THE ONLY TRUE WAY TO ‘SELF-IDENTIFY’ IS AS A CHILD OF GOD

Almost 200 years ago, Hans Christian Andersen wrote the famous folktale, “The Emperor’s New Clothes.” There are a couple of morals to this story – that people should be willing to speak up if they know the truth and that people should not believe things without empirical evidence. As you recall from this tale, it takes a child to point out the elephant in the room to all the adults who are either too embarrassed or too pressured to tell the truth. Perhaps we should write a modern version of “The Emperor’s New Clothes” and call it “The Man’s New Gender.” In this adaptation, there would be a plurality of adults who are too manipulated or too intimidated to tell the truth and point out a number of elephants in the room – such as “transgenderism” isn’t real, “gender identity” is a fake concept, and “sex change” is impossible.

Nothing is more distorted from the truth these days and also attacking children in unprecedented numbers than the craze of so-called transgenderism. “Transgenderism” is not only about mentally confused people playing pretend, but it’s also about demanding the world play along, just as all the emperor’s subjects felt obliged to play along with the emperor pretending.

As the father of lies, Satan distorts the truth and provides all the rationalizations why something is right, even though God and the Church teach it as wrong. We are all targets of the evil one, who lures us into a sense of false security to believe we can build our own little kingdom here and now without any need of God. The propagandists in the so-called *LGBTQIA2S+ community have already succumbed to Satan’s lures; they see traditional Christian views on sexuality as wrong and their distorted views on sexuality as right. Parents, if you want to make sure your kids don’t submit as well to these evil lures, you have to work exceedingly hard, and I’ll explain in this post why and how to do this.

* Note: LGBTQIA2S+ is the latest politically correct acronym used by the culture to describe people who don’t follow the original manner of sexuality as intended by God and who want to be categorized according to their sexual appetites. (Can you guess what all the letters, numbers, and symbols stand for before looking them up online? You’ll be amazed when you see the variety of sexes! Who knew?! And you assumed God  made only two?! How passe’!) I will continue to use this elongated and seemingly unending acronym throughout my posts purely to magnify both its crudeness and ridiculousness.

Up until 10 years ago, “transgender” was listed as a mental illness and disorder by the American Psychiatric Association’s Manual of Mental Disorders. But in 2013 the definition was downgraded to call it a “dysphoria – an emotional state of distress which results from one’s gender identity.” This sleight-of-hand in altering terminology didn’t come about because of advances in science, but due to pressure and lobbying from various pro-LGBTQIA2S+ groups so to gain mainstream society’s acceptance and counter what they said was a stigma and discrimination toward so-called trans people. This demonstrates how the American Psychiatric Association has become more political than scientific in recent years, such as how their 2013 revision of terms included changing “male” and “female” to “individual assigned male (or female) at birth” and changing “Latino/Latina” to the newly created, inauthentic word “Latinx.”

The transgender movement is attempting to change in the eyes of popular society the nature of the male and female human body just as the homosexual movement improperly changed the nature of marriage. Both movements establish a revolt against God our Creator, and what makes things worse is how the transgender movement is purposely trying to snare and corrupt youngsters.

On the supernatural level, so-called transgenderism is wrong because we know that every human person is “created in the image and likeness of God, male or female” (Genesis 1:26-27). On the scientific level, it also wrong because we know that hundreds of years after a woman dies, if her body in the grave is exhumed, the archaeologist or forensic scientist can immediately state the corpse is a female. It has nothing to do with assigning the sex at birth, as the nefarious propagandists insist. It’s a fact that men’s and women’s bodies are different, from when first seen in an ultrasound before one is born to hundreds of years after one dies.

It is sad that a person with gender dysphoria (i.e. a so-called transgender person) is detached from reality, and it’s sadder still that so many preteens and teenagers are being persuaded by social media, mainstream media, celebrities, and even the educational system to not only consider transgenderism the latest and greatest trend, but to consider it may be the solution to their issues. Throughout history, teens and preteens during puberty – due to raging hormones and attempts to understand their lives – have sought affirmation, identity, and attention. In our current society, these kids are being indoctrinated to believe their questions on their identity can be answered by supposing they were assigned the wrong sex at birth. It is now considered that the cool and rad thing for a kid to do is to announce you’re a different gender than the one God gave you and to tell people your new name and what pronouns you are using.

Susceptibility to popular delusions has happened throughout time, but with the fallacy of the transgender movement, the people who are more susceptible appear to be youngsters, and especially those with autism spectrum disorder. Teens and preteens who are on the autism spectrum (which includes children who previously would have been referred to as having Asperger’s syndrome) have difficulties developing and maintaining friendships, communicating with peers and adults, or understanding what behaviors are expected of them. They often will also have anxiety and depression. Autism in the general community is estimated to be no more than 4%, but research in the publication European Psychiatry found that “14% of the transgender and non-binary group had a diagnosis of autism, while a further 28% of this group reached the cut-off point for an autism diagnosis, suggesting a high number of potentially undiagnosed individuals.”

Whereas, I maintain it’s sad that so many preteens and teenagers are being allured to consider transgenderism as they are undergoing some type of psychological stress, it’s downright evil that progressive parents and immoral medical professionals are enabling youngsters to believe their dysphoria is real, to the point of drugging and/or mutilating them. And it’s absolutely infuriating that the so-called transgender movement has brainwashed, coerced, and/or threatened much of society to go along with this detachment and lie.

If you refuse to go along with the lie, if you firmly insist “transgender” is a made-up word, and if you reject using the so-called preferred pronouns of a person because you know that’s a dishonest sham, you will be harassed and called a hater or “transphobe” (another made-up word). I challenge you to not be like so many in society these days who jump on the current culture’s bandwagon, no matter how perverted that bandwagon has become in recent generations, and support or at least tolerate the so-called transgender movement. Be strong. Be truthful. Be like the outlying, brave child in “The Emperor’s New Clothes” who refuses to go along.

I know it’s extremely difficult and possibly risky for job security and also friend security to speak out in a counter-cultural manner. But the reluctance to speak out is a big reason why the immorality of society has progressed in such a speedy manner in recent years. Out of fear of being labeled a so-called hater, too many good Christians have committed the sin of omission when they didn’t speak up to say such-and-such is wrong and we’re not going to go along with it. Especially when the situation involves corrupting kids, educators and parents need to bring to mind Jesus’s words:

“If any of you put a stumbling block before one of these little ones (children) who believe in me, it would be better for you if a great millstone were fastened around your neck, and you were drowned in the depth of the sea. (Matthew 18:6)

When you reveal that “the emperor has no clothes” by openly expressing a disdain for how the so-called transgender movement harms children, be prepared for the propagandists to quickly react by saying you just hate trans kids.  Your first comeback should be that just as you don’t hate children who believe the Easter bunny is real or kids who run around wearing capes and believe they are superheroes, your disdain isn’t directed at naive youngsters who have fallen for the fantasy that they are so-called transgender. Your contempt is toward adults who are sexualizing children at young ages and grooming them to join their false and dangerous cult.  

Make it clear that your disgust is not toward so-called trans kids who are the victims; it’s toward adults who at worse are encouraging and sanctioning risky and wicked acts and at best are “going along to get along” by saying nothing. The Dr. Frankenstein-like acts being directed these days at youngsters, that if undertaken a generation ago would have put the medical person or parent who authorized them in jail, include these:

• Binding the breasts of young girls with wraps or garments or even performing elective mastectomies so they can pretend to be breast-less boys;
• Castrating young boys by literally cutting off their testicles and penises so they can pretend to be phallus-less girls;
• Performing elective hysterectomies on girls to remove their ovaries and uteruses, often followed by attaching prosthetic penises;
• Prescribing drugs for boys and girls that will block their natural puberty progression (such as broadening hips and menstrual periods for girls and facial hair and muscle mass for boys) while presenting no long-term studies to know what negative effects this could have on the children’s psychological development, let along their brain and bone development. 

The other side will call you unchristian for not accepting a confused person’s “truth,” for not using a person’s so-called preferred pronouns, and for expressing your abhorrence at how the lie of transgenderism is harming children. But you will know – as an authentic Christian – that real charity must be grounded in the truth. 

You can show love toward another person without accepting any lies he or she may profess, such as, “I’m really the opposite sex I was born.” So-called transgenderism cries out for compassionate help, trying to get the person to accept their body as God’s gift and valuing the femininity or masculinity of the sex in which God created them. But compassion does not mean to agree with a so-called transgendered person who denies God creates only two sexes – male and female – or to capitulate to the delusion that one can change one’s sex by using different pronouns and cutting off body parts. That would be misplaced-compassion.

Ultimately, all parents these days need to be proactive and protective, lest your child could be pulled into the social contagion before you know it. Don’t wait until you see signs of your daughter wanting to be a boy or your son wanting to be a girl. Instead, if you have a preteen or older child, start this week discussing as a family the gender ideology craze and use both scientific and religious reasons to explain why it is wrong, and likewise, why the popular culture is wrong to endorse it.

Furthermore, parents, don’t wait to remove the environmental sources – peers, school, social media – that often contribute to preteens and teens getting sucked into this incorrect thinking of gender ideology. Don’t let your children hang around others who are into transgender beliefs, don’t allow your kids to be in a school where teachers go along with or possibly even encourage changing students’ pronouns, and do limit your children’s social media. All of these steps are especially vital if your child is already showing signs of depression or anxiety, or if your child is considered to be on the autism spectrum, as these characteristics are regularly seen in kids – and especially girls – who begin to believe they are so-called trans.

If you are the parent of a child who is ill from gender dysphoria, avoid at all costs having your child receive so-called gender-affirming therapy, which is just another fake term presented by advocates of gender ideology. Oppose simpleminded solutions such as going along with calling the child by a new name and altered pronouns to appease or placate him or her. And no matter the cost to your relationship with your child or with others, never agree to altering the appearance of your child’s body through drugs or surgeries. Instead of all of these dishonest, disproved, and deluded acts, the action to take is to search for the real reasons for your child’s illness and struggles. It could be as basic as he or she is going through the same puberty-anxiety and teenage-confusion issues all previous generations have gone through, but now there is a doubt in your child’s head fueled by the voices online, and/or in the media, and/or at school who are telling him or her that maybe the anxiety and confusion all has to do with the misgendered-at-birth vogue. Or it could be a truly psychological illness that needs bonafide mental help.

Parents should find trustworthy clinicians and therapists (who have safe and sane beliefs like this Johns Hopkins psychiatrist) as well as get support through talking to other parents who have been through similar trials but resisted succumbing to the gender ideology craze. Parents should also be firm in telling their child’s school administration that they do not give permission for any teacher or counselor to talk privately with their child without the parent’s consent, and that the child is not to be called a different name or be addressed with false pronouns at school. Stand firm and don’t let others refer to your child as a transgender child. You may have a troubled child, being brainwashed in depravity and vulgarity, or you may have a child suffering from the mental illness of gender dysphoria, but your youngster should not be referred to as the made-up term, transgender.

If you are a Catholic school teacher who suspects a student is ill from gender dysphoria, communicate immediately with the parents so together you can help their child realize that peace and resolution will not be found in rejecting the truth of the human person God created. As the adults in the child’s life, the teacher and the parents should tell the child the truth – that they are loved and that they matter, and that Jesus loves them too. Tell the child the truth – that his or her body was beautifully and wonderfully created by God, and that the Almighty did not make a mistake when He made him or her. Tell the child the truth – that disfiguring or maiming the body will not bring enduring peace, but that counseling, prayer, and a sincere support system can help him or her overcome feelings of loneliness and self-loathing, and that our Lord will never abandon a child of God.

No matter what the mouthpieces in the so-called LGBTQIA2S+ community continue to tell us, authentic Christians know the propagandists’ revised tale of “The Man’s New Gender” is a lie. Both science and years of Church teaching agree with the fact that there are only two sexes, determined at conception and matter-of-factly acknowledged at birth, and there are biological differences between and a complementary nature of a man and a woman. Up until the 21st Century, 99% of humans agreed with this reality. But today’s popular culture – i.e., all of the entertainment industry, most of the news media and social media, the public educational system, and a large portion of big businesses’ marketing – decided to make a 180-degrees turn in recent years and reject reality.

With their delusions and lies, society can’t help but hold a negative reaction against Catholicism and traditional faiths for holding an objective, long-standing position about human sexuality. It’s possible that there will be a time to come (that might frighteningly be in the not too distant future) when the traditional Catholic stance on sexuality will be considered illegal. Right now our stances opposing homosexual acts, so-called gay marriage, and so-called transgenderism are already considered heartless and intolerant by society. Laws to make these views punishable by fines or imprisonment could be the next step. It is distressing that many these days believe the Catholic Church forces an antiquated view of sexuality on its members, when in actuality, the Church is simply working to provide clarity about the truth of the human person which God created, and which Jesus confirmed when He said:

“Have you not read that the one who made them at the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let no one separate.” (Matthew 19:3-7)

A lukewarm or misguided Christian who goes along with the invention of so-called transgenderism is basically saying that when Jesus affirmed God created males and females, Jesus was wrong. Think about that… Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, but He was wrong when it came to sexual facts and explaining His Father’s creations! If a Christian doesn’t adhere oneself to the eternal truths, but instead goes with the passing fads, it shouldn’t be surprising you will not see that person ending up in heaven after death. As the venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen once insisted:

“Marry the spirit of the age and you become a widow in the next.”

The claim to “be transgender” or the desire to seek “transition” rests on a mistaken view of the human person, rejects the body as a gift from God, and leads to grave spiritual, physical. and psychological harm. That is why as parents and teachers who are influencing and informing children, it is vital to be counter-cultural when addressing gender theory and to stress that it is a disorder and is an untrue ideology. If you don’t stand firm and speak up, too many kids will just go along with what today’s culture is falsely and dangerously teaching them.

Trust our omniscient and almighty creator God, and know that a child’s ultimate happiness will come when he or she accepts the body as God’s gift and discovers his or her true identity is as a child of God.