Catholic school supporting student's choice to become transgender

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Basic dignity means calling a person by their name. Legally in the United States people can change their name to whatever they want to, and that’s a good thing too because sometimes the name a person’s parents gave to them can become a detriment.

I’ll repeat myself; if someone says “My name is John”, and you say “No it’s Beth!” and insist on only calling him Beth then you’re not a “hero” or a “champion of the church”, you’re just a bully. Even most priests and bishops, when they meet transgender people, call them by the name they actually want.
 
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Tolle_Lege said:
A sickeningly sinful choice by the parents and school alike. God will judge - not kindly.
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Is this conclusion reached solely on the info provided in this thread, or do you have more information on the situation of the young person involved?

By the way, what name does the church give to the sin to which you refer?
 
It must be called bluntly what it is: evil, disgusting, perverted, and child abuse. Funny how just 10 years ago there wasn’t this epidemic of kids being trapped in the wrong body, but all of the sudden when they put 10 year old drag queens on TV and start having perverted men dressed up as grotesque caricatures reading to children in library, there’s a huge surge of parents becoming “woke” that their boy is a girl and vice versa. I will bet that the large number of these cases involves so-called “progressive” parents planting the seed in their kids’ heads that they’re actually the wrong gender so they can parade around their trans kid as a “woke” trophy.

Transgenderism is against the Catholic faith.

Calling someone else a “preferred” name at its root is telling a lie. The Church stands for truth, not lies. Christ is the way and the TRUTH. It is NOT true that people are trapped in the wrong bodies. This way of thinking hearkens back to the earliest heresies. It’s evil.
 
Tolle_Lege said:
God was wrong, He did not put the correct gender in your body.
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God was wrong? Gender Dysphoria arises when the brain - which forms an image of self - can’t reconcile that image with the body. It’s real. And in extreme cases causes immense distress. This condition and a myriad others we as human beings suffer are not God’s errors but an outcome of our human nature.
 
Thom18 said:
we would hope that a supposedly Catholic institution would know what to do in such a situation when someone- even a child- asks for this.
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Would they? The situation of persons suffering this condition is exceptionally difficult. There is no known psychological treatment.
 
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Thom18:
we would hope that a supposedly Catholic institution would know what to do in such a situation when someone- even a child- asks for this.
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Would they? The situation of persons suffering this condition is exceptionally difficult. There is no known psychological treatment.
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And it’s not a school’s responsibility to diagnose or treat psychological ailments. It is a school’s duty, however, to teach, and to teach well. A Catholic school in particular has the added duty to teach about God and His Law, and to stand by those teachings when challenges are presented. Affirming an individual in their dysphoria is contrary to that mission, and there are a myriad of other routes a school could go down before concluding that affirmation is the way to go.
 
Thom18 said:
Affirming an individual in their dysphoria is contrary to that mission, and there are a myriad of other routes a school could go down before concluding that affirmation is the way to go.
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What routes? Are they dependent on the severity of the person’s condition? Do you suggest that allowing the change of social role (adopt the appearance of the other gender) may be ok in some circumstances? We have to assume that this student is following medical advice.
 
There’s so much that’s unknown about gender dysphoria and it’s causes , and it’s extremely legally problematic to study or try to do research to heal it.

This case reminds me of the “single female teacher becomes pregnant while hired at a Christian school” dilemma that was making the rounds some years back (and now seems so terribly quaint).

On the one hand, if the school conforms to the parents (of the patient) wishes, are they cooperating in an experiment on some kid that will have long term negative effects on the kid?
If they expell the kid, is this the same as shunning, or rejecting the kids who clearly has serious psychological problems?
If they keep the kid and affirm affirm affirm, is this giving ideas to other kids? There’s a tremendous amount of monkey-see monkey-do in this age group.
Do the parents of the other kids have any rights at all? Being forced to play along with some stranger kid’s delusions? When there’s so much we don’t lnow and aren’t allowed to study about this?
The parents who are (rightfully) uneasy about his are now being cast into the role of villain over something they never caused and didn’t go seeking out.
 
Wow. I don’t know what’s worse - this school allowing this scandal or so many people defending it as a “charitable” action. It shows how deeply the lgbt agenda is ingrained in society, that we can’t see the difference between loving the person and validating the sin.

No one is suggesting that anyone should be unkind to this child; the issue is that in a Catholic school students are supposed to live a moral life and not scandalize others. Some schools for example will expel a girl if she gets pregnant, not to be mean or uncharitable but to avoid scandal. For the same reason that a teacher in an open same-sex relationship shouldn’t be hired to teach at a Catholic school, this child should not be allowed to come to school “as a boy.” So the question here is not, how should this child be treated when she comes in as a boy, but rather, why is the child allowed to come as a boy in the first place?
 
Aren’t Catholic institutions protected by some sort of a religious exemption that would allow them to enforce their teachings? Many have teachers sign an affidavit of good moral character, isn’t that legal?
 
LisaB said:
Aren’t Catholic institutions protected by some sort of a religious exemption that would allow them to enforce their teachings? Many have teachers sign an affidavit of good moral character, isn’t that legal?
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I’m not sure there is a teaching that explicitly says what one may or may not do in response to a gender dysphoria condition. The church has spoken sensibly about gender ideology issues, but not specifically to the measures that are in some cases recommended to ease the suffering of dysphoria sufferers.
 
Could you provide a reference to where the Church has addressed alternative responses/treatments to gender dysphoria?
 
There a lot of conditions without a cure, with only treatment to relieve pain and discomfort. Transitioning relieves the dysphoria.
 
Bruised_Reed said:
Transitioning relieves the dysphoria.
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I remember when lobotomies were the “only thing” that relieved some people’s’ agitation and compulsive thoughts.

I remember when “always believe and never question” was the “only thing” that relieved the distress from Repressed Memories (which was later debunked).

Is transitioning really the “only thing”? Or is it the only legal thing once it’s been pretty much outlawed to study or develop other treatments? (And even “watchful waiting” is considered neglect in some circles).
 
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There’s no need for informed consent or legal age to transition socially. Children and adult with gender dysphoria do so secretly, on their own.
 
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