This is some very solid casuistry. Father James Martin, S.J. would be proud. > Of course, most of the Catholic heirarchy and supporters of trans rights disagre

This is some very solid casuistry. Father James Martin, S.J. would be proud. > Of course, most of the Catholic heirarchy and supporters of trans rights disagree on who are men and who are women to start with, but, I mean, the former at least should be familiar with the idea of an entity having the observable physical characteistics of one thing but being something radically different because of its innate essence. I'd love to know where you found the teaching that God miraculously transubstantiates people into a body of the wrong sex. > Catholic teaching is that lying consists of objectively false statements told with intent to deceive. (CCC 2482). My conscience tells me that it's objectively false and if I say it isn't I'm intentionally deceiving. (CCC 1778) > (1) As Catholic traditionalists and trans rights activists agree, “gender identity” is not the same thing that Catholics see as binary sex. Acknowledging that a persons gender identity is this or that is not a fact claim about the construct of sex, but also Motte and bailey. As an aside what Doctor of the Church has anything to say about "gender identity?" Presumably if this is part of tradition one of them must have had something to say on the subject. In fact, where are you finding any Catholic traditionalist who is leaning on 1970s era radical feminist linguistic novelties?[1] > (2) Preferred pronouns are a distinct (though sometimes correlated) issue to gender identity (people with different gender identity can have the same oreferred pronouns, and vice versa), so even if acknowledging the validity of gender identity waa making a claim about sex, and even if such a claim would be false, respecting preferred pronouns isn’t acknowledging gender identity, its just respecting preferred pronouns. More equivocating. Everyone knows the confusion is intentional. > (3) On top of all of the above, the purpose of use of a person's preferred pronouns by a Catholic in a work environment would, presumably, not be convince anyone of some false claim about the subject's sex, and without intent to deceive, it would not be a lie even if its content were an objectively false claim. (Which, for the reasons discussed previously, it is not.) Then why would he care when I use pronouns appropriate to his sex? [1] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=gender+identity&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3&case_insensitive=true https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=gender+identit... https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=gender+roles&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&case_insensitive=on&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=gender+roles&y...