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Save Women’s Sport II

James Esses, a trainee therapist expelled from a university course over email launching a public petition to safeguard therapy and counseling for vulnerable children with gender dysphoria, has written a good column about the unfairness of biological men competing against biological women.

A recent ITV interview of British cyclist, Emily Bridges, a biological male competing against women, provided his motivation to write.

First, here’s the interview.

Next a few graphs from James Esses’ column.

In one of the most trailed segments of the interview, Bridges spoke of receiving abuse and threats online. This is abhorrent and unacceptable. Equally, we should be mindful of the distress that comes from gender dysphoria – a debilitating mental-health condition. However, this does not mean we should capitulate to the falsehoods of the trans movement or to its overblown rhetoric. 

Where will this misguided obsession with ‘inclusivity’ end? Will we soon find ourselves in a situation in which sports competitors can self-identify their age and adults are competing against children? Or will we face something even more bleak? There could be the potential for serious injury if biological males are entitled to take part in contact sports, such as rugby, against biological women.

Full Column Here.

Finally, a few reality shots.

In 3rd place the fastest female cyclist at Thundercrit’s Herne Hill event, proud mum Jo Smith.
Biological Males, Bridges & Chant takes 1st & 2nd place.
Emily Bridges competes on MEN’S team in Feb 2022
They win bronze medal
Guess who is not the female in this USA women’s college rowing contest.

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Love Refuses to Affirm Confusion

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‘Woman’ Dirty Word, ‘Man’ Just Fine

So says columnist Jenni Murray in her latest column at the Daily Mail. I blogged about the erasure of ‘woman’ and ‘women’ in the latest National Health Service (NHS) guidance for ovarian, womb and cervical cancer.

You can read about that here. Along with screen shots of the “before” and “after” website guidance.

The Disappearance of Woman & Women

Columnist Murray is exasperated, just like most of us.

Why is NHS hell-bent on erasing all mention of women?
‘People’ it appears, need to be warned of symptoms and risks of these potentially deadly conditions. ‘Anyone with ovaries can get ovarian cancer,’ says the NHS overview of the disease. ‘But it mostly affects those over 50.’ No mention of women, see.

Surprise, surprise it’s an entirely different picture if you click onto the cancers that affect only men. Take prostate cancer for example. Good grief, that part of the NHS site is positively raining men! ‘Most cases develop in men aged 50 or older,’ it says. ‘For reasons not yet understood, prostate cancer is more common in black men and less common in Asian men.’

Only ‘woman’, it seems, is ­perceived as a dirty word; ‘man’ is just fine.

Full Column Here.

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I’m a Classic Christian and regard Gender Ideology as anti-creational to the core. This blog is about “God’s Good Creation.” That’s why I’m writing about Gender Ideology. And “speaking up” as I’m confident Jesus would.

"Have you not read that the one who made them at the beginning 'made them male and female.'" [Matt 19:4]

If you would like more detail on how my Christian worldview informs my understanding of Sex and today’s Gender Ideology please read the following posts.

Love refuses to affirm confusion.

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Dr. Michelle Forcier, Expert

This is a follow up to my “Experts” post.

Dr. Michelle Forcier, associate professor of pediatrics at Brown University and staunch advocate of puberty blockers for kids with gender-dysphoria, sits down with NBC News and explains her viewpoint.

You’ll remember Dr. Forcier in the “unaware” outtake below.

Here she is in an NBC News Interview explaining the journey for kids who are transitioning.

Notable Quotables.

(MF)  Think about pregnant women who walk into a room.  One of the first questions people ask:  Is it a boy or a girl?  Even before we come out and enter the world, we've been 'genderized.'   The big place for gender is our brain, our heart, and our soul.  Identity.  Who we are.  Which isn't parts.  It's in here (she gestures to her head).

(I). What's the risk of waiting?  

(MF). Parents ask me that all the time.  And the risk of waiting is suicide.  The risk of waiting is running away.  The risk of waiting is substance abuse.  The risk of waiting is bullying and violence.  The risk of waiting is oppression and anxiety.  Kids have to live their whole childhood denying who they are as a boy or girl.  Kids have to go through the wrong physical and emotional and social puberty.  Breast development.  Getting hairy and big.  Getting hips and butt and thighs.  That's very distressing if you are growing in the wrong gender body for your brain.

Maybe the secret is to fix the brain. Not the body.

As a Christian who believes in the doctrine of Creation, Incarnation, Bodily Resurrection, Bodily Ascension, and future bodily resurrection for believers, I could never agree with this “expert.”

I can love confused people without affirming their confusion.

For more information on Dr. Forcier’s claims please read the following posts. There are plenty of non-religious reasons to say, NO, as well.

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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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Love Refuses to Affirm Confusion