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Thanks to Sean Alderman<\/a> for the link to this 2004 article at First Things about the clinical case against gender-reassignment<\/a>. \u00a0In it, Paul McHugh of John Hopkins outlines his experience both with adult patients asking for male-to-female sex-change surgery, and with the long-term outcomes of infant boys with ambiguous genitalia who are surgically castrated, given female-like outward genitalia, and raised as girls. \u00a0The paper is long but eminently readable, and I encourage you to read the whole thing, because he outlines several different situations and the clinical evidence for appropriate treatment.<\/p>\n

(You might have more interest in some disorders than others.\u00a0If one section doesn\u2019t interest you, skip along to the one that does.)<\/p>\n

I\u2019m of course no clinician, but the results on all counts certainly resonate with what I have seen and heard in day-to-day life. \u00a0 I say that with a recognition of the overwhelming difficulty that certain of the conditions outlined create for the individual. \u00a0There\u2019s no, \u201cIf you would just _____!\u201d pat solution that would make all things better in a few easy steps.<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

And on that note, let me observe now: This side of the grave, there\u2019s no such thing as being \u201ctoo far gone\u201d from God\u2019s love<\/strong>. \u00a0It is easy to fall into thinking that if, say, a man undergoes sex-change surgery, he\u2019s passed some boundary from which there is no return. \u00a0One might imagine that, having made an irreversible change to his body, he has likewise made an irreversible change to his soul. \u00a0Cut himself out of the Catholic faith forever. \u00a0This is false.<\/p>\n

There are many things we can do that build barriers to our relationship with God. \u00a0Some of those barriers are great indeed. \u00a0But they are not too great for the grace of God. \u00a0The same God who holds the universe together by His will alone is capable of putting your soul, and your life, back together if only you will let Him.<\/p>\n

God wants you to be healthy, whole, and sane. But He does not need you to be any of those.<\/p>\n

When you are ready, God is ready. \u00a0If you\u2019re willing to abandon yourself to His love \u2014 no matter how scary and unknown and crazy that love sounds \u2014 He\u2019s got a place for you in the Catholic Church as His beloved child.<\/p>\n

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