Month: May 2022

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Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality

I mentioned author Helen Joyce in my last post. She has written a very fine book on the topic. A “Book of the Year” according to The Spectator. It’s one of the several that I’ve read on this subject. She has a PhD in Mathematics. She is the finance editor at The Economist. And now she has turned her attention to the most important issue of the day.

She is not a Christian, but she defends the reality of sexed bodies, male and female.

She’s very sharp. As you will see. She is also relentlessly reasonable.

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As a Classic Christian I encourage everyone to “Embrace, Don’t Affirm.”

Individuals with a Gender Identity Disorder (Gender-Dysphoria) need Truth-filled Love. Please read this post for more details.

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Covid-19 Lockdowns and Gender Swapping

A leading clinical psychologist with 16 years’ experience in child mental health say more than half of her patients now identify as transgender.

She saw a sudden rise after the coronavirus lockdowns. And parents are letting their kids transition at ages five or six. But parents had been “sold a lie.” 

'When we disconnect them from their biological sex we set up patterns of denial and secrets. We set them up to hate their bodies at puberty, to beg for [puberty] blockers and binders, because for years we told them they could change sex and they believed us – but their body knows otherwise.
'They become desperate to go back to the years when no one knew any different, but that time will never come again. Time is not reversible. What we grow up being told in our childhood matters for our whole lives.'

She reports this anonymously because she said:

“she feared being accused of ‘transphobia’ or even conversion therapy if she questioned or explored the child’s decision to swap gender.”

Sixty out of 1,000 students at a secondary school declared their gender to be different than their birth sex.

According to the DailyMail:

The majority have done so since most Covid-19 lockdown restrictions were lifted last summer, raising concern about the impact of online trans ‘influencers’ on youngsters who were largely confined to their homes for months.

“Transformers Lockdown Animated Deluxe – caja” by mdverde is marked with CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

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Kids Taught ‘Sliding Scale’ Between Male & Female

In England 800 schools have been sent copies of a children’s book, for children ages 8-11, entitled, What Does LGBT+ Mean?

In the book they are taught that a person’s sex is “assigned” to them by a doctor at birth and that gender can be a “sliding scale“.

The Times reports the book is….

Written by mother-and-son diversity campaigners, it features a picture of a doctor holding a clipboard and pen by a row of babies under the “assigned sex” chapter. The book adds that “gender is different from assigned sex” and is who they “feel” they are, with examples given as “male, female, both or neither”.

Author Helen Joyce, from the advocacy group Sex Matters told The Times:

Nobody is assigned a sex. I’ve given birth twice and both times I knew what sex the baby was at 20 weeks. It’s just absurd. How did we get to a place where teachers feel they can sit and say to primary children, ‘Some people feel male, some feel female, some feel both and some feel neither’?

(See my rebuttal of the “assigned” fiction here.)

If you wonder why states like Florida have written new laws about these matters, this is why.

According to The Times:

There are also two pages dedicated to an explanation of sexual orientation, with labels of heterosexual, gay, lesbian, bisexual, pansexual and asexual.

The book…

includes a section on “gender as a spectrum”, saying: “Some people find it useful to think of gender as a sliding scale between male and female.” The scale is shown with labels in between male and female, including mostly female, partly female, both or neither, partly male and mostly male.

The full story in The Times.

The importance of the teacher
“The importance of the teacher” by gibsonsgolfer is marked with CC BY-NC 2.0.

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