A recent Holy See policy document described a person’s birth gender as a “gift from God” that should be respected.
A person’s gender is a “gift from God” and those considering gender reassignment should respect their bodies as they have been created, a Vatican policy document approved by Pope Francis has stated.
The 20-page declaration published on Monday issued staunch criticism of the progressive gender theory dominating Western society, denouncing gender-affirming surgery and modern-day gender ideology as a violation of human dignity and “deeply harmful.”
According to the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican department responsible for outlining the religious discipline of the Catholic Church, the attempts to introduce new rights in relation to gender theory in recent years have “led to instances of ideological colonization,” which the Church regards as “extremely dangerous.”
“Human life in all its dimensions, both physical and spiritual, is a gift from God. This gift is to be accepted with gratitude and placed at the service of the good. Desiring a personal self-determination, as gender theory prescribes, apart from this fundamental truth that human life is a gift, amounts to a concession to the age-old temptation to make oneself God, entering into competition with the true God of love revealed to us in the Gospel,” the document states.