«Being transgender is a normal condition and is not a disease. Some transgender people (but not all), experiencing an uncomfortable situation, decide to intervene on their body to make it more similar to how they feel with hormonal treatments and/or surgical interventions. The condition whereby a person has a gender identity different from the gender assigned at birth is also defined as gender incongruence”: this is what we read on the website infotrans.it.
This definition struck me, reading the poster which invites the San Marino population to a public meeting on adolescence, which will be attended on President of Arcigay of Rimini and Gabriel CorbelliPresident of AICS Rimini Provincial Committee. To understand who Gabriel Corbelli is, here is what Il Resto del Carlino reports: «Gabriel’s story: “I was a woman, now a man after 7 years of ordeal”. It inspired the Alias memberships.”
In other words: if you want to talk about adolescence, these are the experts who can help you, because they live a «normal condition».
Now I understand why Arengo’s request on the topic of Informed consentfor the issues that concern ethically sensitive issues, was rejected also and above all due to the decision of the Secretariat of State for Education, the one that gave its patronage to the initiative in question.
From here we are faced with a series of questions, of which perhaps the most important concerns the identity of our social reality.
Perhaps we are faced with the “condition whereby a person has a gender identity different from the gender assigned at birth”, where we can change “person” with “society” and “birth” with “our two-thousand-year history”.
This is just one of the many aspects to question ourselves about, to understand if our history is still the expression of our identity or if we must accept its decline, to find a new face for the Ancient Land of Freedom.
We have in fact heard the refrain many times that we are finally in the presence of those «new rights» who consider the killing of an innocent person in the mother’s womb to be a right, while they maintain that there is only a short step between the right to the so-called living will and assisted suicide (between the lines this was stated by some commentators during the CGG discussion on end-of-life). This is the principle of the so-called «Overton window» or, according to others, of the «boiled frog».
Because there are principles which, if not contested in their unreasonableness, no longer stop and gain the right to be practiced and observed, under penalty of being considered “passers-by» or, more simply, «fascists».
As the “transgender” transformation of a society takes placewhich no longer recognizes itself in the inherited body and which wants to affirm other principles of coexistence. And here it will no longer matter if it is a minority. The so-called “civil rights” are by their nature universal, and we must accept this.
What about the family? It can no longer be said that it is a social reality made up of a man and a woman. Any relationship, even between people of the same sex, claims to be such. Umberto Veronesi already stated «The human species is evolving towards a “single model”, the differences between men and women are diminishing (…) and the organs of reproduction are atrophiing.
This, combined with the fact that, between artificial fertilization and cloning, sex is no longer the only way to procreate, will end up completely depriving the sexual act of its reproductive purpose.
Sex will remain, but only as a gesture of affection, so it will no longer be so important if we choose to practice it with a partner of the same sex.”
What will happen to fatherhood and motherhood? We already see the resistance to giving political consistency to Arengo’s request on the declaration of the rented womb as a universal crime.
And, if «Being transgender is a normal condition and is not a disease», then we can indoctrinate, sorryeducate young people and their parents with lessons which, to talk about adolescence, seem to look at the human being defined by his sexual behavior (Ah, finally the years in which the church did pipponi about sex!).
And so on. But let’s ask ourselves, will it be possible «keep» the meaning of life, family, society according to what our history has taught us? Or will we have to move from a stage of a protected and somehow tolerated minority to a condition of illegality, as it was in communist countries and as it is in countries dominated by Islamist fundamentalism?
Real and constructive change is needed brave men and womenstrong and passionate. Who knows if what awaits us will be the time for a recovery!
Don Gabriele Mangiarotti
