Tue Sep 12, 2023 – 3:25 pm EDTTue Sep 12, 2023 – 3:26 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Last week, delegates at the Conservative Party’s National Convention voted in favor of a Policy Declaration supporting a ban on “treating” gender dysphoria in children with pharmaceutical and surgical interventions.
Sadly, many children today experience distress about their bodies – about being male or female and about sexually maturing into a man or woman. They may say they feel stuck in the “wrong” body. A technical term for this is “gender dysphoria.” It has risen exponentially in children in the past decade, especially among teen and pre-teen girls. There is plenty of evidence to suggest that this rise is a largely a social phenomenon or “social contagion.”
People who support medical “transition” for minors believe they are supporting kids’ freedom to “be themselves.” But it’s not so simple. A person’s self-conception can change. His or her DNA and biological sex cannot change (though pharmaceutical and surgical interventions can make somebody appear more masculine or feminine). In a fundamental sense, you are your body. You didn’t choose it. You wouldn’t exist without it.
Male and female bodies are good and beautiful, just
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