Letting Children Drive: The Transgender Tragedy Part 1

You would never let a 10-year-old take over the driver’s seat for you and drive 70mph down the freeway. You would never let them drive you the short distance to the grocery store, no matter how badly they wanted to drive. You would never hand them the keys to your car and say, “Go ahead, you know where you’re going. Have fun.” Why not? Because it is dangerous; for you, for them, and for everyone else on the road. Likewise, you would never give a 10-year-old your credit cards, and bank cards and say, “Buy whatever you think is best. You are responsible and know how to manage money.” And yet, this is the very logic being used today when it comes to transgenderism.

What once upon a time adults did in the shadows of society, now children are doing as early as the age of three. With the normalization of homosexuality and transgenderism in our society, as well as the rise of social media, there has come a surge of kids younger and younger, thinking they are the opposite gender and wanting to transition… And their parents are letting them. Not only in name and outward appearance, but medically, through hormone blockers and opposite sex hormone injections as early as the age of 10. Parents are supposed to protect their children. Instead, they are letting them drive, quite literally before they even know how to drive. With the rejection of God comes the rejection of guidance, and these parents are letting their children guide when they have no idea where they are going—because the parents themselves have no idea where they are going. It’s the blind leading the blind. Parents, doctors, and school teachers alike are trusting young kids, who have no idea what sexuality is, to determine for the rest of their lives their sexual nature and gender—and they believe that they are capable of it. This is idiocy.

A 10-year-old child has no idea what sexuality is, their bodies aren’t even developed yet. They have never experienced what it means to be a matured male or female. And all the authorities in their lives, who are supposed to protect them, are letting them mutilate their bodies and trade away their fertility and sexuality (which a 10 year old can’t even begin to fathom the far reaches of that decision) for what they think they want now.

“And whoever welcomes one such child in My name welcomes Me. If anyone causes one of these little ones–those who believe in Me–to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea. Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to stumble!” Matthew 18:5-7a

A 19-year-old transgender male (born female), who was reconsidering their decision put it this way, “I mean it is super easy as a kid to hear these things are irreversible and be like ‘Ok! I don’t care.’ You know, just, ‘I want it.’ You don’t think of time in the same way when you’ve only experienced a tiny little sliver of it.” Children don’t know what they are doing. They want what they want, when they want it. And often, they change their minds. Yet authorities in every category are letting, and even encouraging, children, with half-developed brains, make IRREVERSIBLE life altering decisions.

According to University of Rochester Medical Center, “The rational part of a teen’s brain isn’t fully developed and won’t be until age 25 or so. In fact, recent research has found that adult and teen brains work differently. Adults think with the prefrontal cortex, the brain’s rational part. This is the part of the brain that responds to situations with good judgement and an awareness of long-term consequences. Teens process information with the amygdala. This is the emotional part. In teen’s brains, the connections between the emotional part of the brain and the decision making center are still developing—and not always at the same rate. That’s why when teens have overwhelming emotional input, they can’t explain later what they were thinking. They weren’t thinking as much as they were feeling.” If that’s the case for a teenager, how much more so a 10-year-old?

80% of gender dysphoria is solved through talk therapy (Scott Newgent). 84% of children with gender dysphoria grow up and change their mind (Affirmation Generation). These drastic medical interventions are unnecessary, uncalled-for, unchangeable, and destructive. There is evidence that transitioning is not beneficial, but actually harmful to those being treated. It’s not a gender issue, but rather an identity issue.

“Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.” Proverbs 16:18

“When pride comes, then comes disgrace.” Proverbs 11:2

At the root of all LGBTQ & Pride is Satan. Satan is the Father of Lies (Jn. 8:44) and Author of Confusion (1 Cor. 14:33). To see it for what it really is, transgenderism is a tragedy. One ultimate goal of Satan is infertility—the destruction of life. Through confusion of the sexes, he will cause thousands, if not millions, to electively become sterile. One major side effect of cross sex hormones is infertility. To begin this process without having developed your natural reproductive organs (which is what people are doing when they give their child puberty blockers and then start them on hormone injections) almost guarantees infertility. Not only that, many teenagers and young adults who take the transgender train to its ultimate destination have surgeries done to remove their reproductive organs all together. And these effects are IRREVERSIBLE. There’s an epidemic of medical interventions happening among children and youth that are detrimental–it’s a transdemic. All because they “think” they are the opposite gender. One female child who was being informed of the health risks of transitioning said, “That won’t be a problem for me, I’m really a man” (Affirmation Generation). That’s delusional.

Satan & his lies

Lie #1: Internal gender is separable from external sex. And external sex can be changed to match internal gender.
Your internal gender is God-given and matches that of your external sex. If it does not, you are being deceived by demons to believe a lie, and ultimately, are very confused. You cannot change your sexual nature. You can only perpetually fight against what God instituted with puberty blockers, weekly hormone injections, multiple surgeries, and demand that everyone join you in the delusion with opposite sex pronouns and a name change.

Lie #2: If you don’t comply with affirming your child’s opposite gender decision, they are at risk of committing suicide.
This is the threat many parents are faced with. The truth is the suicide rate of those who have transitioned is 19x higher than population matched controls according to a study done in Sweden (Affirmation Generation). In addition, there is NO evidence that medically transitioning reduces the risk of suicide.

When detransitioner David was planning to get sex reassignment surgery to become a woman, he was talking with two transgender women (males) who had gone through the whole process. One said, “Don’t do it. All of my life I’ve thought that if I could just become a woman, I would find, peace, and joy, and happiness. And now that I am legally and medically a woman, I am more miserable now than I was my entire life. I think about taking my life every day.” The other added, “I think about taking my life several times a day, every day.” (Affirmation Generation).

Lie #3: Gender dysphoria is the root of your problems. You’ll be happy when you transition and all your problems will be solved.
There is a link between trans identity and trauma. Many of these children or young people want to escape who they are and become someone new. They are looking for an identity, a better identity, in sexuality; when in reality, only God can give them their true identity and heal them from their trauma. It’s not a sexuality issue. It’s an identity issue. In truth, sexuality and gender are at the core of our identity. In the beginning God made them male and female. God is the one who gives us our gender and identity. There is no changing that unless you choose to live in a delusion and a lie. The transgender cult is demonic. These people have major mental health problems and the medical world says gender dysphoria is at the root of it, when in reality it’s demons creating confusion. God is the answer and redemption from sin is the solution (Eph. 1:7). Your true identity is found in Jesus (Matt. 16:25). Everyone has to lose their identity in order to truly find it in Christ (Lk. 17:33). No one knows who they are apart from Him. Seeking it in other places never brings satisfaction.

Gender & Identity: The Solution

“And He [Jesus] answered and said to them, ‘Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning “made them male and female.”’” Matthew 19:4-6

Gender, which is inextricable from biological sex, is at the core of our identity. “When God created human beings, He made us male and female. No one is merely a person. We are either male persons or female persons, boys or girls, men or women. The uniqueness of being male or female reaches to the very core of our identity. Far more is involved in the distinction than clothing, hairstyle, voice pitch, or even anatomy. Everything a man does, he does as a man. Everything a woman does, she does as a woman. When we are properly related to God and functioning according to His design, we live with a rich enjoyment of our sexual identity” (Dr. Larry Crabb, Inside Out).

Everyone struggles with their identity and sexuality. It’s part of the fall of man. “Since the Fall, every man struggles to regard himself as fully male and every woman struggles to regard herself as fully female. We see ourselves as weakened men and damaged women… Until we sense the deep discomfort we feel in relating as men and women, we haven’t touched the core of our struggle” (Dr. Larry Crabb, Inside Out). A 10-year-old is just at the beginning of this struggle. And many teenagers are in the throes of this struggle. They think that by changing their gender they can change their identity. Which is a lie. What these kids (and adults) really are looking for is healing. But they will never find it in a new “gender identity.” What they need is a new God-given identity. One that is free from the bondage of sin and corruption of the flesh.

“In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace.” –Ephesians 1:7

“For You created my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb.” –Psalm 139: 13

Resources

Affirmation Generation–Full Documentary
Science, The Transgender Phenomenon, And The Youth–Abigail Shrier at Hillsdale College
Mom Explains What It Took To Rescue Daughter From Transgenderism–Erin Friday on The Daily Signal
Growing Up Trans–Full Documentary by Frontline
What Is A Woman–Full Documentary by Matt Walsh