A Biblical Worldview Church - Redeeming Gender
America is in a “transgender moment.” Rapid onset gender dysphoria (ROGD). Formerly known as gender identity disorder – it’s characterized by a severe and persistent discomfort in one’s biological sex. Increasingly, when confronted with a person who experiences gender dysphoria, doctors and psychologists are allowed to offer only one diagnosis: the patient is transgender.
It used to be 12 sessions, then you could do hormones. Now, it’s 1 or 2 and here we go. Here’s the four-stage transitioning process:
1. Social transitioning: a new name, new wardrobe, new pronouns.
2. Puberty blockers: prevent normal maturation; no progression of the pubertal stage; regression of secondary sex characteristics.
3. Cross-sex hormones: boys receive estrogen; girls receive testosterone – trying to mimic the process of puberty in the opposite sex.
4. Sex reassignment: I won’t even talk about how the anatomy is changed and the horror stories when it goes wrong.
We are told that not treating people as the gender they claim to be is discriminatory. Is it really true that a boy could be trapped in a girl’s body? But if you have a male brain, how would you even know how a girl is supposed to feel? And there’s a slight change in wording. Instead of saying “a biological boy or girl who identifies as this…”; it is now “people actually are the sex they claim to be.”
People who experience this must be treated with compassion, kindness and respect. And above all, told the truth. You can have feelings that are real to you, but those feelings don’t change bodily reality. Parental authority is being denied and they are told if they don’t use puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, then their child is at risk to commit suicide.
