There is more to gender than the 23rd chromosomal pair. Lots of things happen in gestation and development. Some of it we are still learning, including what made Caitlyn Jenner the greatest athlete on earth while hating that part of herself the whole time (her words). Compassion is not about sympathy. It is about respect. A Church that lacks that respect for others becomes an object of pity. Luckily the Church has been gifted with a laity willing to speak out about the truth and the hierarchy will bend. It will quickly come to a point where the myth that the Church has never erred will be impossible to maintain. Its protection from the gates of Hell is change, not stubbornness.