[irdc]

However, don't you feel as though biology thereby becomes an impediment to loving the whole person?

Edit: I'm sorry, I'm being a little vague here, so let me clarify: biology is what decides our appearance, and our appearance then influences how we interact with people. If ones appearance contradicts ones inner sense of personhood, how can that person ever truly connect with other people? And if they cannot connect, then how can they love and be loved (which if I remember correctly is one of the two major commandments in your religion)?

[svieira]

> If ones appearance contradicts ones inner sense of personhood, how can that person ever truly connect with other people?

https://woforgmedia.wordonfire.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/0...

https://www.wordonfire.org/articles/pope-francis-and-the-ele...

[irdc]

And yet, if someone with such an affliction could have it fixed via medicine, they would jump at the chance. As would you, by the way. Requiring people not to because of one’s convictions is certainly the height of something and it isn’t good.

[svieira]

"The affliction" in his case is skin overgrowth, in the other its the dysphoria, right? But which is the moral way to cure either?