Responding to the USCCB’s Letter on Transgender Guidance
On December 15, The United State’s Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) released an open letter titled Created Male and Female. This most recent open letter by the USCCB comes after another year of rape and assault accusations in the Roman Catholic Church but the USCCB decided to comment on their support of male-female marriage, and against affirming children’s transgender identities. In the letter they write the following:
Children especially are harmed when they are told that they can “change” their sex or, further, given hormones that will affect their development and possibly render them infertile as adults. Parents deserve better guidance on these important decisions, and we urge our medical institutions to honor the basic medical principle of “first, do no harm.” Gender ideology harms individuals and societies by sowing confusion and self-doubt. The state itself has a compelling interest, therefore, in maintaining policies that uphold the scientific fact of human biology and supporting the social institutions and norms that surround it.
The movement today to enforce the false idea — that a man can be or become a woman or vice versa — is deeply troubling. It compels people to either go against reason — that is, to agree with something that is not true — or face ridicule, marginalization, and other forms of…
