Ah, but the Vatican's new 2024 Declaration makes it abundantly clear that the Vatican's Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith believes in the sheer radicalness of the moment of conception doctrine as bestowing gender and sexuality. Once you embrace the sheer radicalness of the moment of conception as the moment of dignity, then you will most likely see views that challenge this doctrine as involving "a kind of illusion" (in the words of The Editors of Commonweal).
In other words, the authors of the Vatican's new 2024 Declaration are saying, in effect, that the Church's doctrine about the moment of conception is supposed to serve faithful Catholics in forming their conceptions properly in accord with the Church's teachings - and thereby correcting their own personal mistaken beliefs, which the authors of the Vatican Declaration do indeed see as "a kind of illusion" (in the words of The Editors of Commonweal).
In my first OEN article "Why Obama Should Shun the Pope's Views on Abortion" (dated October 10, 2009), I have explained why I do not accept the Church's teaching about the moment of conception:
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