Pope Francis of the Left is a reliable progressive advocate. He is so bad that there is likely talk in the church of a schism the likes of which we’ve not seen in centuries. Francis has come out on the wrong side of just about every issue until now.
The Vatican declared Monday that transgender surgeries, surrogacy, and gender theory are threats to human dignity, breaking with the progressive approach to social issues that Pope Francis has adopted in recent years. ..
In the document, the Vatican doctrine office formally rejects gender theory and any attempt to change one’s gender, for the most part, while upholding the fact that men and women are biologically different.
“It follows that any sex-change intervention, as a rule, risks threatening the unique dignity the person has received from the moment of conception,” the document reads.
Pope Francis signed it and ordered it to be printed. This is the official position of the Pope and the Vatican, and therefore the Catholic Church. There will be dissent and outrage, but when is there not? Related: Former “Trans man” Says Teens Need to Resist Social Media Pressure to Transition
Timing
The reporting suggests this great work has been in process for five years, which means they’ve been thinking about it for a while. Why release it now? Is it because the WPATH files exposed the self-evident fraud form within the so-called brain-trust reference to justify hormone and therapy for the children progressives have confused about their gender?
Was it the four-year study out of the UK that led to an NHS ban on hormone therapy for anyone under eighteen? Or the move in France to ban both the therapies and surgeries?
How about the fifteen-year study out of the Netherlands showing there was no benefit and that nearly every child who expressed any degree of gender dysphoria grew out of it to become happy and healthy with their birth body?
The American College of Pediatricians recently came out against hormone therapy and surgery for minors, and now the Vatican.
“The child has the right to have a fully human (and not artificially induced) origin and to receive the gift of a life that manifests both the dignity of the giver and that of the receiver,” the document states. “Considering this, the legitimate desire to have a child cannot be transformed into a ‘right to a child’ that fails to respect the dignity of that child as the recipient of the gift of life.”
Closer to my home, a Democrat State Rep named Jonah Wheeler not only voted to protect minors from the trans-train of hormones and surgery, but he spoke before the whole chamber to explain why. Thirteen other Democrats joined him for the final vote, more than offsetting the three Republicans who voted with the rest of the Dems.
Jonah’s Democrat caucus bullied him mercilessly for speaking out, which is ironic. Maybe NH needs a bill to prevent that.
