Posted on 04/10/2019 12:48:33 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
The other day I was speaking before a group on the topics of homosexuality and transgenderism, and I asked, “How many of you would say the transgender revolution has been going on ten years now? Raise your hands, please.” Would you raise your hand? Almost half of them did.
The truth? I gauge it off my book Critical Conversations: A Christian Parents’ Guide to Discussing Homosexuality With Teens, which I sent off to final editing and production right after the Obergefell gay marriage decision in June, 2015. I said almost nothing about the transgenderism it — because the transgender movement was hardly in view at that time.
I’d just missed it, in fact. Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner’s July 2015Vanity Fair cover story had just come out. That was the moment the transgender movement took off. Obviously it had been getting a bit of a boost by being the “T” in “LGBT.” But Jenner’s magazine cover gave the movement rocket-launch momentum. That was less than four years ago. The first real public controversy over “transgender rights” came with North Carolina’s bathroom bill, which started making news in March 2016 — barely more than three years ago.
Decades Worth of Damage in Four Short Years
Did you think it had been longer than that? Don’t feel bad. It sure seems like longer. The trans movement has done way more than ten years’ worth of damage. News from Great Britain today underscores that. The Tavistock Centre in London is the United Kingdom’s one publicly funded clinic treating transgender children and adolescents. Five clinicians have just resigned from there “over concerns children were being incorrectly diagnosed with gender dysphoria,” according to the Daily Mail.
The same report quotes Carl Heneghan, director of the Centre of Evidence-based Medicine at Oxford University: “Given paucity of evidence, the off-label use of drugs in gender dysphoria treatment largely means an unregulated live experiment on children.”
Let that sink in. Don’t rush past it. This movement is pushing for an unregulated live experiment on children. This is evil. And it’s growing. Fast. For years the Tavistock Centre received about 50 transgender referrals a year. Last year it got about that many per week.
The actual total in the 2017-2018 reporting year was 2,519 children referred for treatment. How many of them were really struggling with authentic gender identity problems? How many were experiencing another, unrelated point of pain in their lives, and thought they might find relief in becoming someone else? Or, how many were “transtrenders,” simply following a crowd? How many saw it as cool path to anti-adult rebellion?
And how wise is it for adults to administer medicine and perform surgeries locking young people into immature confusions and youthful fads? Could there be anything more foolish than that? Anything?
Thousands Pushed Mindlessly to Ruin
Yes, there could be. Run the numbers, and you’ll find it’s even more insane than you likely realized. Research shows that among children who genuinely struggle with gender identity, at least 85 percent of them simply outgrow it. Now, let’s go way out on a limb and suppose that maybe one out of five of these 2,519 children who went to the Tavistock Centre last year had that real struggle going on, with the rest either confused or “transtrender.”
That would mean about 500 children having the real struggle — ten times as many as the pre-2010 years. That seems like a generous estimate to me.
These people perpetuating this need to be expedited to meet God.
what other country besides the US and GB put up with this crap? ( on such a large scale)
I just looked up the percentage of people who ID as transgender in the world and it said 0.6% POINT six percent!!!! And it gets ALL this attention??? I wonder how many childhood diseases - LIFE THREATENING diseases - that have a much higher percentage in the population get the amount of media attention trans do.
In my opinion, there is no such thing as “transgender”...You cannot change from XY chromosomes to XX chromosomes...
The only thing even close would be those who have themselves surgically altered...
Before that happens, they are only “transvestites”....
Satan working overtime. He knows his time is short.
Grooming. The kids were conditioned with these notions by radicals.
They are being exploited.
From what I’ve seen it’s the gateway to regret, depression, and suicide. Hopefully lessons get learned and this sad trend fades away.
I don’t really care if some grown man wants to get his Johnson chopped off. But this stuff with the kids is outrageous. They are going to be screwed up for the rest of their lives, just so their parent(s) have bragging rights. But what to do? I would be loathe to abridge parental rights because that is a double edged sword. We may have to let them screw up their kids so we can raise ours to be healthy and sane. As awful as this is, the real problem is: how the hell did we get to where this is a thing?
The number one topic on Trans sites is if they look enough lady like to pass.
Most talk about killing themselves.
Sorry gloBULL warming is the biggest hoax EVER!
Too late for one of my family members
“Too late for one of my family members”
Sorry to hear that. I suppose this is a rhetorical question, but: Did it make them happy?
“Too late for one of my family members.”
Sorry to hear that Scott.
“They are being exploited”
It is a kind of victim porn, experienced by proxy.
Just like anything else your main job is just to protect your own kids
Set a good example
Let insane be
We got to where this is a thing through several incremental steps, methinks, although it basically boils down to following the money. Consider the old argument that gender differences are merely social or cultural constructs. This stops sane proponents of women’s rights (like Camille Paglia and Martina Navratilova) from arguing that women can’t consider themselves men and vice versa. Add in the special privileges accorded women these days what with affirmative action for jobs and schooling and the increasingly lucrative women’s athletic contests and mediocre athletic men have an interest in being considered women, at least temporarily. Add in the cultural pressure not to judge anyone’s sexual tastes. It is a seriously messed up recipe for societal devolution.
For now, sure, but time will tell. She (now I guess it's he) is only 18.
Joseph Mengele would fit right in.
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