Contemporary interventions to alter the body “for what is termed ‘gender dysphoria’ or ‘gender incongruence,’” the paper says, are “not morally justified … they do not repair a defect in the body; there is no disorder in the body that needs to be addressed.
“Such interventions, thus, do not respect the fundamental order of the human person as an intrinsic unity of body and soul, with a body that is sexually differentiated. … Catholic heath care services must not perform interventions, whether surgical or chemical, that aim to transform the sexual characteristics of a human body into those of the opposite sex.”
Source: Washington Post story HERE.
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