In a recent post I told of Pope Francis' statement that "Gender ideology is demonic!" We now read of a 73-year-old American transsexual who has just won a
verdict that Medicare must pay his/her medical expenses for genital
reconstruction surgery. He (or she) had been living as a woman off and on ever
since he was a teenager, but at the age of 68 he decided to make a permanent
sex reassignment. Given that same-sex marriage is legal in 19 states, many are
pushing the cause of transgender people as the new new civil rights movement. The
complete normality of transexualism is becoming the new accepted view, as people
are increasingly afraid of saying no to any desire as long as it hurts no one
else. Before jumping on this bandwagon, it might behoove us to consider the the fruits of this procedure. Those with transsexualism,
after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behavior,
and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Findings suggest that
sex reassignment, although lessening gender dysphoria, may not suffice as
treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and
somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. Yes, patients who suffer
from gender dysphoria deserve sympathy and psychiatric treatment, not
government funding for mutilating surgery.
It comes as no surprise to the thinking Catholic that since the onset of the sexual revolution we have had to face an ever-increasing array of sexual problems. One has only to think of the tremendous increase in the number of illegitimate births and abortions, sexually transmitted diseases, opposition to censorship of pornography (especially on the Internet), and the resulting sexual addiction (in some extreme instances resulting in murder). Consider too the tremendous blows to marriage and the family done by adultery, the battle over the homosexual lifestyle in the United States, Canada and Europe (now to the point of the redefinition of marriage under the law); the increasing incidences of sexual harassment, child pornography on the Internet, Internet predators, the collegiate "rape culture", and of course, the divorce rate. Read the following and weep (or pray): Online harassment of women at risk of becoming 'established norm', study finds Australian re...
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