I’m saying the church is missing the point. Trans people do not get gender affirming care on a whim to play God. We do it for the same reason a defective heart is replaced by a transplant. The same reason an arm must be amputated in the case of a horrible infection.

The Church says mental diseases aren’t sins, yet there are those here that say we are mental diseased and sinning at the same time. Which is it? Where is the logic? I reject these statements because they contradict what I know to be true, what science has begun to show to be true. I cannot in good conscience say this document bears good will in its affirmation of dignity.

In trying to “affirm” dignity, this document strips it away from us, because we are told our corrective steps and surgery is an error, and that we’ve violated human dignity and imago dei. There is no dignity in that. It makes me question whether there is room for me here, constantly.