An Interview: Transgenderism “Is a Blatant Refusal of the Doctrine of Creation”, by Carl E. Olson

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“Transgenderism,” says Michele M. Schumacher, author of Metaphysics and Gender, “is thus just one example—however radical—of the post-modern refusal of human nature as created, and thus as intrinsically ordered to its perfective end.”

By Carl E. Olson, Catholic World Report, June 19, 2023

Carl E. Olson is editor of Catholic World Report and Ignatius Insight. …

Michele M. Schumacher, S.T.D., Habil., is a private docent in the faculty of theology at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. She has written many articles on sexual ethics and on women, and is the author of A Trinitarian Anthropology: Adrienne von Speyr and Hans Urs von Balthasar in Dialogue with St. Thomas Aquinas (Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2014) and God Acting in Man: Founding Human Freedom in Aquinas’s Natural Desire to See God Doctrine (forthcoming). She is also the editor of and a contributor to Women in Christ: Towards a New Feminism (Cambridge, UK / Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2004).

Her new book is Metaphysics and Gender: The Normative Art of Nature and Its Human Imitations, recently published by Emmaus Academic. She recently corresponded with CWR about the book, answering questions about gender, radical feminism, gender ideology, transhumanism, and related topics.

CWR: While most readers will have some sense of the meaning of “metaphysics” and “gender,” the “normative art of nature” might be more obscure. What does the phrase mean? And how, in general, does it relate to metaphysics and gender? …

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