How do Catholics reconcile the doctrine of transubstantiation with their rejection of transgenderism? This is from catholic.com "The Church has a different take, one that is grounded in genuinely confirmed reality. One is born either or male or female, and this also applies to hermaphrodites who, though they manifest both male and female anatomical aspects at birth, are either biological boys or girls."
If the church's take is that of what is visually obvious reality, then how do they square that with the Eucharist, which is when the bread and wine become the actual body of Jesus but are still outwardly bread and wine. I suppose, to answer my own question, the difference is that the Eucharist changes the bread and wine, whereas the transperson isn't divinely changed but declares themselves to be one gender or another. It's not like the bread and wine identify as Christ, since it is inanimate food.