Transgender Ideology - God’s Good Creation

March 5, 2022June 23, 2023

First Illness Spread By Social Media? Nope!

The Atlantic Magazine recently posted an article on its website titled: The Twitching Generation.

With the caption:

Around the world, doctors have noticed teenage patients reporting the sudden onset of tics.  Is this the first illness spread by social media?

Uh…no it isn’t.

The social contagion of Transgenderism came before this one.

But you are not likely to have The Atlantic Magazine write a story about that.

For some reason, today, if a new phenomena is associated with sex or gender identity, then it will never be listed as an “illness.” That would be stigmatizing. And unloving. And perhaps illegal in some jurisdictions in the Western world. But why ”hands off” when it comes to exotic sexual or gender identities? Is that rational?

Exotic Identities having to do with sex or gender may only be accepted and affirmed. Or you will be called a bigot.

Why? Because sex, and now gender, are deemed the most identifying human attributes. You can thank Sigmund Freud and his disciples for that.

The only exception to this ”affirming-acceptance” cultural maxim is pedophilia (and perhaps bestiality). And if you think I’m being outrageously inflammatory to mention these ”last taboos” in this context, you need to read my next post! Or this older post about “Transpups.”

Here’s another quote from The Atlantic article about current teenage ”co-morbidities.” (An overlooked issue with regard to Gender-Dysphoria too.)

This fits with existing research showing that many members of Generation Z are anxious, isolated, and depressed, with body-image troubles worsened by the perfect bodies and aspirational lives they see on TikTok and Instagram. They are part of a grand social experiment, the first cohort to grow up with the internet on smartphones, the first generation whose entire lives have been shaped by the demands of social-media algorithms. Tics and twitches may be their unconscious method of saying: I want out.

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This is the world we live in. And our children are hurting. Kudos to The Atlantic for running this story. Now do the same thing with our Gender-Dysphoria epidemic. Connect the dots, I dare ya.

Adults and social media ”influencers” are telling our children lies about who they are and who they can become. Exotic identity expressions which contradict God’s creational design are all the rage today. You could call it THE American Idol, except it has enveloped the Western world as well. Radical autonomy is “the spirit of the age.” You create your own destiny.

Agender	Asexual	Bigender
Binary	Bisexual	Cisgender
Genderfluid	Genderqueer	Non-binary
Pansexual	Polysexual	Third gender
Transgender	Transexual	Trigender
Two-spirit

A few “spirit of the age” gender categories

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Please read the Atlantic article and if I’ve educated you with this blog you will notice the relevant comparisons. For example:

A typical Tourette’s patient is a boy, ages 5-7. Until recently.

A typical Gender-dysphoric patient was almost always a boy, ages 3-5. Until recently.

These days teenagers suffer with problems that typically started much earlier in life. And most of them now are girls. One big difference however. Gender Therapists are fast-tracking Gender-dysphoric teens to Transition into something they are not.

Today we are witnessing an overall “affirming” environment that is “grooming” our girls and boys down the path toward exotic identity expressions. (Please read this post about our schools.) Unfortunately, unlike a tattoo or non-conforming hair and clothing styles, many of these expressions require medical intervention. We are witnessing the medicalization of identity. And our doctors, our therapists, our technologists, our pharmaceutical representatives, who have mostly brought great good to our culture, must be asked some very demanding conflict of interest questions. We need to hold them accountable.

Because our children matter more than their bottom line.

Planned Parenthood’s new Cross-Sex Hormone revenue stream is not purely about “liberation.” In some of our states a 16 year old girl can walk into Planned Parenthood and and receive doses of testosterone 40 times the natural female level. Without a note from a therapist or her mother!

Stop the Madness!

The problem: Social contagion by Social Media.

Here’s just one data point from the Atlantic article:

According to TikTok, videos tagged #tourettes have been viewed more than 5 billion times.
The Twitching Generation

Watch the videos in the posts listed below to get more detail about social contagion via TikToc, YouTube, Instagram, Tumblr and their hordes of “influencers.” Especially, the first one. It deals with the sudden onset of Tourette’s syndrome among girls.

Parents! Concerned Citizens! Christians! Wake up!

The Atlantic article wrote about the fact that historically girls seem to be uniquely susceptible to social contagion. I mentioned this in a previous post. Please read: Our Girls 2 for more details. (Don’t shoot the messenger!)

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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.

March 4, 2022June 22, 2022

Willow – The Affirmation Fallacy

Willow is a DeTransitioner whose ROGD (Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria) started at the age of 16 after she spent a lot of time on the social media site Tumblr and self-diagnosed herself as Transgender.

Here’s an interview of Willow by Erin Brewer from her YouTube channel. Willow grew up in a family where women were disrespected by her father which facilitated internalized misogyny.

Also of interest is her discussion about the hormonal difference between Testosterone and Estrogen. Breaking News! Men and women are wonderfully different.

Around the 32 minute mark she brings up her Gay Porn obsession. Because of her dysfunctional upbringing she began to think male/male relationships were superior relationships. [Please see my post “The Gender Dysphoria – Porn Connection” for additional details about this very real problem.]

“I wish my therapist had challenged me more….” – Willow

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Terms

ROGD = Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria (details below)

Gender Dysphoria – a definition and some history:

“Gender dysphoria—formerly known as “gender identity disorder”—is characterized by a severe and persistent discomfort in one’s biological sex.¹Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edition, text revision (DSM-IV-TR) (Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Association, 2000), 579.

“It typically begins in early childhood—ages two to four—though it may grow more severe in adolescence. But in most cases—nearly 70 percent—childhood gender dysphoria resolves.²Kenneth J. Zucker, “The Myth of Persistence: Response to ‘A Critical Commentary on Follow-Up Studies and ‘Desistance’ Theories about Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Children’ by Temple Newhook et al. (2018),” International Journal of Transgenderism (May 2018); See also J. Ristori and T. D. Steensma, “Gender Dysphoria in Childhood,” International Review of Social Psychiatry 28, no. 1 (2016): 13–20. 

“Historically, it afflicted a tiny sliver of the population (roughly .01 percent) and almost exclusively boys. Before 2012, in fact, there was no scientific literature on girls ages eleven to twenty-one ever having developed gender dysphoria at all. In the last decade that has changed, and dramatically. 

“The Western world has seen a sudden surge of adolescents claiming to have gender dysphoria and self-identifying as “transgender.” For the first time in medical history, natal girls are not only present among those so identifying—they constitute the majority.”

Source: page xxi Introduction - Irreversible Damage - Abigail Shrier

The sudden spike is characterized as ROGD (Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria).

Here are some other disturbing statistics. In 2018, the UK reported a 4,400 percent rise over the previous decade in teenage girls seeking gender treatments (Testosterone & Puberty Blockers). Between 2016 and 2017 the number of gender surgeries for natal females in the U.S. quadrupled. Unlike in the past, now it was biological women suddenly accounting for 70 percent of all gender surgeries.

What is going on? I think I know….

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March 2, 2022March 3, 2022

Christian “Hate Crimes?”

Upcoming posts will discuss the current move in Europe and beyond to criminalize a form of Christian Therapy that Evangelical Christians have employed.

But first this unseemly development on the Religious Freedom front.

A Finnish prosecutor has charged two Christians with hate crimes for publicly expressing their Christian beliefs about sex and marriage. One member of parliament and a bishop of the Lutheran church found themselves in a Finnish hate crime crosshair. A government minister (MP) recently raised hate crime suspicions by tweeting a negative opinion of her Church’s leadership because of their intent to sponsor a Pride Parade.

For that expression of her deeply held beliefs (that many Christians may oppose) and some previous statements by her from years ago, she has been charged with a hate crime.

Hard to believe. But here are the details. By the way, the interviewer in the video below says he is baffled by this even though he is a gay Catholic. You should be too.

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Again, many Christians may disagree with the MP and the Lutheran Bishop but surely we can agree that this shouldn’t be a prosecutable offense.

Is this the world we want to live in?

You can find more information about this story here. (The usual link disclaimer applies. ¹)