Is the Soul Sexed? Anthropology, Transgenderism, and Disorders of Sex Development
The recent articles by Bayley, Gremmels, and FitzGerald touch on a timely issue.1 While such articles focused on narrow methodological issues, we intend to examine relevant questions about anthropology. To develop this insight, we build upon traditional and recent magisterial teaching, as it is informed by Thomistic philosophy, and juxtapose the conditions known as transgenderism with disorders of sex development. To conclude, we draw some preliminary implications such discussion has for properly distinguishing and specifying the moral object of genital surgeries in each context.