After reading THIS article, I felt moved this morning to head off topic from my typical COVID writings. Because I serve a broad patient base, I witness things on a daily basis that appear to have trends and it raises my awareness and curiosity of certain topics. One trend in my younger patient population, is the broad observation that my young male and female patients present with less and less outward distinction of their gender. What do I mean by this? Several times a month, if I did not know the patient’s name and gender from health history records, I would not be able to tell from his/her appearance. Boys are presenting super, slender with their fingernails painted, skinny jeans and their hair up in a messy bun (which sadly, often looks way better than my bun). Then I see girls with super short, boy cuts and dressed in non-distinct clothing who then talk to me about their partners (of the same gender). I recently heard this from a 13 year old girl who shared she identified as non-binary.
I have not admit, I had to look up what this meant. Sure, I have heard of transgender adults but I am not well-versed in this new topic of gender fluidity. As a Christian and raising my children in a Christian household, they know that they are created perfectly in God’s image and they live in this reality (Genesis 1:27). Growing up is hard, it is confusing and it is stressful. For most of my readers, we went through these same challenges but we did not have the added complication of the internet to fan the flames of our delusions. What is painful to observe, is that instead of seeing this as something akin to the body dysmorphia of the 70s, 80s and 90s where we actually offered these young children and adults therapy to help them overcome their delusion that they were fat or somehow imperfect, now society encourages and celebrates this confusion.
In actuality, the term "liberation" is a misnomer, since "[t]his seemingly benign view has consequences for how we socialize children and organize society. It calls into question sex-protected rights and freedom of association. The existence of female-only prisons and refuges or girls' schools, clubs and sports is thrown into doubt. Yet far from engaging in a free and open discussion, transgender activists have moved to curtail debate."
In fact, Joe Biden's Department of Education may sue schools that do not affirm a student's transgender identity. Moreover, "an inmate at Illinois' largest women's prison says she was raped by a transgender inmate who was transferred into her housing unit." So much for the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA). In Canada, officials punished Rob Hoogland because he tried to save his emotionally unstable daughter from self-destruction.
And ultimately, the truth behind what all of this does, is to destroy the family. This is where there should be much effort to stand against this movement before the family unit is completely dismantled and society destroyed.
What starts out "as a celebration of gender turns out to be an edict for the elimination of the sex distinction itself, which, in turn, erodes the family — the essential cradle of humanity."
When men can claim to be women, it is ushering in a movement where women are, for all intents and purposes, being purged from society. Now "transwomen are women" at the expense of actual women.
Pray for these children, for the families who are struggling with helping their child to live in reality, to celebrate the beautiful child of God that they are and to embrace who they were created to be.
Right
One thing to embody ambiguity
Another to eliminate the female and male
When I was young I'd tuck it twixt my legs and pretend to be female...
I guess all boys did
Now society has started to say:
Keep it tucked in there, it ain't to come out...
I mean, clarity on sexuality comes around puberty. One don't want to tie oneself down, but some things really are mostly binary,
So I think of embody ambiguity as a spiritual more than physical thing...
But in my lifetime I grew up with ten sets of foster parents....so my family has always been destroyed...