Sex Reassignment Surgery and the Catholic Moral Tradition: Insight from Pope Pius XII on the Principle Totality
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A common argument among Catholic theologians and ethicists against sex reassignment surgery (SRS) is that it either violates the principle of totality or constitutes a direct sterilization. These procedures generally fall into one of three categories: breast (augmentation mammoplasty, subcutaneous mastectomy), genital (vaginectomy, hysterectomy, scrotoplasty, phalloplasty, penectomy, castration, vaginoplasty, etc.), and nongenital/nonbreast (liposuction, lipofilling, lowering or raising the voice pitch, chondroplasty, hair reconstruction, etc.).1 Some of these procedures are also done outside the context of SRS for cosmetic reasons and others for therapeutic purposes.2 These can certainly considered morally licit in that context.
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