Transgender Ideology - God’s Good Creation

August 13, 2021January 22, 2022

Cari, DeTransitioner

Two fairly short videos below by an articulate DeTransitioner.¹ From her own personal experience, Cari superbly frames the issue.

DeTransitioner numbers are growing rapidly. Their stories complicate the sunny picture frequently presented in the media about our “gender-fluid future.” And they are either ignored or heavily criticized by Trans-Activists. They need to be heard. They need our support and love.

Please note the following important terms & phrases: a mental health condition called “dissociative disorder,” also “maladaptive coping mechanism,” “decoupling my sense of self from my body” “shifting dysphoria” & “gatekeeping.”

Listen carefully.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3-r7ttcw6c

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Our young people are not getting the mental health care or the spiritual support they need. We need more “gatekeeping!”

Also, as I study this issue I constantly find homosexuals saying they are so glad they are not teens today. They might have tried to medicalize their identity, changing their bodies forever. Like Cari did. The Lesbian community in particular is being decimated. Less feminine “gender non-conforming” girls who might explore that possibility are being told they just might be guys. As I’ve written several times before, homosexuals typically don’t deny their biological sex. What we are seeing with today’s gender ideology is a different, confusing, contradictory mess. (Unless your aim is to radically restructure society.)

Unfortunately because of ideology and quite frankly a lot of ignorance young people are groomed to deny biological sex. “Affirming” clinicians & counselors put them on a fast-track to Transition. After irreversible damage to her body, Cari wishes she had received better care from the professionals. They failed her.

“I want to ask you, how many other medical conditions are there where you can walk into the doctor’s office, tell them you have a certain condition, which has no objective test, which can be caused by trauma or mental health issues or societal factors, and receive life-altering medications on your say-so?”

Listen carefully.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L2jyEDwpEw

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If you’ve just found my blog and are intrigued about this issue, and want to learn more, I highly recommend a book by Abigail Shrier.

Shrier is a graduate of Columbia College who went on to earn a bachelor of philosophy degree from the University of Oxford and a JD from Yale Law School. Her book Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters was named a “best book” by The Economist and The Times of London. [2020, 2021]

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Being a Classic Christian I regard Gender Ideology as anti-creational to the core. This blog is about “God’s Good Creation.” That’s why I’m writing about this issue. Christians (and everybody else) let’s get informed. And speak 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]

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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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August 13, 2021August 13, 2021

J.K. Rowling Letter

Since the famed author of the Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling, came up in my last post, I thought you might like to read her public letter from June of last year, 2020. In it she documents her “fall from grace” in the eyes of Gender Ideologues. And many of her fans. But she has gained new fans for publicly stating that “biology is not bigotry.”

Of course, unlike Canadian Nurse Amy Hamm who publicly defended Rowling and jeopardized her career for doing so, Ms. Rowling is a multi-billionaire and can “take the heat” as they say. Still, no one, no matter how rich, enjoys having their reputation unjustifiably sullied. I’m glad a popular public figure bravely spoke out on this issue.

I was particularly agitated by the news from Rowling that a brave young feminist and lesbian Magdalen Berns, who Rowling followed on Twitter, was castigated by the Trans-Activist “Twitter mob” for saying she “didn’t believe lesbians should be called bigots for not dating trans women with penises.”

I’ve heard about similar attacks of other lesbians for refusing to accept Trans-women (with penises) as suitable partners. This is the warped logic some Trans-activists embrace and expect you to embrace as well. Or you will be publicly shamed. They must be accepted as who they say they are irrespective of biology.

Is this the world we want to live in? We better come up with some answers quick. Things are moving swiftly.

Rowling mentions a hopeful sign, though. She knew she was going to be attacked for publicly supporting someone fired from her job “for what were deemed ‘transphobic’ tweets.” But she gratefully received an avalanche of support as well from the silent majority who also worry about today’s “climate of fear” generated by Gender Ideologues.

Following the link below you will learn another acronym coined by Trans-Activitists, TERF which stands for Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist. I’ve already highlighted one Radical Feminist in a previous post. And will continue to do so in future posts. Many self-described Radical Feminists are convinced Gender Ideology is hurting women.

Read what Rowling had to say about our uncivil “toxic” age. Adults need to cease “cowering before the tactics of the playground.” She posted a very informed letter on her blog, succinctly covering most of the bases I’ve blogged about in the last few months. And has earned my respect. See if she can earn yours.

Link to the Letter.

J.K. Rowling Writes about Her Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and Gender Issues

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If you’ve just found my blog and are intrigued about the issue and want to learn more, I highly recommend a book by Abigail Shrier.

August 9, 2021June 22, 2022

“Irreversible Damage” Interview

Since my “Starting Again” post (after leaving my blog dormant for a year) I’ve been pushing Abigail Shrier’s book, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters.

I just came across a recent interview of Abigail. It is an excellent summary of the hypothesis of her book: the recent explosion of girls identifying as Transgender is because of social contagion. This is must see for those concerned about this issue. Please check it out below.

For more than a year, I’ve been thinking that Online Porn is a key reason why so many young girls identify as “boys” in the Western world. If you think your Smartphone toting 12 year old son or daughter are not watching some of the most revolting sexual images you can imagine, then you are deluding yourself. Boys are learning at a very young age how to objectify and denigrate women. Porn is stunting healthy sexual development. You don’t need a professional psychiatrist to tell you this. If they are not getting porn on their phone because you think you have “locked it down” (dream on!) then they are watching porn on the Smartphone of a friend. And many young girls are saying to themselves, if this is what it means to be a woman, get me outta here! I think Online Porn is a reason why some of our girls are checking out other options. It helps to explain the explosive growth of adolescent onset gender-dysphoria among our girls.

There are other forces at play as well. Deep depression. Personal trauma. Anxiety. Autism. But these co-morbidities are rarely analyzed before “fast-tracking” youths to transition.

Also I think something else is in play. Girls from middle and upper middle class backgrounds are constantly being told they are the victims of Patriarchy and that men get all the breaks in our 21st century western world. Plus, they are being told that if they are white then they are members of the oppressor class. (The vast majority of teens claiming to be Trans or non-binary are white girls from middle & upper middle class “progressive” families.) So coming out as Trans or Non-binary lends social credibility to their existence. It’s very socially rewarding. All they need to give up is “a pound of flesh.” And perhaps future fertility (though this is hardly mentioned). But they will receive praise and affirmation for their new-found “authentic” selves. This is where the influence of social media looms large.

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The interviewer John Anderson and Abigail discuss Porn as well as the overall “affirming” environment that is “grooming” our girls and boys down the path toward exotic identity expressions. 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 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 without a note from a therapist or her mother can receive doses of testosterone 40 times the natural female level. I’m investigating “the money trail” argument and will be blogging about this soon.

But first this important interview.

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The interviewer John Anderson served as Deputy Prime Minister of Australia for 6 years between 1999 and 2005 under John Howard. I recommend you “turn on” the CC (Closed Captioning) since he has an Australian accent that may be a little hard to understand for some of you, especially those with hearing loss <grin.>.

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Again, Shrier’s book Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters is a must read. She’s a fine and careful writer. And as she says in the interview above, the amount of vitriol sent her way for writing such a thoughtful book is shameful and also indicative of the fight ahead. But our children are worth that fight. Civil Society is worth that fight.

Of course, for my Christian Brothers and Sisters, we must fight the way Jesus fought. Silencing, deplatforming, cancelling, shouting down our ideological opponents is not Christian. We must listen to what they have to say. And then speak the Truth as we understand it. Unfortunately, the more I study this issue and the forces in play, I’m led to the conclusion that the Gender Ideologues are not terribly interested in dialogue or viewpoint diversity. For them, this is a massive Power Play.

If you disagree with them, as I do. You need to learn and take a stand. I hope to help you in that effort.

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