Official Church Documents on Gender Ideology

[Holly3278]

Hey, everyone. I was just wondering if there are any official Church documents on gender ideology and transgenderism?

 

[Joe_5859]

Hey, everyone. I was just wondering if there are any official Church documents on gender ideology and transgenderism?

Nothing on that specifically. There is plenty on what it means to be a man or a woman, though (e.g. JPII’s “Theology of the Body”).

 

[thistle]

catholictrans.wordpress.com/2013/12/07/what-does-the-catholic-church-actually-say-about-transgenderism/

 

[ctb95]

I don’t know of any official Catholic documents that have directly addressed gender ideology.

 

[Holly3278]

Thanks, everyone. I really hope that the Church comes out with an official teaching on gender ideology soon. After all, gender ideology is an increasingly pervasive evil in our society.

 

[M-Dent]

An Address by Pope Benedict XVI to the Roman Curia has some relevant comments. (Search for the term gender in the document)

 

[thistle]

Thanks, everyone. I really hope that the Church comes out with an official teaching on gender ideology soon. After all, gender ideology is an increasingly pervasive evil in our society.

As a person born a male is always a male and a person born a female is always a female no matter what they think, feel, say, how they dress, whether they take drugs or have surgery all Church teachings apply to them as they are born.

 

[Holly3278]

As a person born a male is always a male and a person born a female is always a female no matter what they think, feel, say, how they dress, whether they take drugs or have surgery all Church teachings apply to them as they are born.

Yes, I completely agree. I just think that a specific Church document on the matter would help since the whole gender ideology thing seems to becoming ever more popular all the time.

 

[thistle]

Yes, I completely agree. I just think that a specific Church document on the matter would help since the whole gender ideology thing seems to becoming ever more popular all the time.

There is no need for a specific document. Everyone is covered by existing doctrine.