An Authentic Role Model of "Pride": St Charles Lwanga
In June 2023, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops promised to update its Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services with its own Doctrinal Note on the Moral Limits to Technological Manipulation of the Human Body. That has yet to happen.
As per the Catholic Medical Association,
The present "treatment" of GD [gender dysphoria] is contrary to the nature of medicine. It denies the very essence of the human person who is an integrated entity of body and soul. Such a denial is perpetuated by language that negates this reality by the erroneous use of pronouns, and the fostering of dress and behaviors that are intended to affirm this denial. New developments in addressing gender dysphoria in children are concerning in terms of violating fundamental parental rights and upending long standing jurisprudence. Policies to undermine the rights and obligations of parents or guardians, particularly in the public-school systems, in no way are to be endorsed. Children lack the full decisional capacity for such serious issues and are dependent upon engaged parents/guardians to consent or refuse potentially life-altering psychological, medical, or surgical actions. (The Ideology of Gender Harms Children, Catholic Medical Association, 9/8/2023)