I can't say I like the religious tone of this article, especially since the religion mentioned is such a bad one. Don't get me wrong -- I am deeply religious. But I don't look back 2000 years for my guidance. We have guidance today which is much more rational than the Bible.
We are learning more about God and the afterlife from near-death experiences (NDEs) and a few other metaphysical sources. Reincarnation is a reality. Some people choose the wrong sex for themselves before they go through the forgetting process and become reborn as new babies. Many people come back from their NDEs believing they have spoken with God. Even those people who don't believe that the "being of light" who guides them during their NDE is God, they still absorb the God concept while they are in the afterlife. Huge numbers of them become aware that everything in existence is part of a great Whole, and that Whole is God.
A person who chooses the wrong sex before birth may become transgender. I used to think that was the cause of most of these cases, but now I don't. Being trans has become a fad. Young people who become trans because it's a fad have made the choice for the wrong reason, and learning the importance of being honest with yourself becomes the spiritual lesson for this lifetime. Also, as the article says, large numbers of them are autistic. Their lives aren't working well, and switching to the opposite sex seems a "clean" solution. But the distance between being a not very good member of your own sex, and being a convincing member of the opposite sex, is much much longer than any of them realize. If you are already a boy, your chances of becoming a happy man are much greater than becoming a convincing woman, convincing both to yourself and to others.
Some people become trans to spite their parents, or for the same obsessive reasons that people join cults.
I suspect that trans people all go through the same disillusionment process in the end. At a certain point they realize that the changes to themselves are all cosmetic, and essentially that they failed. They then have two or three unappetizing options: Accept yourself as an imperfect person of the opposite sex, having achieved only the appearance that you sought (and none of the substance), or commit suicide.
The number of reincarnational lives that people live can be just a few, or can run into the hundreds or possibly thousands. I believe that most people who "transition" have made a mistake, and then the lesson of that life becomes the spiritual growth he or she achieved from dealing with the mistake. The point is, we are all immortal, and reality is set up to give us an infinite number of new beginnings. Once we learn what we can from being a human being, we are given a place in one of the heavens in the afterlife that Swedenborg described.
Oh boy this really hit me...so much of it applies to what my situation was, son on the spectrum, gamer, intelligent, and after some things he mentioned over the years perhaps abused or at the least subjected to sexual things that a young person should never be subjected to...even if only online. It changes them. He turned to self harm. It's a long story but want to say to keep praying because God delivered my son about a year ago now. Every story is so different. I wanted to share a video he created on YouTube he called "Burn in hell Jezebel". I think it tells a lot and interestingly it seems to come up in a simple google search (2:30 long posted 10/27/24). He created several others that I have listened to over and over as well trying to figure out what goes on/went on in his head because these "autistic" kids seem to have a totally different mindset. God has big plans for all of them....I truly believe it. The world appears to be a mess right now but God is at work and we are going to see some really awesome days ahead!
Beautifully written. I do pray for lost boys and girls and very much so for their parents several of whom are friends. Our ministry in Spokane WA has an arm just for prayer for these lost children and has done so for 10 years. I'm sure there are many groups now doing the same through churches or groups of friends. The heart is deceitful above all else says the prophet Jeremiah. So true. Only the grace and power of God can make the scales fall away. On of my family members was a ghostwriter for Charlie early on in TPUSA. She says in all the meetings by Zoom with him and his team they were always a kind and gracious group, a class act. From her slightly insider perspective as gracious as in public.
As most of you know, I disliked Charlie Kirk. That being said, I do not believe in political violence of any sort, and it’s good that he was trying to help these boys. (We know his opinion of girls.)
The problem with these kids saying they were abused (not to trivialize true abuse) is that the internet trolls have convinced them that ANY attempt to parent is abuse. Everything & anything is to be accepted & any attempt to guide or teach or invoke consequences is abuse. They must be 100% accepted no matter what they do. And we now have a generation of snowflakes that speak in such evil tongues to their parents. Our child had so many advantages but she insists she is a disabled victim & should have no expectations placed on her. None of this is an accident.
Thank you for writing this. Blessings and love to you and all parents of the lost boys.
I want to share that my family understands the pain and terror that the lost boy will become violent and hurt others. It is a horrible fear to live with on a daily basis. From a different era, long before trans, my brother was on the spectrum before that was even a phrase. He was brilliant and odd and embraced life as a young person. But he had a severe delusional mental illness that, beginning in his late 20s, isolated him from almost everyone, everyone except my mother. He died a few months ago, at the age of 68. We celebrated and remembered the good parts of his life, I wrote a song for him to process my own shattered heart. But for my 97-year-old mother, her biggest gratitude that I heard her repeat is that he had never hurt anyone. She prayed daily that he would never hurt anyone. She had to live with that fear in her heart for decades, as deluded and brilliant young men like this can hurt others. While that is all very sad, I can also share that my mother is doing fine, she did not let the burden of my brother's mental illness destroy her. And she lived through this pain when there was virtually nobody to understand. Boys like my brother were rare in the 1960s. I am so glad PITT is here. Keep your connections with each other, and keep trying to understand this phenomenon of the lost boys. It seems there is much more that is not known.
My grown son who identified as gay since puberty now identifies as transgender at 36 years old. He was raised mostly by a mother with narcissistic personality disorder. He lived with us for a while, but we were able to help him find work and to move out on his own two years ago. Unfortunately, he has lost his job. He has been looking for work for 3-4 weeks now. My wife says he cannot move in with us again because it was so traumatic the last time. We paid his rent once and buy him groceries. As a Christian I cannot turn my back on him but we can't keep paying his bills, but he will probably be homeless if we don't, has anyone else been else through this. Any advice is welcome. Sorry I changed my handle to remain more anonymous
I think there are probably a lot of us in at least somewhat similar positions. Our son is 27 and still in our basement. It is so hard for them to find work. Praise God he was delivered from the whole transgender thing and is much more pleasant to be around, but we still pay for everything including his bad habits. We keep doing it because we are grateful he is no longer harming himself (not only from the medications but he was also cutting himself). My belief now though is that God is about to deliver us all from this evil. I had someone reference in a podcast Habakkuk 1:5 and 2:14. I am believing it. I have even heard some talk of the "reverse rapture" where the wicked are removed. My son actually mentioned that to me right when he was coming out of this whole mess...that I think he had heard someone talk about it probably on TikTok. We will see. All we can do is do what we can and keep praying! I think there is a LOT more to this Charlie Kirk incident than we know too.
I agree, we must all pray for these lost boys and girls. Charlie Kirk addressed the trans-gender ideology lies head-to-head with thousands of college students and he asked the questions over and over again "What is a woman?" These lost boys and girls could not give him a correct answer. Charlie was not afraid to stand up to the cult lies, he spoke the truth, and he tried to make a difference. I personally have not spoken to a trans-identified person about the truth, for this I am guilty, but I do pray and will pray even harder. We need God's help. These lost boys and girls need God's help. The fact that Ericka Kirk could tell the world that she forgave Charlie's killer was so incredibly moving, I cried. I need to also forgive this young man who killed Charlie. I need to feel more empathy and compassion towards these lost boys and girls. These drugs that they are taking to become the opposite sex is wreaking havoc on their entire bodies including their minds. "Father forgive them for they know not what they do," is a powerful scripture verse but it is also the truth.
I hope ordinary people will finally understand the danger of this ideology, not only to the kids and families involved, but to society at large. When you affirm a delusion and prescribe drugs that are the opposite of what the patient's natural state expects, nothing good can result. These doctors are all culpable for making our society more dangerous for everyone.
Thank you for your post. You describe my 21 yo son to a T. No gender disphorea ever, but just a brilliant autistic artist who has been taking the hormones and is biting at the bit to do surgery, and is refusing to read about desisters and those having no resources to clean up what they messed up horribly.
I can't say I like the religious tone of this article, especially since the religion mentioned is such a bad one. Don't get me wrong -- I am deeply religious. But I don't look back 2000 years for my guidance. We have guidance today which is much more rational than the Bible.
We are learning more about God and the afterlife from near-death experiences (NDEs) and a few other metaphysical sources. Reincarnation is a reality. Some people choose the wrong sex for themselves before they go through the forgetting process and become reborn as new babies. Many people come back from their NDEs believing they have spoken with God. Even those people who don't believe that the "being of light" who guides them during their NDE is God, they still absorb the God concept while they are in the afterlife. Huge numbers of them become aware that everything in existence is part of a great Whole, and that Whole is God.
A person who chooses the wrong sex before birth may become transgender. I used to think that was the cause of most of these cases, but now I don't. Being trans has become a fad. Young people who become trans because it's a fad have made the choice for the wrong reason, and learning the importance of being honest with yourself becomes the spiritual lesson for this lifetime. Also, as the article says, large numbers of them are autistic. Their lives aren't working well, and switching to the opposite sex seems a "clean" solution. But the distance between being a not very good member of your own sex, and being a convincing member of the opposite sex, is much much longer than any of them realize. If you are already a boy, your chances of becoming a happy man are much greater than becoming a convincing woman, convincing both to yourself and to others.
Some people become trans to spite their parents, or for the same obsessive reasons that people join cults.
I suspect that trans people all go through the same disillusionment process in the end. At a certain point they realize that the changes to themselves are all cosmetic, and essentially that they failed. They then have two or three unappetizing options: Accept yourself as an imperfect person of the opposite sex, having achieved only the appearance that you sought (and none of the substance), or commit suicide.
The number of reincarnational lives that people live can be just a few, or can run into the hundreds or possibly thousands. I believe that most people who "transition" have made a mistake, and then the lesson of that life becomes the spiritual growth he or she achieved from dealing with the mistake. The point is, we are all immortal, and reality is set up to give us an infinite number of new beginnings. Once we learn what we can from being a human being, we are given a place in one of the heavens in the afterlife that Swedenborg described.
Oh boy this really hit me...so much of it applies to what my situation was, son on the spectrum, gamer, intelligent, and after some things he mentioned over the years perhaps abused or at the least subjected to sexual things that a young person should never be subjected to...even if only online. It changes them. He turned to self harm. It's a long story but want to say to keep praying because God delivered my son about a year ago now. Every story is so different. I wanted to share a video he created on YouTube he called "Burn in hell Jezebel". I think it tells a lot and interestingly it seems to come up in a simple google search (2:30 long posted 10/27/24). He created several others that I have listened to over and over as well trying to figure out what goes on/went on in his head because these "autistic" kids seem to have a totally different mindset. God has big plans for all of them....I truly believe it. The world appears to be a mess right now but God is at work and we are going to see some really awesome days ahead!
Praying daily for this madness to end.
Beautifully written. I do pray for lost boys and girls and very much so for their parents several of whom are friends. Our ministry in Spokane WA has an arm just for prayer for these lost children and has done so for 10 years. I'm sure there are many groups now doing the same through churches or groups of friends. The heart is deceitful above all else says the prophet Jeremiah. So true. Only the grace and power of God can make the scales fall away. On of my family members was a ghostwriter for Charlie early on in TPUSA. She says in all the meetings by Zoom with him and his team they were always a kind and gracious group, a class act. From her slightly insider perspective as gracious as in public.
As most of you know, I disliked Charlie Kirk. That being said, I do not believe in political violence of any sort, and it’s good that he was trying to help these boys. (We know his opinion of girls.)
The problem with these kids saying they were abused (not to trivialize true abuse) is that the internet trolls have convinced them that ANY attempt to parent is abuse. Everything & anything is to be accepted & any attempt to guide or teach or invoke consequences is abuse. They must be 100% accepted no matter what they do. And we now have a generation of snowflakes that speak in such evil tongues to their parents. Our child had so many advantages but she insists she is a disabled victim & should have no expectations placed on her. None of this is an accident.
I hear you on that.
And then there are kids who I believe have been sexually abused by other "kids" but do not see it. Everything is "normal", right?
Thank you for writing this truth !!
Thank you for this beautiful essay.
Thank you for writing this. Blessings and love to you and all parents of the lost boys.
I want to share that my family understands the pain and terror that the lost boy will become violent and hurt others. It is a horrible fear to live with on a daily basis. From a different era, long before trans, my brother was on the spectrum before that was even a phrase. He was brilliant and odd and embraced life as a young person. But he had a severe delusional mental illness that, beginning in his late 20s, isolated him from almost everyone, everyone except my mother. He died a few months ago, at the age of 68. We celebrated and remembered the good parts of his life, I wrote a song for him to process my own shattered heart. But for my 97-year-old mother, her biggest gratitude that I heard her repeat is that he had never hurt anyone. She prayed daily that he would never hurt anyone. She had to live with that fear in her heart for decades, as deluded and brilliant young men like this can hurt others. While that is all very sad, I can also share that my mother is doing fine, she did not let the burden of my brother's mental illness destroy her. And she lived through this pain when there was virtually nobody to understand. Boys like my brother were rare in the 1960s. I am so glad PITT is here. Keep your connections with each other, and keep trying to understand this phenomenon of the lost boys. It seems there is much more that is not known.
My grown son who identified as gay since puberty now identifies as transgender at 36 years old. He was raised mostly by a mother with narcissistic personality disorder. He lived with us for a while, but we were able to help him find work and to move out on his own two years ago. Unfortunately, he has lost his job. He has been looking for work for 3-4 weeks now. My wife says he cannot move in with us again because it was so traumatic the last time. We paid his rent once and buy him groceries. As a Christian I cannot turn my back on him but we can't keep paying his bills, but he will probably be homeless if we don't, has anyone else been else through this. Any advice is welcome. Sorry I changed my handle to remain more anonymous
I think there are probably a lot of us in at least somewhat similar positions. Our son is 27 and still in our basement. It is so hard for them to find work. Praise God he was delivered from the whole transgender thing and is much more pleasant to be around, but we still pay for everything including his bad habits. We keep doing it because we are grateful he is no longer harming himself (not only from the medications but he was also cutting himself). My belief now though is that God is about to deliver us all from this evil. I had someone reference in a podcast Habakkuk 1:5 and 2:14. I am believing it. I have even heard some talk of the "reverse rapture" where the wicked are removed. My son actually mentioned that to me right when he was coming out of this whole mess...that I think he had heard someone talk about it probably on TikTok. We will see. All we can do is do what we can and keep praying! I think there is a LOT more to this Charlie Kirk incident than we know too.
I agree, we must all pray for these lost boys and girls. Charlie Kirk addressed the trans-gender ideology lies head-to-head with thousands of college students and he asked the questions over and over again "What is a woman?" These lost boys and girls could not give him a correct answer. Charlie was not afraid to stand up to the cult lies, he spoke the truth, and he tried to make a difference. I personally have not spoken to a trans-identified person about the truth, for this I am guilty, but I do pray and will pray even harder. We need God's help. These lost boys and girls need God's help. The fact that Ericka Kirk could tell the world that she forgave Charlie's killer was so incredibly moving, I cried. I need to also forgive this young man who killed Charlie. I need to feel more empathy and compassion towards these lost boys and girls. These drugs that they are taking to become the opposite sex is wreaking havoc on their entire bodies including their minds. "Father forgive them for they know not what they do," is a powerful scripture verse but it is also the truth.
I hope ordinary people will finally understand the danger of this ideology, not only to the kids and families involved, but to society at large. When you affirm a delusion and prescribe drugs that are the opposite of what the patient's natural state expects, nothing good can result. These doctors are all culpable for making our society more dangerous for everyone.
Thank you for your post. You describe my 21 yo son to a T. No gender disphorea ever, but just a brilliant autistic artist who has been taking the hormones and is biting at the bit to do surgery, and is refusing to read about desisters and those having no resources to clean up what they messed up horribly.
Beautifully put. Thank you💜🙏💚
Thanks for sharing. My feelings were put into words. 🙏🥵
Thank you for writing this. Our precious lost boys. We need everyone praying for them.