U.S. Catholic bishops on Friday voted to craft their first bioethics directives for Catholic health-care institutions treating transgender people. The Catholic Church oversees about 1 in 7 U.S. hospital beds.
Contemporary interventions to alter the body “for what is termed ‘gender dysphoria’ or ‘gender incongruence,’” the paper says, are “not morally justified … they do not repair a defect in the body; there is no disorder in the body that needs to be addressed.
“The biggest issue is our understanding of human sexuality. Will we into the future continue to see human sexuality as what we call binary, male and female, or are there shades between? What does this mean from a theological perspective is the big question and I don’t know what the answer will be,” said the Rev. Charles Bouchard, the senior director of theology at the Catholic Health Association, which includes most Catholic health entities.
However, it’s common, for example, for Catholic health-care workers to renew subscriptions for hormones and oversee hormone therapy, and to provide emotional support for families sorting through issues around a trans child. “The bishops are jumping on the bandwagon of attacks on trans health care in the political sphere,” she said.The role of the doctrine committee, said USCCB spokesman James Rogers, is to update the ERDs to give practical guidance on trans health care. The doctrinal note — which appears to make clear where the bishops are headed — is more of a theological statement. “Some people are getting ahead of the committee on doctrine.
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