As much of the world celebrates Pride Month with demands to accept that gender is more complex and fluid than the binary categorization of male and female, the Vatican has slammed modern gender theory, claiming in a new document that it seeks to “annihilate the notion of ‘nature’”.
(Tyler Durden’s article reprinted from ZeroHedge)
The document, titled “Masculinity and Femininity: He Created Them,” was released by the Vatican on June 10 without prior announcement. Described as an aid to Catholic school teachers and parents on how to address the topic of gender theory in light of Church teaching, the document questions the motives of transgender people, calling their gender transition “merely a ‘provocative’ display.”
As NCR reports, the text begins by stating that society is facing “a crisis in education, especially in the emotional and sexual spheres.”
It then claims that the “disorientation” of culture has destabilized the family as an institution and “brought about a tendency to eliminate differences between men and women, presenting them instead as mere products of historical and cultural conditioning”.
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“From a genetic point of view, male cells (containing XY chromosomes) are different from female cells (with XX chromosomes) from the moment of conception”
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If a child is born with ambiguous sex of external genitalia, it will say “it is a medical professional who can intervene therapeutically”.
“In this case, parents cannot make arbitrary choices on this issue, let alone society,” it suggests.
“Instead, medicine should act purely for therapeutic purposes and intervene in the least invasive way, based on objective parameters in order to establish the constitutive identity of the individual.”
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Finally, the document denounces theories that seek to “annihilate the concept of nature” as well as “educational programs and legislative trends that are …… A radical break with the actual biological differences between males and females”.
The Vatican has stated that the goal of this “total separation” of sexes and genders is to achieve “a society free of gender differences”.
As expected, Reuters reported that LGBT rights advocates denounced the 30-page document as harmful and confusing, saying it encourages hatred and bigotry.
Groups serving LGBT Catholics immediately criticized the document. New Ways Ministry (NWM) is one such group, as it calls it:
“This harmful tool will be used to oppress and victimize not only transgender people, but lesbian, gay [and] bisexual people as well.”
The educational aid does not have Pope Francis’ signature, and the text makes no mention of a papal review of the document, but Francis was defined as “whom I should judge” during his early pontificate, and he made contradictory comments about gender theory and transgender people during his six-year tenure as pope.