Gender Ideology

GENDER DYSPHORIA is a psychological condition described in detail in the DSM-V. Almost all persons who describe themselves as “transgender” can be diagnosed as suffering from gender dysphoria employing the characteristics described in the DSM 5. The majority of children suffering from gender dysphoria will outgrow the symptoms without any treatment, and in time come to accept accept their natal gender, usually by adolescence.

DESPITE clear scientific evidence to the contrary (Sexuality and Gender 2016r; ACP 2017) and under increasing social pressure to normalize “Gender Theory” and transsexualism (Kheriaty), professional medical organizations have, with a few exceptions (ACP 2017), begun to regard hormonal and surgical “transition” for both adults and children as legitimate treatment for gender dysphoria (AAP, 2018; AJP, 2019; C.of E., 2017), often employing the rationale of suicide-prevention.

GENDER IDEOLOGY is a term used by Pope Francis in Amoris Laetitia and elsewhere to describe the promotion and imposition on economically underdeveloped nations of non-traditional understandings of gender and sexual attraction, promoted chiefly by developed nations in Europe and by the United States and sometimes made a condition of economic aid. In 2017 the Vatican Congregation for Education expanded on Pope Francis’ observations in Amoris Laetitia and offered suggestions for dialogue and accompaniment in the are of education: Male and Female He Created Them.

A community of people who question the medicalization of gender-atypical youth https://4thwavenow.com/

A PASTORAL APPROACH
to GENDER IDEOLOGY
and “TRANSITION”

Emmaus, Ducio

UNDERLYING these 8 steps is a twofold pastoral goal:

1. That the person be helped to SLOW DOWN, take things gradually, and not be pressured into making sudden, uninformed decisions that have negative long-term consequences

2. That the person eventually accept and discover the goodness and joy of their enbodied gender.

1. JESUS CHRIST: Begin with PRAYER. Your professional competence is as a priest; not as a psychologist, social worker, or school counselor. Your competence is in the realms of evangelization, celebration of the sacraments, prayer, and balanced use of the means of grace.

2. LISTEN: Discover why the person desires “gender-affirming” treatment?. This will take time and more than one meeting.

3. ACCOMPANY: Be clear within yourself that you desire the good of the person. Collaborate, when appropriate with other professionals and competent persons, but do not simply refer and disappear from that person's life. Be VERY clear on how to contact you and how available you will be.

4. IMMEDIATE GOAL: Be clear within yourself - and do not hide from the person that your goal for them is that the person become comfortable in and accept their own body. Be honest about this and the Church's teaching, but not strident or condescending

5. ACKNOWLEDGE the TRUTH (and at lest the perceived “justice”) of the person's experience:

Do not tell lies or exaggerate . Acknowledge existence of studies supporting “gender-affirming treatment,” and GENTLY point out limitations (esp. long-term consequences).

Admit the pain of stereotypes, injustice, rejection, bullying, abandonment.

Acknowledge the physical and emotional stress of puberty and adolescence (especially the physical changes experienced by women)

Reinforce the truth that you desire the person's good and not merely compliance with moral norms.

6. DISCERN together with them how the person can best draw nearer Christ and avail themselves of the means of grace (prayer, sacramental life, private devotion)

7. ACTIVATE EXISTING COMMUNITY (parish, deanery, diocese): Encourage, form, seek out individuals and groups that encourage alternatives to transition: these include:

Family,

Parenthood,

Friendships.

ACTIVITIES the individual enjoys that AFFIRM their body and gender.

Recommend alternative points of view on Internet as person expresses interest. [Question: What is the feminine analog of sports as an alternative to gangs?]

8. FORM NEW EVANGELISTS. Be aware of and encourage individuals who can mentor or provide emotional support and living examples of alternatives to transition.

On March 28, the US Supreme Court is due to hear a case about transgender bathroom access lodged by a Virginia student, Gavin Grimm. Born a girl, she decided in Year 9 that she was actually a boy. The local school board refused to let her use the boys’ toilets. She sued, and now the case has moved up to the Supreme Court (Gloucester County School Board v GG).

Today we are publishing excerpts from a brief by Dr Judith Reisman, founder of the Child Protection Institute and a research professor at Liberty University School of Law. She is an internationally recognised expert on child sexual abuse and the influence of sexologist Alfred Kinsey.

As the [the Department of Justice and Department of Education Office of Civil Rights] instruct school districts, the purpose of Title IX is to provide a safe and nondiscriminatory environment for all students. Assuming that is true, then its interpretation of Title IX to include “gender identity,” and particularly to compel districts to permit access to sex-separate facilities based solely on perceived gender is in conflict with that purpose. Moreover, the Departments’ advocacy for recognition of “transgender” children fosters experimental, life-changing medical protocols that do not comply with the dictates of medical ethics. Most importantly, the Departments are sanctioning an agenda- driven ideology that threatens the physical, mental and emotional well-being of children.

Despite studies showing that 80 to 95 percent of children who report dissonance between their perceived gender and biological sex find that their perceived gender and biological sex correspond by late adolescence, medical protocols for “transgender” children are calling for earlier intervention with puberty- suppressing drugs and cross-sex hormones. These protocols create irreversible sterility and other life-changing effects to which the children, as minors with immature brains, are unable to give informed consent. Nor can their parents give “informed” consent to such protocols as the long-term consequences of these early interventions are unknown.

There is not a single large, randomized, controlled study that documents the alleged benefits and potential harms to gender-dysphoric children from pubertal suppression and decades of cross- sex hormone use. Nor is there a single long-term, large, randomized, controlled study that compares the outcomes of various toxic synthetic steroids.*

Nevertheless, gender clinics encourage treatments that will suppress puberty “to allow the gender dysphoric child time to explore gender identity free from the emotional distress triggered by the onset of secondary sex characteristics.” These treatments will condemn unknown numbers of children to sterility. In addition, use of puberty- suppressing drugs means that the children will never develop sperm or eggs.

Consequently, they would not even have the chance to harvest and preserve eggs or sperm for future use in assisted reproduction, an option some are given who go through puberty and then begin cross- sex hormones.

Furthermore, neuroscience has documented that children’s brains are cognitively immature until the early to mid- twenties. Scientists can digitally map how the brain develops, and have found that the portions of the brain that permit processing of complex concepts, such as “gender identity,” evaluating risk and making informed decisions are the last to mature, usually not until the early twenties. This means that children are not only legally, but cognitively incapable of giving informed consent to these treatments. Informed consent is a fundamental ethical requirement, particularly when, as is true for these early interventions, the treatment is irreversible and life-changing. The Nuremberg Code, developed in response to the human experimentation atrocities in Nazi Germany and still relied on in human research, states:

The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, over- reaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion; and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved, as to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision. This latter element requires that, before the acceptance of an affirmative decision by the experimental subject, there should be made known to him the nature, duration, and purpose of the experiment; the method and means by which it is to be conducted; all inconveniences and hazards reasonably to be expected; and the effects upon his health or person, which may possibly come from his participation in the experiment.

Children are not legally capable of giving consent. Even if it could be assumed, arguendo, that parents can consent on behalf of their children, they still cannot give informed consent because the hazards and the effects upon children’s health have not been scientifically determined and therefore cannot be known prior to treatment. By advocating for the inclusion of gender identity in Title IX for elementary and secondary students, the Departments are placing the government’s imprimatur on human experimentation and involuntary sterilization of children wholly bereft of informed consent. Such disregard for the health and safety of children as well as the rule of law should not be given any effect by this Court.

* Michelle Cretella, Gender Dysphoria in Children, American College of Pediatricians, (August 2016 - updated June 2017)

For the complete footnotes and bibliography in Dr Reisman's statement, see her amicus curiae brief.

Dr Judith Reisman served as Principal Investigator for the United States Department of Justice Office of Juvenile Justice on child sexual abuse and child pornography, and has provided expert reports and testimony in cases worldwide. She is an internationally recognized expert on the history, fraudulent research and societal effects of Dr Alfred Kinsey. She has authored five books and hundreds of articles dealing with the implications of Kinsey’s research on law and public policy.

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