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hyflyer64
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Antrim, are speeking for yourself??? You don’t need to answer that!!
What follows is something that I posted on another thread.
I do hope that you all will read through and hopefully do a bit of research. I do have facts and sources to back up what follows and will make it obvious if I’m expressing an opinion. Also I have made BOLD things that I feel are most important.
As posted ealier,I quote from a Vatican released document in 2003.
"After years of study, the Vatican’s doctrinal congregation has sent church leaders a confidential document concluding that “sex-change” procedures do not change a person’s gender in the eyes of the church.
The Vatican document’s specific points include:
1 An analysis of the moral licitness of “sex-change” operations. It concludes that the procedure could be morally acceptable in certain extreme cases if a medical probability exists that it will “cure” the patient’s internal turmoil.
2 But a source familiar with the document said recent medical evidence suggested that in a majority of cases the procedure increases the likelihood of depression and psychic disturbance.
3 A provision giving religious superiors administrative authority to expel a member of the community who has undergone the procedure. In most cases of expulsion from religious life, the superior must conduct a trial.
4 A recommendation of psychiatric treatment and spiritual counseling for transsexual priests. It suggests they can continue to exercise their ministry privately if it does not cause scandal.
5 A conclusion that those who undergo sex-change operations are unsuitable candidates for priesthood and religious life because of mental instability.
6 A conclusion that people who have undergone a sex-change operation cannot enter into a valid marriage, either because they would be marrying someone of the same sex in the eyes of the church or because their mental state casts doubt on their ability to make and uphold their marriage vows.
7 An affirmation of the validity of marriages in which one partner later undergoes the procedure, unless a church tribunal determines that a transsexual disposition predated the wedding ceremony.
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What people don’t realize is that this document came out in response to the fact that an Italian priest had a sex change operation back in the late 1980s. It was prepared by Fr.Navarrete a Jesuit priest, now a Cardinal, an expert on canon law.
“specific point” #2.
However, he was not an expert on sexual matters so he turned to some one that was supposed to be. Dr. Paul McHugh of John Hopkins University. McHugh became the Vaticans advisor on sexual matters. John Hopkins was one of the first institutions in the States to do Sexual Reasignment Surgery ( SRS ). “In the late 1970s, the climate began to change. The first signs were seen at Johns Hopkins, where the chairman of the Psychiatry department, Dr. Joel Elkes, was replaced by Dr. Paul McHugh. McHugh saw SRS as unnecessary mutilation, and set out to kill the program. He assigned Dr. John Meyer to do a long-term follow-up study of 50 transsexuals who underwent SRS at Johns Hopkins. Meyer’s report, issued in 1977, claimed that SRS confers no objective advantage in terms of social rehabilitation for transsexuals. Although the paper was widely criticized for methodological flaws, while other studies have shown that Meyer’s study was incorrect in its conclusions. it led to the October 1979 closing of the Johns Hopkins Gender Identity Clinic.”
Quoting from another source: “Sex- reassignment surgery has proven to be the only successful treatment for these patients, and yet for some reason he ( McHugh ) wishes to deny this. He makes a rather clumsy attempt to justify his position by comparing the treatment of adults who are transsexual with the treatment of children who are intersexed. Ironically, the arguments for one contradict the arguments for the other. Children who are intersexed have traditionally been surgically altered in whatever manner is simplest. This has often resulted in a child who has a male brain being given a female body. As Dr. McHugh points out, such a child is tormented by the attempt to force him to live at odds with his natural inclinations. And yet, he cannot find the compassion to provide treatment to those who, for whatever reason, were born male but whose brains were not sexualized as male in the womb. Even though both groups face the same set of problems, Dr. McHugh sets out to protect one group while effectively punishing the other.”
One only has to do a bit of research to see that Dr. McHugh has continues to disregard and discredit all recent studies in support of “true” transexuality as being a “congenital intersexual condition”!!?? One has to ask, “Why??”.
Bottom line, being transexual and having SRS in not a sin, nor is immoral. Up to 50% of trans teenagers, up to age 20, attempt suicide. Way too many succeed.
Why so many?? It’s not because they are at odds with their desires, it’s because society does not accept them. It makes fun of them. Ridicules, and humiliates them.
Does anyone relate to being “different” when in school??
After surgery, the suicide rate drops to below national average.
Why?? Because they can now blend in and be who they should have been to begin with.
Now when you see words like “feel” and “desire”, they do not really describe the emotions that a transexual experiences. What they and “I” experience/experienced, is a drive that can’t be denied. A voice that can’t be quieted, that has to be answered, or else.
People say that we have a choice! Yes we do!
I chose to live!!
