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Mark E. Mitchell's avatar

Huzzah for Bishop John Doerfler and for Bishop Michael Burbidge for having the courage to address this issue forthrightly! While having a statement from the USCCB would be helpful—inasmuch as it is faithful to Scripture and Tradition—the lack of a statement from the CDF is scandalous. There are untold numbers of souls at stake, not only those who “identify” as “transgender” but many people of goodwill but poor catechesis who think they must affirm this malady in order to be loving Christians. In an age where “pastoral” means little more than being “nice” and where the poorly educated faithful are under constant assault from the dominant culture, the voice of our Supreme Pontiff is needed—desperately. The transgender movement is the heresy of gnostic dualism with a veneer of modern “science” and for the Vatican to not speak loudly and clearly on this issue is unacceptable. It is, sadly, another example of Pope Francis’ unhelpful confusion and ambiguity on these issues. St. Joseph, Pray for Us!

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Lisa's avatar

One thing the Marquette diocese may be trying to address is not only young people presenting themselves as the opposite sex with dress, appearance, mannerisms and pronouns/names, but also what to do for people who are on cross-sex hormones, taking high doses of the opposite sex hormones. This is a form of ongoing scandal. Girls and women take testosterone and boys and men take spironolactone and estrogen/progesterone. Even with “gender affirming surgery,” the person has to keep taking/injecting these hormones for life if they want to retain their appearance as the opposite sex. “Bottom surgery” ultimately removes the offending gonads but it does not replace the gonads with the donor gonads of the opposite sex to produce the hormones they desire, so the person has to take high doses of these hormones to match those of the opposite sex.

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