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INCONSISTENT TREATMENT OF TRANSGENDERISM
INCONSISTENT TREATMENT OF TRANSGENDERISM
Source: Michelle Cretella, "I’m a Pediatrician. Here’s What I Did When a Little Boy Patient Said He Was a Girl." The Daily Signal, 11 December 2017.
"Biological sex is not assigned. Sex is determined at conception by our DNA and is stamped into every cell of our bodies. Human sexuality is binary. You either have a normal Y chromosome, and develop into a male, or you don’t, and you will develop into a female. There are at least 6,500 genetic differences between men and women. Hormones and surgery cannot change this."
"An identity is not biological, it is psychological. It has to do with thinking and feeling. Thoughts and feelings are not biologically hardwired. Our thinking and feeling may be factually right or factually wrong."
"If I walk into my doctor’s office today and say, ‘Hi, I’m Margaret Thatcher,’ my physician will say I am delusional and give me an anti-psychotic. Yet, if instead, I walked in and said, ‘I’m a man,’ he would say, ‘Congratulations, you’re transgender.’ If I were to say, ‘Doc, I am suicidal because I’m an amputee trapped in a normal body, please cut off my leg,’ I will be diagnosed with body identity integrity disorder. But if I walk into that doctor’s office and say, ‘I am a man, sign me up for a double mastectomy,’ my physician will. See, if you want to cut off a leg or an arm, you’re mentally ill, but if you want to cut off healthy [gender-specific organs, L.S.], you’re transgender."
"Sometimes, mental illness of a parent or abuse of the child are factors; but more commonly, the child has misperceived family dynamics and internalized a false belief."
"... when supported in their biological sex through natural puberty, the vast majority of gender-confused children get better."
"Mind you, the American Academy of Pediatrics recently came out with a report that urges pediatricians to caution teenagers about getting tattoos because they are essentially permanent and can cause scarring. But this same AAP is 110 percent in support of 16-year-old girls getting a double mastectomy, even without parental consent, so long as the girl insists that she is a man, and has been taking testosterone daily for one year."
"To indoctrinate all children from preschool forward with the lie that they could be trapped in the wrong body disrupts the very foundation of a child’s reality testing. If they can’t trust the reality of their physical bodies, who or what can they trust?"
God is clear that feelings are not an accurate guide. The heart is the seat of emotions and feelings, but God said, "The heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately sick; Who can understand it?" (Jeremiah 17:9). We have wicked people teaching vulnerable children that their feelings are more important than reality.
"Thus says the LORD, 'Stand by the ways and see and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is, and walk in it; and you will find rest for your souls.' But they said, 'We will not walk in it.'" (Jeremiah 6:16).
--lavistachurchofchrist.org
Comments from Lanny: I’ve said for quite a while now that the modern fascination with transgenderism is nothing short of mental illness. Our society will reap the terrible fruits of this insanity for years to come! “They sow the wind,
and reap the whirlwind” (Hos.8:7).
