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Transgenderism

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Wesley J. Smith
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January 16, 2023
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The Transgender Tide Is Turning

Wesley J. Smith
January 16, 2023
The time has come for an intense but mutually respectful societal conversation that focuses not only on the causes of transgenderism and the potential benefits of transitioning such people, but also the many risks and alternatives that can care compassionately for suffering people while maintaining cultural equilibrium. Our future thriving requires nothing less. Read More ›
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Asian doctor and an assistant in the operating room for surgical venous vascular surgery clinic in hospital.
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Wesley J. Smith
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January 12, 2023
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Maryland Catholic Hospital Liable for Refusing Transgender Hysterectomy

Wesley J. Smith
January 12, 2023
Two principles of Catholic health-care ethics forbid removing healthy organs and sterilizing a patient absent a necessity caused by a pathology, such as cancer. These principles are increasingly in conflict with the transgender movement that has the ACLU and others suing when Catholic hospitals refuse transgender surgeries based on these religiously based precepts. Read More ›
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Young pea (Pisum) sprouts in a sunny vegetable garden
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Wesley J. Smith
Date
December 20, 2022
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The Fear of Suffering is Driving Us Crazy

Wesley J. Smith
December 20, 2022
But eliminating suffering is impossible. Not only is the goal Utopian, but it leads to ever-more-extreme distortions of decency and a collapse of public policy rationality—which ironically, can cause the very “evil” that suffering abolitionists yearn so desperately to prevent. Read More ›
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transgender flag in the palm of the hand.
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Wesley J. Smith
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November 2, 2022
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‘Nullectomy’: Physician-Assisted Mutilation

Wesley J. Smith
November 2, 2022
I don’t know how much more of this our culture can take. “Gender-affirming” surgeries are growing increasingly extreme. A source sent me links to websites operated by doctors who perform “bottom surgeries” advertising “genital nullification” — a.k.a. “nullectomy” — procedures that remove genitalia in order to create a “smooth” appearance in the groin. Read More ›
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A transgender flag being waved at LGBT gay pride march
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Wesley J. Smith
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November 1, 2022
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Bioethicist Proposes ‘Right’ to Gender-Affirming Care

Wesley J. Smith
November 1, 2022
It is important to keep an eye on mainstream bioethics journals, because seemingly ludicrous ideas that begin in the ivory tower often become public policy. Read More ›
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Christian friends group reading and study bible together in home or Sunday school at church with window light
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Wesley J. Smith
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October 28, 2022
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Conscience
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Religious Freedom: Biden Policy Not Where Administration’s Mouth Is

Wesley J. Smith
October 28, 2022
Until President Biden protects the right to act in the public square here at home consistently with one’s religious beliefs, his administration’s support for International Religious Freedom Day has to be judged so much hot air. Read More ›
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A transgender flag being waved at LGBT gay pride march
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Wesley J. Smith
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October 18, 2022
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Hundreds of Teen ‘Gender-Affirming’ Mastectomies Each Year

Wesley J. Smith
October 18, 2022
I believe this moral panic will end when trial lawyers catch the scent of money and malpractice cases flood the courts — as has started in the U.K. That time cannot arrive soon enough. Read More ›
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Homemade sign at environmental rally. A colorful cardboard placard is viewed close up, saying the climate is changing, why aren't we, in the hands of ecological activists as they protest in the city
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Wesley J. Smith
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August 31, 2022
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Progressivism Colonizes the Science Journals

Wesley J. Smith
August 31, 2022
The scientific establishment moans that it is no longer trusted. True. But there is good cause. The leadership of the hard-science sector has grown increasingly ideological — undermining the science’s overall credibility. Read More ›
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A transgender flag being waved at LGBT gay pride march
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Wesley J. Smith
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August 12, 2022
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Transgenderism
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Episcopal Church Endorses ‘Gender-Affirming’ Mutilations of Children

Wesley J. Smith
August 12, 2022

The Episcopal Church has endorsed “gender-affirming care” at all ages, including mastectomies and “bottom” surgeries that sterilize and cause sexual dysfunction. From the Episcopal House of Deputies Resolution: Resolved, that the 80th General Convention calls for the Episcopal Church to advocate for access to gender affirming care in all forms (social, medical, or any other) and at all ages as part of our Baptismal call to “respect the dignity of every human being”; and be it further Resolved, that the 80th General Convention affirms that all Episcopalians should be able to partake in gender affirming care with no restriction on movement, autonomy, or timing; and be it further Resolved, that the 80th General Convention understands that the protection of religious liberty extends to all Episcopalians Read More ›

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