Sexual Identity, Gender, and Human Fulfillment: Analyzing the "Middle Way" Between Liberal and Traditionalist Approaches
In this essay, I outline fundamental anthropological and moral principles related to human sexuality and gender identity and then apply these principles to analyze and evaluate the views of several authors who attempt to carve out a "middle way" between liberal and traditionalist approache...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
[2019]
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Christian bioethics
Year: 2019, Volume: 25, Issue: 2, Pages: 192-215 |
| IxTheo Classification: | FD Contextual theology NBE Anthropology NCA Ethics NCF Sexual ethics NCH Medical ethics |
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| Summary: | In this essay, I outline fundamental anthropological and moral principles related to human sexuality and gender identity and then apply these principles to analyze and evaluate the views of several authors who attempt to carve out a "middle way" between liberal and traditionalist approaches to these issues. In doing so, I engage especially with the claim that gender dysphoria, rather than being a psychological issue, is a type of biological intersex condition in which one's "brain sex" is out of line with one's genital and chromosomal sex. I argue that understanding the human person as a unity of body and soul and recognizing human sexuality as ordered toward the human good of marriage understood as inseparably unitive and procreative reveals the flaws in this position and helps to show why hormonal or surgical gender reassignment therapy is not a medically or ethically appropriate response to gender dysphoria. I also offer an alternative characterization of gender dysphoria and suggestions for responding with true compassion to those who suffer from it. |
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| ISSN: | 1744-4195 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Christian bioethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/cb/cbz005 |