The lady in question, whom we shall call M, as she wishes to protect her identity, is tall, of German American origin, an attorney who had worked for a number of high level financial firms. She had been married, raised two sons and is now divorced.
She described herself as an orthodox Anglican believer; she has had both evangelical and charismatic experiences, is a Cursillo graduate, and now considers herself part of the Anglo-Catholic wing of the church.
She said she has been reading VOL for a number of years and did not regard me or my writings as homophobic. She wrote asking to meet with me regarding what she sees as a serious confusion in traditional Anglican circles regarding the differences between homosexuality and transsexuality.
Whatever you think of what M has to say in response to questions we posed to her below, we believe you will find her remarks intelligent and thought-provoking.
Chiefly, M asserts that, in a gender dysphoric individual, the person's biologically determined sex is different than the gender that person perceives himself or herself to be. And although psychological factors are involved in that perception, current science suggests that the causes for gender dysphoria are likely significantly physiological - i.e., that gender dysphoria is like a "birth defect," which is "a medical condition," M said.
Still - and this is important - she is not using that as any sort of excuse. M, who cares for her aging mother, says she is living a celibate life, believing that, being single, that is the path she is called to follow in obedience to Holy Scripture.
Read it all here.
Thinking about ethics and current events (Began 1 April 2008)
what a mess. "M" first ought to prove that his or her own history is really as claimed and not just a lie. And if it is, it's a clever attempt to pose just one more case of sin as a medical issue, blaming it on God as a mistake in creation. M is no different from any homo who holds onto vice and tries to blame it on God. The only difference is the clever masking of it in novel and high-sounding medical-scientific terms, coupled with a sophistic attempt to say sex or gender cannot be defined.
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David Virtue is trying to sort out the "mess", as are many of us. I don't think that means we are going to the dark side. This woman may represent the rare phenomena (about 1% of the human population worldwide) who are born with gender anomalies. This is not a case of choice, or of corruption through predation, or of pornographic perversion.
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