By Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.
https://www.breitbart.com/author/thomas-d-williams/
People’s “gender identity” is given to them by God and is directly tied to their biological sex, the Vatican has declared in a major catechetical text published this week.
A fundamental problem with modern gender theory is that it denies a core biblical truth, namely that God creates human beings “male and female,” states the new, 300-page Directory for Catechesis published by the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization.
“Gender identity, according to this position, is no longer an original fact that the person must embrace and fill with meaning, but a social construction that is decided independently, totally detached from biological sex,” the document warns.
A sound anthropology is based on a recognition of the truth of human nature, the text insists, which is not the product of human will but of divine creation.
In modern gender theory, the person “denies his nature and decides that he creates it himself,” the text continues. “According to the biblical account of creation, however, man was created by God as male and female.”
This does not negate real psychological problems of gender dysphoria, the Vatican acknowledges, but these issues should not lead to a denial of human nature.
https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2020/06/27/vatican-rejects-gender-fluidity-in-new-catechetical-text/