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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/142380| Title: | Natural law as guide for gender affirming care for transgender adolescents? A critique |
| Other Titles: | Mapping a moral consensus : calibrating an ethical compass for the future - Festschrift in honour of Mgr Professor Emmanuel Agius on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, volume II |
| Authors: | Haker, Hille |
| Keywords: | Transgender youth Gender transition -- Hormone therapy -- Moral and ethical aspects Gender identity -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church Catholic Church -- Doctrines Natural law -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church Bioethics -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church |
| Issue Date: | 2025 |
| Publisher: | Kite Group |
| Citation: | Haker, H. (2025). Natural law as guide for gender affirming care for transgender adolescents? A critique. In R. Zammit, & S. M. Attard (Eds.), Mapping a moral consensus : calibrating an ethical compass for the future - Festschrift in honour of Mgr Professor Emmanuel Agius on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, vol. II (pp. 137-155). Malta : Kite Group. |
| Abstract: | In 2019, the Congregation for Catholic Education published a statement that once again addressed the highly contested “gender issue.” In the text, different manifestations of sexual and gender identity are confused or mixed with each other, which many commentators criticized when they appeared. The plight of many people who see themselves as LGBTQI* is unceremoniously reduced to “a confused concept of freedom in the realm of feelings and wants”, or to “the momentary desires provoked by emotional impulses” and “the will of the individual”, contrasted with the “truth of existence. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/142380 |
| ISBN: | 9789918231997 |
| Appears in Collections: | Volume II |
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