Fearlessly Courageous
Desk of Dennis Piller
3 18 2024
The Transgender Fantasy
When issues of what it means to be human surface — and this is at the center of the debate over transgenderism — it’s important that pastors and parents seek to bring the full counsel of God’s word to bear on the issue at hand. I admit today this may be more of a wake-up call than a devotional.
But, as a parent, it means being more involved and more knowledgeable. Society has changed, laws have changed that exclude us from even knowing or being considered in this vital area of mental health for our children. While we are saving for retirement and paying our dues in supporting our families financially, the world has turned our children upside down regarding their gender and who they are. While we look on, almost oblivious to what our kids are seeing, hearing, and being indelibly influenced by.
“Transgender is an umbrella term for many experiences, at its most basic, it describes people whose internal, subjective sense of gender or identity doesn’t match the objective sex they were born into”.
I listened to a podcast from Senator Kennedy as he spoke to the assembly and it was heart-wrenching to hear the statistics and the facts that surround this new phase of inclusion and acceptance that is being forced down our throats. It has become a movement. It has already invaded our Human Resource Departments in the way people want to be addressed or how they sign their names. But it’s all about – What is a man? What is a women? When I grew up these were not controversial topics but now we can’t discuss them without fear of offending someone or being listed as a bigot or a supremist.
In theological terms, we call this ontology, which is the study of being. From Genesis 1: 26-28 onward, Scripture teaches that males and females are biological and embodied beings with immutable natures. We cannot change who we are. God didn’t make a mistake. There was never an Oops. Now I know I am going to lose some readers by this piece, but I believe Scripture supports what I am saying even though the world will be in my face this morning. If we have a battle to fight, it is with spiritual forces of evil, not flesh and blood. Eph 6:12 We no more chose our parents or our sex. God did and He is all loving and wise.
Andrew Walker Professor of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary said, “This reality of nature leads to one of the most important truths: actual transgenderism does not exist. Sure, there are people who may have genuine confusion over their “gender identity” (a concept itself riddled with problems), but the idea that there are persons truly “trapped” in the wrong body is false. Scripture does not allow for such a dualism between the body and the “self.”
We are already seeing many living testaments to the falseness of this transgender ideology online. Called “de-transitioners” they tell their stories of how sad they are from going down this road, and now they are being silenced by mainstream sources. A growing chorus of voices is warning others of the contagion-like consequences of embracing a transgender worldview.
We as Christians are not far behind what is happening to the Jews today even here in America.
It will require more courage than we might have today to be a voice for God in today’s culture. It is hard to be a parent or a guiding grandparent today but not as hard as being a kid or young adult between social media and cell phones. Our kids have grown up in a way we could never imagine. Senator Kennedy also said. This is an onslaught of Identity-Obsessed activism. He said before these kids learn the difference between adjectives and verbs the government is teaching our kids in school transgender pronouns and public libraries are hosting Drag Queen Story-times for kids of all ages.
The National Teachers Union actually runs a website with lessons on how teachers can help children hide their transgender status from their parents.
Tik Tock functions as a how-to transition guide to transgenderism.
There is movement after movement seeking to inject questions about gender and sexuality into every aspect of our child’s life with or without parental approval. And if they do, they are typically smeared as bigots and even losing custody of their children for refusing to adopt protrans gender ideology.
But this goes much further. They are giving children irreversible medical treatments
before they can understand the consequences.
Senator Kennedy said, 85% of kids who say they’re confused about their gender will outgrow it in adolescence. Yet activists like Planned Parenthood want to put them under the knife or pump them full of steroids before these minors can grasp the consequences. Many are irreversible.
They are telling the world the only way to respond to a child who says they may be a wrong gender is, “in all cases” to agree with them! Yes if a first-grade boy says he’s a girl on Monday parents are told to agree. Has your youngster even said, they were a lion and roared like one? I assume you didn’t call animal control or return them to the zoo. Look, I know Gender Dysphoria is a a real and difficult condition for a small subset of our population, but to blindly affirm whatever a youngster tells you about their identity gender or if a 13 yrs old tells you he’s a Nascar driver you don’t give him the keys to your car. They’re a kid! Yet they pressure parents to subject their kids to life-altering surgeries and life-altering hormone treatment. Puberty blockers are often the starting point (as young as 8 yrs old) to prevent breast development or prevent genital growth in boys that can inflict lasting damage. Some of these hormones are the same ones used to chemically castrate sex offenders. WHAT? You heard me correctly.
Finally, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, (known for its support of pediatric transgender policies) has said, that girls as young as 15 should be able to have double mastectomies and by 17 boys should be able to receive vaginoplasty inserts after they remove their penises.
If that doesn’t make you go weak at the knees!
As parents, we have a right to raise our children and we have not given that over to the government or the powerful trends of our day. No child is mature enough to make these kinds of decisions.
I believe our place as Christians is not to condemn people who are struggling with this identity crisis,
and their mental health. We should want to love them, but also help them in their thinking.
But we cannot be silent.
Ps 119:45 says, “ I will walk about in freedom, for I have sought out your precepts. 46 I will speak of your statutes before kings and will not be put to shame,
47 for I delight in your commands because I love them”.
Not everyone is an angry transgender activist. Most are vulnerable, confused, and have deeply unresolved personal and psychological issues, who need counseling and love, not scorn or mockery, but we must be more than minorly educated to not just stand up for our rights
but to be able to point them to their maker.
I believe the Gospel is big enough for all of this and all of us?
Romans 1:16 says, “For it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes”.
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