The Vatican slammed the idea of a ‘gender spectrum’ on Monday.
In a statement about the ‘Male and Female He Created Them’ document, which aims to instruct parents and teachers in Catholic education according to the standards, the Vatican clarified it was created to “support those engaged in the education of the younger generations to address ‘methodically,’ in light of the broader horizon of education in love, the issues most debated today on human sexuality.”
The document said that gender identities along a spectrum are “nothing more than a confused concept of freedom in the realm of feelings and wants.”
It added: “Efforts to go beyond the constitutive male-female sexual difference, such as the ideas of ‘intersex’ or ‘transgender,’ lead to a masculinity or femininity that is ambiguous …
“This oscillation between male and female becomes, at the end of the day, only a ‘provocative’ display against so-called ‘traditional frameworks.’ … Gender theory … speaks of a gradual process of denaturalization, that is a move away from nature and towards an absolute option for the decision of the feelings of the human subject …
“In this understanding of things, the view of both sexuality identity and the family become subject to the same ‘liquidity’ and ‘fluidity’ that characterize other aspects of post-modern culture, often founded on nothing more than a confused concept of freedom in the realm of feelings and wants, or momentary desires provoked by emotional impulses and the will of the individual.”
The Congregation for Catholic Education’s leaders, Archbishop Angelo Zani, and Cardinal Giuseppe Versaldi, signed the document.
The statement added: “The Congregation for Catholic Education, which prepared the text, speaks of “an educational crisis,” in particular on the themes of affectivity and sexuality, in the face of “challenges emerging from varying forms of an ideology that is given the general name ‘gender theory,’ which ‘denies the difference and reciprocity in nature of a man and a woman,’” and considers them as “merely the product of historical and cultural conditioning.
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“Identity would then “become the choice of the individual, one which can also change over time.” The text speaks of an anthropological disorientation that characterizes the cultural climate of our time, contributing to “the destabilization of the family.
” Quoting Amoris laetitia, the document says that, among other things, this ideology “leads to educational programs and legislative enactments that promote a personal identity and emotional intimacy radically separated from the biological difference between male and female.
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The document also said that ‘gender theory’ speaks of a process of denaturalization or moving away from nature, and that its view of ‘family’ and ‘sexual identity’ are based on “a confused concept of freedom in the realm of feelings and wants.”
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