This is good. My child isn’t fully captured and I’m working hard to complete the extraction. I acknowledge the friend group and online presence of those who identify as transgender. My child has great concern and compassion for others, perhaps why he landed in this identity. I’m including that in my approach that I have concerns for them as well. In hope he will join to protect them in the truth as well as what I am trying to do for him. But there it lies, it must be told as one big lie and that is the problem and difficult to do. And why the detransitioners are ousted and don’t believe a thing. Aka a cult.
No one is "transgender." This was a movement first of heterosexual men wanting access to Lesbians against our will, invading our community, taking over our hard-won spaces and organizations, re-writing our history, and, for the few who say no, sending us rape and death threats. It's horrific to see them add themselves so the media refers to "LGBTQIA" etc. when the T are doing vile and repulsive things that we want no part of, ever.
Few even know about the murders of women by men claiming to be "trans."
Meanwhile, vulnerable children are conned and drawn into this dangerous, harmful horror....
I agree that transgender is separate from sexual preference. That's one reason I don't understand why it's taught in schools as part of sexuality. They piggybacked on all the work that gay and lesbian people did to gain acceptance.
I think this is a lovely piece whether one has a religious perspective or not - although I am skeptical that the Trans movement was ever about a "plea for understanding and rights". I think it just masqueraded under that guise.
But, Dr. Stephen Levine would agree that the cries are cries of pain. I took these notes from a conversation he had, reflecting on his 40 Years in Gender Medicine:
- How "Gender" isn't different from any other manner where people are expressing pain
- Trans-id falls under "barriers to being loved". As an example he discussed a husband and wife he saw where the husband overcame a "need" for using his and her boxing gloves prior to sex once he was helped to understand/find where the desire came from.
- There is self hatred/masochism/punishing oneself in transvestism.
- The 2% regret rate for "gender" medicalization is false.
- You amputate your breasts and maybe you no longer have "breast dysphoria" but you still have "gender dysphoria". Think about that one! It doesn't ever end.
- Even those who insist they are "happy - this is who they are" when asked about various measures of how life is going - it's not good post medicalization.
- When Stephen Levine goes to conferences on schizophrenia, there are no schizophrenics in the audience booing as with "gender" sufferers!
Dr. Stephen Levine Reflects on 40 Years in Gender Medicine."
I told my trans identified daughter: real love lives in truth. False love feeds on lies. Sadly, they have been groomed to believe the opposite is true. But I will not relent, and I will never lie to her. I believe that someday the truth will and must prevail over these kids and wake them from the spell they are under.
I was doomscrolling on Instagram today (I'm not proud) and a post popped up by a trans identified man, saying how happy he is after 7 years of HRT. The post had a load of hashtags and one of them was #DeathBeforeDetransition, and I couldn't help but comment that there are lots of impressionable young people who could see that and take it seriously, and that he shouldn't be promoting such extreme ideology.
I don't know how representative of trans people he was but I found it pretty unnerving and unpleasant
I am worried that young people caught up in trans are doubling down--due to the pushback (Trump policies). They feel under attack. It's a very politicalized identity. I 100% support no medicalization for young people, single sex spaces & sports, I am worried for those who are developing a persecution complex.
The more you sacrifice for something the more it will take to admit you were in error.
And the trans route -- what do you give up? Your birth sex. Your ability to blend into a crowd as just another man or just another woman. Your reproductive capability. Your secondary sex characteristics. Your childhood. Your birth certificate. Your early family memories.
If you place those on the sacrificial altar -- shouldn't you expect a payout? Would becoming a FULL FLEDGED MEMBER of the opposite sex be sufficient for such a sacrifice? And you're not getting that -- you'll look like an off-kilter version of the opposite sex -- at best. Voice odd, bone structure odd, motions odd, face of shape is odd, mannerisms are odd, can no longer pass in the background, and you gave up the ability to procreate, perhaps when you were too young to realize what you were giving up.
Admitting a mistake of that magnitude would take the moral character of a saint.
There's some, but not that many.
So they must fight tooth and nail against such a revelation. They cling to the delusion because it's all that they have. Without it, they turned their world upside down for.... for what? Esau getting a bowl of lentils for the sale of his birth right received infinitely more than these people are getting with their sacrfice.
Sadly, I think everyone who has undergone medicalisation is aware of all those things, which is why they reinforce each other so aggressively on social media and why they REALLY hate anyone who won't play along and points out the obvious
Yes, and you also get a new crop of very angry people. Think about the irreversibility of it!
Let's say someone tries being gay. Five years, ten years. Then they say "You know what? I'm not enjoying this anymore. I want to try a heterosexual relationship."
Aside from social acquaintances and time did they lose anything? Not really. They can adjust.
Someone tries being trans for five or ten years. "This isn't working for me, I want to go back." Can they?
Only if they didn't do anything to permanently alter their body. If it was just an elaborate game of dress up, they can. If they took hormones, surgeries, etc, they cannot. You cannot regrow lost parts.
So you will have a life long anger there.
Further -- on the topic of the bitterness of a rejected sacrifice -- you know where we first read about that in the Bible?
Cain and Abel.
Abel's sacrifice worked. Cain's didn't.
Cain was pretty upset. So upset that he became history's first murderer.
When you have these young people who made sacrifices that got them nothing --- "I had my gonads removed but I'm still not a real woman." "I had my breasts removed, but I'm still not a real man." "I went $200,000 into college debt and I can't even get a job at Starbucks."
Well, you got a nice little mob of angry street thugs. There's more than a few of them staffing Antifa today.
And 80 years ago, Germany suffered under the reign of a particularly frustrated Art major.
The guy who posted on Instagram was an adult before he transitioned but yes you're right. It doesn't help that people are so polarised over Trump - people who hate Trump will object to anything he does, even if it's something sensible like restricting gender medicalisation. It's tragic that those young people who have been told they need that 'care' will feel persecuted when they are denied it, rather than realise they were tricked into wanting it
Some other trans (or possibly just ugly) person chimed in to tell me I should kill myself. These people throw talk of suicide around like it's a toy, they're disgusting
I was reading an article by Chris Stefanick, the author of Real Life Catholic on his birthday. He mentioned the chances of each and every one of us actually existing and being able to read this right now is 1 in 400 trillion! A Baby girl is born with 2,000,000 eggs and a man produces 200,000 sperm a day. And that’s just one given day. If your relatives hadn’t come together that day…no you.
And what if, 10 generations ago, your ancestors hadn’t met. Again, no you. The chances are not just luck you were loved into existence by God!
Thank you for your thoughts and inclusion of God in the grand plan of everything that exists including everyone reading this. It is my opinion that that the reason there is so much confusion and evil in the world is due to the denial of God. We who have faith but haven’t not seen him are the truly lucky ones.
Jesus said to him, "Because you have seen Me, have you believed? Blessed are they who did not see, and yet believed."
I so agree! America in particular has gone so downhill once they started eliminating God from everything...and there is the saying "As goes America so goes the world". You reminded me again of lyrics to a video my son created and sang about a year ago now. You might appreciate it...as one of the lines is "children of the stars, blown into being by the breath of a loving God". He called it "burn in hell jezebel". It usually comes up in a simple search but his YouTube is "Minoa" and it was posted 10/27/24 not too long after God rescued him from many of the things he was doing to himself. He still has some bad habits but I believe that God is about ready to move His hand and wipe out the wicked beings who have done this to our children and heal them from all of their "bad habits"!
The biologist Richard Dawkins makes a similar point in his writings, but not from a religious perspective. In fact, he goes even farther back into evolutionary development, pointing out the lucky survival of humble mammals when the dinasaurs seemed dominant.
I prefer the word of God not the word of man. A biologist is strictly that a person relying on empirical evidence not the truth of God. By the way who created genes? Did thy just appear out of nowhere? If empirical evidence is required then how do you explain love … is there any empirical evidence for that?
I often pray for the children who have fallen into this pit, and for their parents whose suffering even surpasses that of the children because of our bottomless love for them. One of my kids, now in her 20's got a smartphone way too early. We were ignorant of the power it possessed back then. She went through a time of believing she was ADHD and needed medication. After all, we did a poll in our suburban, filled with kids I was driving to an event. Every single one of them was on ADHD meds. Then her obsession became anxiety and depression, and again, she needed meds for that. I appeased her and took her to therapists and even had her evaluated (major $$), and she was never satisfied because no one told her what she wanted to hear. and I also informed her that even if she were to be diagnosed that I would not give her meds under any circumstances, because the side effect could be--anxiety and depression! I told her that we would see a nutritionist, and get her on a weekly workout program and then we would determine the course. Predictably, she declined. She moved from anxiety and depression to dissociative disorder. I did my research and found there was about a one in a million chance and that some psychologists didn't even believe it was real, so she explored more. Then she worried about turrets, because there was an online group of mainly girls who had it (really!!) and would post themselves. I could not use the word "puberty" because that sent her into a spiral of anger, but I stayed up till all hours letting her vent and saying little. I learned to say little after being burned and realizing she needed the rant. She graduated during covid (the nightmare that made this all explode) with all D's after bringing them up from F's. I was happy she graduated, but she was still adrift. I spent the years in prayer for her, and I asked all praying friends to add her to their prayers. She is now a thriving beautiful woman, and I am thankful for who she is, but I am not deluded by thinking I know the way. It was the grace of God. And that grace does not always mean there won't be pain and consequences. This trans phenomenon is my number one cause, because it's our children who are at stake. I pray for each one of you often, because i know it could be me and it could be her
Thank you for your inspirational story. My daughter has been on a very similar path to yours, except that she is 20 and she has medicalized. Very addicted to the idea of having many disorders, being on medications, and being trans. I hope and pray daily that she will understand that her parents are the only ones who love her enough to tell her the truth, and that she comes to accept herself for the brilliant, beautiful woman I know is still inside of her. Happy for you, I love reading these stories.
same, my daughter now 31, bearded and breastless, simply so sad, soul crushing, I pray she returns to sanity as I know one day she will and that it happens before I am dead.
there's nothing feminist about reducing women to their breasts. it's disgusting and perverted. if we want to win this fight, we have to accept that some women might be happier with a breast reduction, but that doesn't make them the opposite sex
This is good. My child isn’t fully captured and I’m working hard to complete the extraction. I acknowledge the friend group and online presence of those who identify as transgender. My child has great concern and compassion for others, perhaps why he landed in this identity. I’m including that in my approach that I have concerns for them as well. In hope he will join to protect them in the truth as well as what I am trying to do for him. But there it lies, it must be told as one big lie and that is the problem and difficult to do. And why the detransitioners are ousted and don’t believe a thing. Aka a cult.
"I wish someone had told me the truth", parents need to be the one that tells them the truth, anything else is betrayal.
Thank you.
This one is awesome and hits hard because it is full of so much Truth.
No one is "transgender." This was a movement first of heterosexual men wanting access to Lesbians against our will, invading our community, taking over our hard-won spaces and organizations, re-writing our history, and, for the few who say no, sending us rape and death threats. It's horrific to see them add themselves so the media refers to "LGBTQIA" etc. when the T are doing vile and repulsive things that we want no part of, ever.
Few even know about the murders of women by men claiming to be "trans."
Meanwhile, vulnerable children are conned and drawn into this dangerous, harmful horror....
I agree that transgender is separate from sexual preference. That's one reason I don't understand why it's taught in schools as part of sexuality. They piggybacked on all the work that gay and lesbian people did to gain acceptance.
I think this is a lovely piece whether one has a religious perspective or not - although I am skeptical that the Trans movement was ever about a "plea for understanding and rights". I think it just masqueraded under that guise.
But, Dr. Stephen Levine would agree that the cries are cries of pain. I took these notes from a conversation he had, reflecting on his 40 Years in Gender Medicine:
- How "Gender" isn't different from any other manner where people are expressing pain
- Trans-id falls under "barriers to being loved". As an example he discussed a husband and wife he saw where the husband overcame a "need" for using his and her boxing gloves prior to sex once he was helped to understand/find where the desire came from.
- There is self hatred/masochism/punishing oneself in transvestism.
- The 2% regret rate for "gender" medicalization is false.
- You amputate your breasts and maybe you no longer have "breast dysphoria" but you still have "gender dysphoria". Think about that one! It doesn't ever end.
- Even those who insist they are "happy - this is who they are" when asked about various measures of how life is going - it's not good post medicalization.
- When Stephen Levine goes to conferences on schizophrenia, there are no schizophrenics in the audience booing as with "gender" sufferers!
Dr. Stephen Levine Reflects on 40 Years in Gender Medicine."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoNMzdZHQCs
yes, always one more surgery away from fitting into one's opposite sex...as if...
I told my trans identified daughter: real love lives in truth. False love feeds on lies. Sadly, they have been groomed to believe the opposite is true. But I will not relent, and I will never lie to her. I believe that someday the truth will and must prevail over these kids and wake them from the spell they are under.
Beautiful 😢
I was doomscrolling on Instagram today (I'm not proud) and a post popped up by a trans identified man, saying how happy he is after 7 years of HRT. The post had a load of hashtags and one of them was #DeathBeforeDetransition, and I couldn't help but comment that there are lots of impressionable young people who could see that and take it seriously, and that he shouldn't be promoting such extreme ideology.
I don't know how representative of trans people he was but I found it pretty unnerving and unpleasant
I am worried that young people caught up in trans are doubling down--due to the pushback (Trump policies). They feel under attack. It's a very politicalized identity. I 100% support no medicalization for young people, single sex spaces & sports, I am worried for those who are developing a persecution complex.
I don't think that's it.
The more you sacrifice for something the more it will take to admit you were in error.
And the trans route -- what do you give up? Your birth sex. Your ability to blend into a crowd as just another man or just another woman. Your reproductive capability. Your secondary sex characteristics. Your childhood. Your birth certificate. Your early family memories.
If you place those on the sacrificial altar -- shouldn't you expect a payout? Would becoming a FULL FLEDGED MEMBER of the opposite sex be sufficient for such a sacrifice? And you're not getting that -- you'll look like an off-kilter version of the opposite sex -- at best. Voice odd, bone structure odd, motions odd, face of shape is odd, mannerisms are odd, can no longer pass in the background, and you gave up the ability to procreate, perhaps when you were too young to realize what you were giving up.
Admitting a mistake of that magnitude would take the moral character of a saint.
There's some, but not that many.
So they must fight tooth and nail against such a revelation. They cling to the delusion because it's all that they have. Without it, they turned their world upside down for.... for what? Esau getting a bowl of lentils for the sale of his birth right received infinitely more than these people are getting with their sacrfice.
Sadly, I think everyone who has undergone medicalisation is aware of all those things, which is why they reinforce each other so aggressively on social media and why they REALLY hate anyone who won't play along and points out the obvious
Yes, and you also get a new crop of very angry people. Think about the irreversibility of it!
Let's say someone tries being gay. Five years, ten years. Then they say "You know what? I'm not enjoying this anymore. I want to try a heterosexual relationship."
Aside from social acquaintances and time did they lose anything? Not really. They can adjust.
Someone tries being trans for five or ten years. "This isn't working for me, I want to go back." Can they?
Only if they didn't do anything to permanently alter their body. If it was just an elaborate game of dress up, they can. If they took hormones, surgeries, etc, they cannot. You cannot regrow lost parts.
So you will have a life long anger there.
Further -- on the topic of the bitterness of a rejected sacrifice -- you know where we first read about that in the Bible?
Cain and Abel.
Abel's sacrifice worked. Cain's didn't.
Cain was pretty upset. So upset that he became history's first murderer.
When you have these young people who made sacrifices that got them nothing --- "I had my gonads removed but I'm still not a real woman." "I had my breasts removed, but I'm still not a real man." "I went $200,000 into college debt and I can't even get a job at Starbucks."
Well, you got a nice little mob of angry street thugs. There's more than a few of them staffing Antifa today.
And 80 years ago, Germany suffered under the reign of a particularly frustrated Art major.
The guy who posted on Instagram was an adult before he transitioned but yes you're right. It doesn't help that people are so polarised over Trump - people who hate Trump will object to anything he does, even if it's something sensible like restricting gender medicalisation. It's tragic that those young people who have been told they need that 'care' will feel persecuted when they are denied it, rather than realise they were tricked into wanting it
And he just replied with a friendly "😁🌈stfu🌈😄"
definitely not the sign of a happy individual. And you're right, that is extremely suggestive for young people.
Some other trans (or possibly just ugly) person chimed in to tell me I should kill myself. These people throw talk of suicide around like it's a toy, they're disgusting
Thanks! This is so well said!❤️
Amen! May we love those who are lost well, but also speak the Truth, when God calls us to do so.
I was reading an article by Chris Stefanick, the author of Real Life Catholic on his birthday. He mentioned the chances of each and every one of us actually existing and being able to read this right now is 1 in 400 trillion! A Baby girl is born with 2,000,000 eggs and a man produces 200,000 sperm a day. And that’s just one given day. If your relatives hadn’t come together that day…no you.
And what if, 10 generations ago, your ancestors hadn’t met. Again, no you. The chances are not just luck you were loved into existence by God!
Thank you for your thoughts and inclusion of God in the grand plan of everything that exists including everyone reading this. It is my opinion that that the reason there is so much confusion and evil in the world is due to the denial of God. We who have faith but haven’t not seen him are the truly lucky ones.
Jesus said to him, "Because you have seen Me, have you believed? Blessed are they who did not see, and yet believed."
John 20:29(NASB)
I so agree! America in particular has gone so downhill once they started eliminating God from everything...and there is the saying "As goes America so goes the world". You reminded me again of lyrics to a video my son created and sang about a year ago now. You might appreciate it...as one of the lines is "children of the stars, blown into being by the breath of a loving God". He called it "burn in hell jezebel". It usually comes up in a simple search but his YouTube is "Minoa" and it was posted 10/27/24 not too long after God rescued him from many of the things he was doing to himself. He still has some bad habits but I believe that God is about ready to move His hand and wipe out the wicked beings who have done this to our children and heal them from all of their "bad habits"!
The biologist Richard Dawkins makes a similar point in his writings, but not from a religious perspective. In fact, he goes even farther back into evolutionary development, pointing out the lucky survival of humble mammals when the dinasaurs seemed dominant.
I prefer the word of God not the word of man. A biologist is strictly that a person relying on empirical evidence not the truth of God. By the way who created genes? Did thy just appear out of nowhere? If empirical evidence is required then how do you explain love … is there any empirical evidence for that?
Agree... Praying, waiting and trying to speak truth in love 💕🙏
Heterosexual people can't exist either if man and woman is not defined. That's why the entire thing is anti human.
I often pray for the children who have fallen into this pit, and for their parents whose suffering even surpasses that of the children because of our bottomless love for them. One of my kids, now in her 20's got a smartphone way too early. We were ignorant of the power it possessed back then. She went through a time of believing she was ADHD and needed medication. After all, we did a poll in our suburban, filled with kids I was driving to an event. Every single one of them was on ADHD meds. Then her obsession became anxiety and depression, and again, she needed meds for that. I appeased her and took her to therapists and even had her evaluated (major $$), and she was never satisfied because no one told her what she wanted to hear. and I also informed her that even if she were to be diagnosed that I would not give her meds under any circumstances, because the side effect could be--anxiety and depression! I told her that we would see a nutritionist, and get her on a weekly workout program and then we would determine the course. Predictably, she declined. She moved from anxiety and depression to dissociative disorder. I did my research and found there was about a one in a million chance and that some psychologists didn't even believe it was real, so she explored more. Then she worried about turrets, because there was an online group of mainly girls who had it (really!!) and would post themselves. I could not use the word "puberty" because that sent her into a spiral of anger, but I stayed up till all hours letting her vent and saying little. I learned to say little after being burned and realizing she needed the rant. She graduated during covid (the nightmare that made this all explode) with all D's after bringing them up from F's. I was happy she graduated, but she was still adrift. I spent the years in prayer for her, and I asked all praying friends to add her to their prayers. She is now a thriving beautiful woman, and I am thankful for who she is, but I am not deluded by thinking I know the way. It was the grace of God. And that grace does not always mean there won't be pain and consequences. This trans phenomenon is my number one cause, because it's our children who are at stake. I pray for each one of you often, because i know it could be me and it could be her
Thank you for your inspirational story. My daughter has been on a very similar path to yours, except that she is 20 and she has medicalized. Very addicted to the idea of having many disorders, being on medications, and being trans. I hope and pray daily that she will understand that her parents are the only ones who love her enough to tell her the truth, and that she comes to accept herself for the brilliant, beautiful woman I know is still inside of her. Happy for you, I love reading these stories.
same, my daughter now 31, bearded and breastless, simply so sad, soul crushing, I pray she returns to sanity as I know one day she will and that it happens before I am dead.
i understand. the breasts of their child are really important to dads
What a tasteless, heartless, antagonistic comment this is.
Do you feel better now, getting that bile out of your system?
there's nothing feminist about reducing women to their breasts. it's disgusting and perverted. if we want to win this fight, we have to accept that some women might be happier with a breast reduction, but that doesn't make them the opposite sex
Breast reduction and breast removal are two, very different things.