The Vatican appears to have modified its position against gender-affirming surgery and \u201cgender theory\u201d last year, raising the possibility of \u201cexceptional situations.\u201d <\/p>\n
This week the Vatican published a speech by doctrine chief Cardinal Victor Manuel Fern\u00e1ndez where he said, \u201cthere are cases outside the norm, such as strong dysphorias that can lead to an unbearable existence or even suicide. These exceptional situations must be evaluated with great care.\u201d <\/p>\n
The Argentinian prelate, speaking to a theology conference in Cologne, Germany, explained: \u201cWe don\u2019t want to be cruel and say that we don\u2019t understand people\u2019s conditioning and the deep suffering that exists in some cases of \u2018dysphoria\u2019 that manifests itself even from childhood.\u201d <\/p>\n
In April last year, the Vatican issued a strong warning against \u201cgender theory\u201d and said that any \u201csex-change intervention\u201d risks threatening \u201cthe unique dignity\u201d of a person. <\/p>\n
The document, signed by Pope Francis, focused on what it describes as a range of threats to human dignity, including poverty, the death penalty, war, assisted dying, abortion, sexual abuse, and the abuse of women. <\/p>\n
Last year\u2019s text stated that attempts to obscure \u201cthe sexual difference between man and woman,\u201d including gender-affirming surgery, should be rejected. \u201cIt follows that any sex-change intervention, as a rule, risks threatening the unique dignity the person has received from the moment of conception,\u201d it added at the time. <\/p>\n
While this week\u2019s publication on the Vatican site acknowledges the possibility of gender dysphoria, it still makes clear that the church opposes the idea \u201cthat bodily-sexual identity can be the object of radical change, always subject to one\u2019s own desires\u2026\u201d <\/p>\n
Pope Francis has in the past welcomed a community of transgender women to his weekly general audiences while he signed off on a Vatican document permitting trans people to be godparents. <\/p>\n
This comes as the ailing 88-year-old pope battles double pneumonia at Rome\u2019s Gemelli hospital where he has been since mid-February, often working during the day. <\/p>\n
From the hospital, the pontiff has still been making decisions such as calling a meeting of pope and cardinals to decide sainthood causes at an unspecified date. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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