Abigail Favale is Dean of Humanities at George Fox University, where she also teaches seminars in the great books. Her 2018 memoir Into the Deep: An Unlikely Catholic Conversion traces her conversion from postmodern feminism to Catholicism. She has also written a book entitled The Genesis of Gender, which will be published with Ignatius Press in early 2022.
Gender dysphoria needs to be acknowledged and treated as a psychological illness. I understand the resistance to language of disorder and pathology, motivated by a fear that such language is stigmatizing. I understand, but I disagree. To reclassify disorder as order forecloses the possibility of recovery. I think of my own battles with anxiety, depression, self-harm. I don't want someone telling me those things are normal and good. I want to be healed.
Date posted: 2022-09-03
We are witnessing a kind of last battle, a feminist Armageddon that will determine whether feminism, as a movement centered upon the wellbeing of women and girls, will endure into the future or self-immolate. Only a return to realism can provide a stable definition of woman, the requisite ground for effective feminism.
Date posted: 2021-08-01