Properly understood, a person cannot change his or her sexual identity. For persons not suffering the disorders mentioned above (e.g., hermaphroditism [congenital adrenal hyperplasia (a species of which is anrdogen insensitivity syndrome), mosaicism, chimerism, or some other congenital cause of mixed sexual identity[) a person is either male or female. A person is the unity of soul and body, and ‘soul’ should be understood not as an immaterial self, but as that which makes the body be what it is, namely, a human person. We are either male or female persons, and nothing can change that. A person can mutilate his or her genitals, but cannot change his or her sex. Changing one’s sex is fundamentally impossible; these procedures are fundamentally acts of mutilation…Such operations should not be thought of as changing a person’s sex, but rather confirming what is originally ambiguous.
May not someone think that he (or she) really believes that he (or she) is a woman (or man)?
The moral judgment that genital-changing operations are immoral does not entail that people cannot have false beliefs, or that their feelings and attitudes cannot be irrational or not in conformity with reality. A person’s sex identity is not determined by one’s subjective beliefs, desires or feelings. It is a function of his or her nature.
What is the Difference between Sex and Gender?
Sexual identity is not a social construction but is an objective fact rooted in our nature as either female or male persons. The most obvious fact about us is that we are either male or female.
Of course there is an important distinction to make in this regard between sexual identity and gender. Sexual identity refers to the property of being male or female. It refers to the specific sex of the human person. Being male (or female) is an essential property of who we are as persons. For example, a man simply cannot as a male, bear or gestate children. Men do not have such a potency, but women do. Thus, being male (or female) is essential to what we are. Gender, on the other hand, refers to certain emotional dispositions or traits characteristic of femininity or masculinity. ‘Femininity’ and ‘masculinity’ are gender terms and refer to specific traits or dispositions.
So, this does admit that some people have a “mixed sexual identity” and are not either male or female.For persons not suffering the disorders mentioned above (e.g., hermaphroditism [congenital adrenal hyperplasia (a species of which is anrdogen insensitivity syndrome), mosaicism, chimerism, or some other congenital cause of mixed sexual identity[) a person is either male or female.
You mentioned transgenderism, which had nothing to do with the statement of mine you quoted. I’m only concerned with intersex here.Ah, only you get to decide that is relevant.
That’s the point though. How do YOU decide what sex a baby is who is born with male and female sex organs?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
I’d wait as long as possible and conduct as much testing as possible. There’s no reason to rush.That’s the point though. How do YOU decide what sex a baby is who is born with male and female sex organs?
Then it is odd that you would make such an uniformed comment.Actually I am familiar
It is also odd that you would “thank” anyone for sinning.but thanks for the sin of rash judgment.
Brolnatius says sex has to be determined in time for the baptism certificate.I’d wait as long as possible and conduct as much testing as possible. There’s no reason to rush.
Except when it doesn’t, as the very case of AIS demonstrates. Simply having a Y chromosome doesn’t make you male anymore than producing testosterone does, or having a functional SRY gene does or having functional androgen receptors does. Phenotypic sex arises from very complex and concerted actions of all these players among many others.“Y is the sex-determining chromosome in many species, since it is the presence or absence of Y that determines the male or female sex of offspring produced in sexual reproduction. In mammals, the Y chromosome contains the gene SRY, which triggers testis development.”
It starts with Y and proceeds from there.
I did not say that. When did we become at odds?Brolnatius says sex has to be determined in time for the baptism certificate.
You don’t seem to understand the point. Some people have a hard time with fundamental connections and can only deal with the more obvious ones. Ah well.You mentioned transgenderism, which had nothing to do with the statement of mine you quoted. I’m only concerned with intersex here.
You are misreading the quotations in their full context (rather conveniently it would seem). Just two sentences down the writer says, “We are either male or female persons, and nothing can change that.” Everyone is either male or female, but a rare few are sexually ambivalent. That does not mean they have no sex. Only two sexes exist – male and female.For persons not suffering the disorders mentioned above (e.g., hermaphroditism [congenital adrenal hyperplasia (a species of which is anrdogen insensitivity syndrome), mosaicism, chimerism, or some other congenital cause of mixed sexual identity[) a person is either male or female.
LOL. No, “ambivalent” does not mean they have not sex, it just means that they don’t fit conveniently into either of the categories.Everyone is either male or female, but a rare few are sexually ambivalent. That does not mean they have no sex.
“Unquestioning conviction about another person’s bad conduct”Your definition if rash judgement is not the Church’s definition.
Honest question - as all I’ve ever heard is if you’re XO, you’re phenotypically female (Turner’s). I know you are assuredly the expert in all this, so can you explain how that happens?there are men with no Y chromosome.