We so often get the retort: They know far more than you do because in the confessional and in counseling they've "heard it all" about love, sex, and marriage.  

Which always reminds me of the frog confidently entering the airplane cockpit for the first time: "This is your captain speaking. Don't worry, passengers. I know all about flying. For years I've heard the birds and the bees tell me all about it."     

In any area,  to discount the expertise of experience is dangerous; to forbid it profession-wide is scary. 

I am not against celibacy. I am against the denial that it has its limits in asserting expertise, wisdom, conditions, empathy, learned knowledge, and visceral understanding.  

If the Church can tell transgendered people, it's wrong to claim that sexually you're someone you are not, then it must be wrong to assert definitive knowledge of love, marriage, sex, and family when you don't have it. It literally is denying who you are. And are not.