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Document Details : Title: Trans Does (Not) Matter! Subtitle: Zur Frage der Bedeutsamkeit von Geschlechtsidentität Author(s): GOERTZ, Stephan Journal: Marriage, Families & Spirituality Volume: 31 Issue: 2 Date: 2025 Pages: 187-200 DOI: 10.2143/INT.31.2.3295216 Abstract : The significance of an individual’s gender identity rests on social and ethical developments. In modern society, transgenderism is a phenomenon that is politically relevant and at the same time subject to social and individual relativization. The issue of a person’s trans identity comes to the fore in the context of a politics based in human rights and anti-discrimination efforts. It recedes into the background in social contexts where the category of gender is less significant than individual abilities. Gender diversity strengthens the individuality of trans persons confronted with rigid identity classifications. The thinking of the Catholic magisterium has difficulty recognizing transgender as a human reality because it continues to depend on an anthropology of male-female complementarity. Biblical texts can shed a different light on the question of the relevance of gender identity. This is clearly illustrated in the account of the baptism of the Ethiopian eunuch in Acts 8,26-40. |
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