{"id":20498,"date":"2020-02-29T16:15:57","date_gmt":"2020-02-29T22:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=20498"},"modified":"2020-02-29T16:15:57","modified_gmt":"2020-02-29T22:15:57","slug":"inconsistent-treatment-of-transgenderism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/inconsistent-treatment-of-transgenderism\/","title":{"rendered":"Inconsistent Treatment of Transgenderism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t

Source:<\/strong> Michelle Cretella, “I\u2019m a Pediatrician. Here\u2019s What I Did When a Little Boy Patient Said He Was a Girl.<\/a>”\u00a0The Daily Signal<\/em>, 11 December 2017.<\/p>\n

“Biological sex is not assigned. Sex is determined at conception by our DNA and is stamped into every cell of our bodies. Human sexuality is binary. You either have a normal Y chromosome, and develop into a male, or you don\u2019t, and you will develop into a female. There are at least 6,500 genetic differences between men and women. Hormones and surgery cannot change this.”<\/p>\n

“An identity is not biological, it is psychological. It has to do with thinking and feeling. Thoughts and feelings are not biologically hardwired. Our thinking and feeling may be factually right or factually wrong.”<\/p>\n

“If I walk into my doctor\u2019s office today and say, \u201cHi, I\u2019m Margaret Thatcher,\u201d my physician will say I am delusional and give me an anti-psychotic. Yet, if instead, I walked in and said, \u201cI\u2019m a man,\u201d he would say, \u201cCongratulations, you\u2019re transgender.\u201d\u00a0If I were to say, \u201cDoc, I am suicidal because I\u2019m an amputee trapped in a normal body, please cut off my leg,\u201d I will be diagnosed with body identity integrity disorder. But if I walk into that doctor\u2019s office and say, \u201cI am a man, sign me up for a double mastectomy,\u201d my physician will. See, if you want to cut off a leg or an arm you\u2019re mentally ill, but if you want to cut off healthy breasts or a penis, you\u2019re transgender.”<\/p>\n

“Sometimes mental illness of a parent or abuse of the child are factors, but more commonly, the child has misperceived family dynamics and internalized a false belief.”<\/p>\n

“… when supported in their biological sex through natural puberty, the vast majority of gender-confused children get better.”<\/p>\n

“Mind you, the American Academy of Pediatrics recently came out with a report that urges pediatricians to caution teenagers about getting tattoos because they are essentially permanent and can cause scarring. But this same AAP is 110 percent in support of 16-year-old girls getting a double mastectomy, even without parental consent, so long as the girl insists that she is a man, and has been taking testosterone daily for one year.”<\/p>\n

“To indoctrinate all children from preschool forward with the lie that they could be trapped in the wrong body disrupts the very foundation of a child\u2019s reality testing. If they can\u2019t trust the reality of their physical bodies, who or what can they trust?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

God is clear that feelings are not an accurate guide. The heart is the seat of emotions and feelings, but God said, “The heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately sick; Who can understand it?<\/em>” (Jeremiah 17:9). We have wicked people teaching vulnerable children that their feelings are more important than reality.<\/p>\n

“Thus says the LORD, ‘Stand by the ways and see and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is, and walk in it; and you will find rest for your souls.’ But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’<\/em>” (Jeremiah 6:16).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: Michelle Cretella, “I\u2019m a Pediatrician. Here\u2019s What I Did When a Little Boy Patient Said He Was a Girl.”\u00a0The Daily Signal, 11 December 2017. “Biological sex is not assigned. Sex is determined at conception by our DNA and is stamped into every cell of our bodies. Human sexuality is binary. You either have a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[508,305],"class_list":["post-20498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issues","tag-mental-illness","tag-transgenderism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":47688,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/statement-against-encouraging-transgenderism\/","url_meta":{"origin":20498,"position":0},"title":"Statement Against Encouraging Transgenderism","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"March 18, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Source: \"Gender Ideology Harms Children\", American College of Pediatricians, 2016 The American College of Pediatricians issued a statement in 2016 stating that not accepting your biological sex is a disorder that should not be encouraged in children because of the harm it can do. Feelings do not change the truth\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Issues"","block_context":{"text":"Issues","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/issues\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":20566,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/men-and-women-cannot-change-genders\/","url_meta":{"origin":20498,"position":1},"title":"Men and Women Cannot Change Genders","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"March 2, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Source: \"New Israeli Research Reveals that Men Are Men and Women Are Women,\" CBNNews.com, 13 May 2017. \"... researchers found that a man cannot become a woman by simply \"identifying\" as one and vice versa.\" \"Geneticists from Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science discovered certain genes that are only expressed in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Issues"","block_context":{"text":"Issues","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/issues\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":52757,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/trapped-in-a-lie\/","url_meta":{"origin":20498,"position":2},"title":"Trapped in a Lie","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"March 11, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"by Jeffrey W. Hamilton Text: James 3:8-14 \u00a0 I.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I ran across an article titled, \u201cThe Philosophical Contradictions of the Transgender Worldview\u201d by Ryan T. Anderson \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The transgender movement claims \u201cthat people are what they claim to be, regardless of contrary evidence.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0B.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The lengths the promoters of transgenderism go to deny\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Audio"","block_context":{"text":"Audio","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/audio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4974,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/no-evidence-people-are-born-gay-or-transgender\/","url_meta":{"origin":20498,"position":3},"title":"No Evidence People Are Born Gay or Transgender","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"June 9, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Source: Tyler O'Neil, \"Johns Hopkins Research: No Evidence People Are Born Gay or Transgender\", PJ Media, 23 Aug 2016. Source: Dr. Lawrence S. Mayer and Dr. Paul R. McHugh, \"Sexuality and Gender,\" The New Atlantis, No. 50, Fall 2016. \"The understanding of sexual orientation as an innate, biologically fixed property\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Issues"","block_context":{"text":"Issues","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/issues\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":86582,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/fatal-flaws-in-transgender-brain-studies\/","url_meta":{"origin":20498,"position":4},"title":"Fatal Flaws in Transgender Brain Studies","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"April 12, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Source: Colin Wright, \"Transgender Brain Studies are Fatally Flawed,\" City Journal, 14 March 2025. \"The notion that males can have 'female brains,' and vice versa, rests on a flawed interpretation of 'brain sex' studies that in no way demonstrate or even suggest a definitive biological basis for 'gender identity.'\" \"The\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Issues"","block_context":{"text":"Issues","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/issues\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":26323,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/if-a-person-feels-they-should-be-a-different-sex-didnt-god-make-a-mistake\/","url_meta":{"origin":20498,"position":5},"title":"If a person feels they should be a different sex, didn’t God make a mistake?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"March 6, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Hello there! 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