Intersex Surgeries

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Cruciferi said:
There’s no Gene Therapy Treatment for AIS. They’re always going to look and be perceived as feminine. How they present themselves to the world is up to them.

Here’s an even BIGGER QUESTION: How would the Catholic Church view them Marrying?
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But as children how did you think they should be reared?

I think the church should let the marry. I suspect many such individuals have already.
 
Cruciferi said:
Here’s an even BIGGER QUESTION: How would the Catholic Church view them Marrying?
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The incidence of complete AIS is one in 99,000 individuals, and in the majority of cases the Androgen Receptor allele does not arise due to a de novo mutation, rather it’s inherited from the mother. I guarantee you the Church has already (unwittingly) married two XY individuals.
 
Hmmm. Technically, then, by combining the conclusions of the last 2 posts, the Church has performed same sex marriage. Interesting.
 
Only if you insist on defining biological sex based on a single, narrow, monocausal quality in the nuclei of a person’s cells that cannot even be seen, such as their chromosomes.
 
Aside form the fact that this is seems to be none of our business, how many million of these procedures are needed each month?

Secondly, what does the DNA say?

Sorry Johnny, but if the genitalia don’t fit, you must quit.
 
Does anyone know what the prevalence of this is in the world? What percentage of babies are born like this?
 
And you could also say that they have a vagina and breasts. Two things that were more readily apparent than an internal uterus and internal testes to pretty much everyone throughout the history of the Church (and of our species for that matter). This is exactly my point. Why are you arbitrarily seizing on particular characteristics of a person’s sex do define it?
 
It’s the truth that A Y-chromosome, or the SRY gene, or AR gene, or androgens in the blood, or immature internal testes makes a person a man? Which is it?
 
Serious question: what criteria does the Church use to define gender?
 
jtavington said:
Serious question: what criteria does the Church use to define gender?
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I would say that that is a question for science, not for theology. (Of course, that doesn’t automatically mean that any scientist who weighs in on the issue is right. Scientists can be wrong, or can be misled by an ideology.)
 
Ah, only you get to decide that is relevant. Got it! I did not advocate any surgery. I talked about “if” surgery was needed or the surgery "can be done… Regardless of surgery or no surgery, a person is either make or female. If a person has both a vagina and a penis, surgery may be needed. That is up to the doctors/parents/person
 
Cruciferi said:
Technically Male…
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Is it official Catholic doctrine that someone is “male” if they have a Y chromosome? Is there anything either in Scripture or tradition about chromosomes defining what sex someone is?
 
Actually I am familiar, but thanks for the sin of rash judgment.
 
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