Trans people are in the crosshairs of the Catholic Church, whose weapon in the culture wars is “natural law” moral philosophy.
,” Francis writes that “an appreciation of our body as male or female is also necessary for our own self-awareness in an encounter with others different from ourselves.”
One of the people who has most firmly leveled his sights on the transgender community is Ryan T. Anderson, a natural law political philosopher who trained under Robert P. George at Princeton University and Patrick Deneen at the University of Notre Dame. Anderson is the president of the very right-wing Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington.
There was enormous hullabaloo when Amazon pulled Anderson’s 2018 book, “When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment,” from its online store — it’s still not available for purchase there. Anderson leveraged this instance of censorship to further elevate his reputation on the right. The book applies Anderson’s natural law philosophy — his skepticism of gender identity fluidity and his concerns about rapid cultural change regarding gender norms — to build an argument against the transgender movement’s goals. The premise of the book is that sex is immutable, binary and determined by observable biological factors, not subjective identity., gender identity that diverges from biological sex is a psychological disorder, not an innate identity.
For these reasons, Anderson concludes transgender identities should not be legally protected classes. According to Anderson, nondiscrimination policies on gender identity are misguided; parental consent and involvement should always be required for any identity questioning or medical steps in minors; and public culture and policies should avoid any affirmation of transgender identities.The conservative hysteria surrounding transgender identity is almost entirely manufactured.
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