Incredible: English Bishops Preach Common Sense
The bishops note that many erroneous views of the human person dominate the discourse, leading to Catholics being discriminated against or even losing their jobs.
A new language has been imposed to describe "diverse" [= false] ideas, with words and phrases appearing in public discourse such as 'trans', 'transgender', 'gender identity theory', 'born in the wrong body', 'gender fluidity' or 'gender other than the sex assigned at birth'.
The bishops use the term 'gender dysphoria' or 'gender dysphoric persons' for people who are in conflict with their natural gender. They explain that the human person consists of body and soul as a unity. The union of spirit and matter forms a single nature. Real gender and subjectively perceived gender ("gender identity") cannot be separated.
It is necessary to value one's own body in its femininity or masculinity and then [after marriage] to meet someone who is different. The bishops want to help gender confused people to rediscover their humanity as created by God.
They criticise the pressure to encourage adults and children to conform physically to the opposite sex in order to resolve their "gender dysphoria", although "many do not find ultimate happiness in this transition".
The bishops affirm that confused people, "desperate and disturbed in their own sense of self and reality", are known and loved by God.
The weak key sentence: "We cannot encourage support for reconstructive or drug-based medical interventions that harm the body. Nor can we legitimise or support a way of life that doesn't respect the truth and vocation of each man and woman, called to live according to the divine plan.”
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