The Theology of Transgenderism - The Catholic Thing

Does Eucharistic consecration help us understand transgenderism? The renowned atheist Richard Dawkins thinks so. In an interview with fellow atheist Peter Boghossian, Dawkins made this provocative comparison:
There’s a very strong analogy to transubstantiation in transexualism. . . .The wine becomes blood when the priest simply declares that it is. And a male person becomes female when he declares himself to be female. And in the Aristotelian terms the substance has changed – the substance of wine has changed to blood; the substance of maleness has changed to femaleness. But the accidentals, the incidentals, are what are regarded by Catholics as trivial and by trans people as trivial, so they really believe that they have become the other sex.
This analogy doesn’t just limp; it has things backwards. In Eucharistic consecration, the essence is changed, while the appearances remain. What still tastes and smells like wine is in fact no longer wine. It is entirely the blood of Christ, and …