were absolutely nightmarish. I’m on T3 only now, which is much better and am still trying to find the right dose. Someone that would put opposite sex hormones in their body would have to be nuts, suicidal or both.
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