Gender Theory
This is kind if a response to something that came up in the Vocation Station, with multiple individuals expressing how they believe that transgender people should be "affirmed" and "supported" in their personhood by Catholics in a spirit of "Christian charity", that medically transitioning to the opposite sex is essentially "good" for their wellbeing and helps prevent suicide (which is just statistically not true but that's beside the point), they know trans people who have transitioned and are
I haven't read right through this thread. Apologies.
If truth is going to hurt a person, no matter how charitable, should I still convey the truth? How would I like to be treated, perhaps need to be treated, were I to identify as the opposite gender? Truth can be hurtful because the person is not ready for it, or because there is something in their history/where they are coming from, where any sort of rejection can devastate. And we cannot fool ourselves, telling the truth with char