The violence of Dignitas Infinita—to women, to trans and intersex people, to prospective parents, and others—is as disturbing as it is ultimately unsurprising. (To take just one example, the document goes out of its way to make it clear that the Church’s opposition to gender affirming medical intervention should not be taken as opposition to the nonconsensual mutilation of intersex children in order to make their bodies fit its reductive, impoverished idea of what constitutes acceptable bodies.)

To label the Church’s stance as one rooted in "dignity" is to make a mockery of the word.