Can you believe that we’re at such a stage — constantly hearing and debating about and being accused of “bias” in what is now called the “trans issue”?
Years ago — way back, in the 1980s — the uber-liberal New Yorker Magazine ran a tremendously lengthy account of transsexuals in New York City, as a writer went underground, mainly in seedy Times Square, with the few poor such individuals who existed back then.
Despite that strong liberalism, the piece painted an overwhelmingly dismal picture, portraying the handful of people who sought to permanently alter their gender as mentally ill and extremely — in some cases frighteningly — depressed. The main person who was the focus of the article, if memory serves, was at the very cusp of suicide.
In great need of counseling, and prayer (not depiction, and certainly not hatred). The presence of diabolique was palpable.
That wasn’t due to the way society treated people who had gender dysphoria.
It was due to the “condition” itself.
Again, “dismal” doesn’t do it justice.
Never, in one’s wildest imagining, could one have foreseen that the United States or any country — including the Netherlands — would ever get to the point of normalizing such a pathology. Of course, neither can one wrap one’s brain around normalizing witchcraft, the perversions of heterosexual sex, euthanasia, and infanticide. To be yet more candid about it: transsexualism, more than a medical or psychological condition, often involves demonic possession: A female spirit taking over a male body, or vice-versa.
Just the facts, ma’am (or sir).
The term “transsexualism” was invented by psychiatrists.
How far have our imaginings wandered? There’s also, in our bizarre time, a supposed condition called “species dysphoria” or “species identity disorder” (or: “clinical lycanthropy”). This refers to a person who feels they are in the body of the wrong species. Examples of people claiming animal status were Texas girl ‘Wolfie Blackheart,’ Norwegian woman “Nano” (who claimed she was a cat), and members of the groups known as “otherkin,” “therians” and “furries.”
No such mentally ill person and no transsexual should be anything but loved and prayed for. To disdain a person is not to help them. This is not about hate. It’s about love.
And love does not encourage to continue a perversion.
There are people, male and female, who seem born with opposite-gender proclivities. This is true. There are hormonal imbalances. There are effeminate boys. There are masculinized girls.
That makes them “tomboys,” not “transgenders.”
God knows what He is doing. We all have unusual and challenging traits. We all have crosses. We all have things to overcome. There are oddities. There are things we can’t quite fathom, while wearing the blinders of earth.
And no surgery — only prayer, only fasting — will ever cause that to change.
Notes a biblical site: “Sexual sins, including transgenderism, were among the most heinous practices of the peoples living in Canaan. The lessons of their judgment because of deviant sexual practices remain as ominous warning signs to us today. When we prefer unbelief to faith in God, in order to advance the lusts of our flesh, we inevitably, and often irretrievably, destine ourselves for judgment. In the cases before us, the people groups living in Canaan digressed from what is clearly shown in creation and in God’s Word—that we are born as either male or female, and that our God-given human sexuality is divinely sanctioned, and most beautifully expressed as complimentary (man and woman), and within the covenanted bonds of matrimony (husband and wife)—led to a veritable infestation of the land, which “vomited” the people from the land, and led to judicial hardening of their hearts, and their ultimate destruction.”