It is pathetic, but the confusion will continue as long as patriarchal gender theory (i.e., the sex/gender binary, male headship, complementarian stereotypes) is conflated with revealed truth about the unity and complementarity of man and woman.  I think that this issue is effectively clarified in St. John Paul II's Theology of the Body, which explains that man and woman, and therefore all humans, are fully homogeneous in their "whole being" (TOB 8:4), so I cannot understand why the Vatican keeps insisting in categorizations based on an ancient human culture rather than revealed truth.  All ministries should be gift-based, not gender-based.  All ministerial vocations should be tested/authenticated regardless of gender or any other factor that is not an impediment to serve.  If the Virgin Mary brought us the Incarnate Word in her own body, as flesh of her flesh, why is the redeemed body of a baptized woman,
of the same flesh, not "proper matter" for priestly ordination?