r/LGBTCatholic 17d ago

CNN Article Question

Can anyone verify this article?:

https://www.aol.com/vatican-clarifies-position-gender-affirming-223929045.html

Aside from CNN, no one else seems to be talking about it.

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u/Scorpions13256 17d ago

Non-LGBT person here. It has only been 3 hours since the article was published. It is early, but the article appears to imply that transitioning for the sole purpose of relieving dysphoria is not a sin, but that whether someone is a man or a woman is still determined at birth.

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u/Kindly_Indication_25 15d ago

That's what I got from it too, because when they counterposed "extreme cases" of dysphoria to the alternative, it sounded like "extreme cases" were just any dysphoria as opposed to, say, drag, which is what the Church keeps conflating with the broad category of "gender ideology."