Don’t Say ‘Transgender’

The culture has become so debased in recent years that nowadays if we hear the words “trans” or “transgender” we are all supposed do one of three things: (1) keep silent; (2) say we don’t agree with people “transitioning” but if they’re not hurting me they should do what they want; or to be most politically correct, (3) endorse the lie it represents by cheering on those who are “living their truth” by choosing to “trans.” What is not apparently allowed is a fourth option: (4) unashamedly refuse to go along with this harmful and delusion ideology.

This fourth, counter-cultural option is performed by proclaiming the truth that there is no such thing as a “transgender” person, that it is child abuse for parents and/or doctors to allow a child to have their body mutilated in an attempt to pretend to be a different sex, and that a person of any age who thinks they can “transition” from one sex to the other sex is both living a fantasy and rejecting God’s creative order. 

The whole concept of someone “transitioning” genders or sexes is a made-up act that is in the same category as an emaciated girl believing she is fat but in reality she suffers from anorexia. This girl is denying factuality and believing in a delusion. Parents who play into her delusion of being fat – just as parents who play into their kid’s delusion of being “in the wrong gender” – are making it worse. Anorexic and gender dysphoric people are suffering from mental illnesses of having an intense dissatisfaction with their bodies. Just like an underweight anorexic patient who sees herself as obese should not be treated with liposuction and diet pills, so too an unbalanced, irrational patient who sees himself or herself as in the wrong body should not be treated with sex organ mutilation and hormone shots. Furthermore, just as a mom and dad wouldn’t call their daughter struggling with anorexia as “overweight,” parents should not call their son “she” or their daughter “he” if the child is struggling with identity. 

The irrational beliefs of people suffering from a psychiatric illness of anorexia or gender dysphoria need our compassion, but not our enabling. Compassion does not mean to agree with a so-called transgendered person who denies God creates only two sexes 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. One provides compassionate help to so-called transgender persons by trying to get them to accept their body as God’s gift and valuing the femininity or masculinity of the sex in which God created them. 

Out of fear of being labeled a hater, too many good Christians are committing the sin of omission when they don’t speak up to say, “So-called transgenderism is both false and wrong, and we are not going to go along with it!” One might be called unchristian by the culture for not accepting a confused person’s “truth” and instead for expressing abhorrence at how the lie of “transgenderism” is harming people, but deep down a follower of Jesus knows that Christianity means exhibiting charity that is grounded in the truth.  

In both cases of anorexia and gender dysphoria, society contributed to the rapid growing of these delusional thoughts. The entertainment industry highlights extremely thin models and social media sites encourage youth who are confused during prepubescent years and puberty to consider perhaps they are so-called trans and so by “changing their gender” they will find the solution for improving their chaotic and complicated adolescence. Throughout history, due to raging hormones and attempts to understand their lives, preteens and teens have sought affirmation, identity, and attention. In our current culture, these children 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 the cool and rad thing for kids to announce they’re different genders than the ones God gave them and to inform people of their new names and opposite pronouns to be called. 

It was a few years ago that we heard the story of Will Thomas, a male college student who was allowed to not only swim on the school’s female swim team but also use the woman’s locker room after he announced he had so-called transitioned into a woman and was now “Lia Thomas.” He was treated as a woman not just by the NCAA but by most of the media, who referred to him as a “her” and celebrated “her” winning championship swim meets over women. Then this year, similar stories transpired at the Olympic Games, when two men boxed against females and won women boxing medals, all because they believed they could change their sex from male to female and again the media, and the heads of the Olympics, embraced this falsehood as well. 

Unfortunately, it is not just the woke, politically-correct organizations and the media assenting that a man can change into a woman (or vice-versa) and nonchalantly using female pronouns when referring to mentally-confused men. It appears these days that hordes of average Americans also accept the idea of assuming humans can change their sex because so many are not willing to call the reports that a “trans” person “transitioned” nonsensical rubbish and are all too willing to go along with the lying by using so-called preferred pronouns.

People need to speak the truth, and this means not mainstreaming perverted, invented words like “transgender” and not agreeing to the lie that one can “transition.” By accepting secular society’s terminology, one is aiding in the cultural spreading of this depravity. Honest, moral people need to resist the temptation to go along/to get along by not even uttering this deceitful terminology. But if used, one should always add the clarifier ‘so-called’ or insert quotation marks around made-up words like “trans” and “transition” so to signify that these are faux terms, just as we should around other invented language such as “gay marriage” or “sex assigned at birth.”

If you really want to help an unbalanced person who thinks he is a she, or vice-versa, the correct term is to call that person “gender dysphoric” – if he or she is truly suffering from mental illness – or “struggling for acceptance/friendship” – if it’s not a psychiatric issue as much as it is a phase a youngster is going through during puberty. Don’t label the person “transgender” as it just lends credibility to the phoniness.

And in the case of the male swimmer in the women’s locker room or the male boxer physically abusing women in the ring, we shouldn’t call those types of guys “trans,” but rather we should choose from two label choices: 

1) “a predatory man who calls himself a woman so he can have easier access to his future victims”

2) “a mediocre male athlete who wants an easy path to winning competitions that he couldn’t win against male competitors”

Many people wonder when this “trans” trend will end. It will end when enough people start being honest and refuse to play along with the 21^st century’s version of “The Emperor Has No Clothes.” Even if currently the majority of Americans think transgender ideology to be nonsense, the apathy that is so prevalent in society causes most to not speak up but just try to ignore the “trans” activists. All that putting our heads in the sand does is enable the wickedness and misbeliefs to grow because the other side doesn’t simply sit back and see what happens like our side does. They are constantly active and incessantly indoctrinating, especially the youngest generation. They demand the world play along with their disorders and derangements. Our kids are getting propagandized by the corrupt media, immoral Hollywood, and godless educators that are on the other side. Children need to loudly hear from their parents and preachers our side of the argument – AKA the truth. 

If most adults are too manipulated or too intimidated to point out that “transgenderism” isn’t real, “gender identity” is a fake concept, and “sex change” is impossible, then the so-called transgender movement will 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 they are purposely trying to snare and corrupt our little ones.

Not only is it disheartening that so many preteens and teenagers are being allured to consider “transgenderism” when they are simply undergoing typical adolescent confusion and stress, but it is also downright evil that ultra-progressive parents and immoral medical professionals are enabling youngsters to believe their dysphoria is real, to the point of drugging and/or mutilating them. 

If you refuse to go along with the lies, if you firmly insist “trans” 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, wear it as a badge of honor when you are harassed and called a “transphobe” – which by the way, is another made-up word. Stating the counter-cultural truth while at the same time not uttering fabricated falsehoods is the only way the immorality of society will slow its speedy progression and not impact our children as severely as it has been in recent years.