{"id":47688,"date":"2016-03-18T19:28:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T00:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=47688"},"modified":"2025-06-21T13:13:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T18:13:55","slug":"statement-against-encouraging-transgenderism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/statement-against-encouraging-transgenderism\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement Against Encouraging Transgenderism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t

Source<\/strong>: “Gender Ideology Harms Children<\/a>“, American College of Pediatricians, 2016<\/p>\n

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 regarding who a person is, nor is a life of artificial chemicals and unnecessary surgeries to impersonate another sex healthy for any person.<\/p>\n

“98% of gender confused boys and 88% of gender confused girls eventually accept their biological sex after naturally passing through puberty.”<\/p>\n

“Rates of suicide are twenty times greater among adults who use cross-sex hormones and undergo sex reassignment surgery …”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 regarding who a person is,…<\/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":[305],"class_list":["post-47688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issues","tag-transgenderism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33792,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/how-do-i-advise-someone-who-claims-to-have-gender-dysphoria\/","url_meta":{"origin":47688,"position":0},"title":"How do I advise someone who claims to have gender dysphoria?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"March 28, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Good day! I hope you are doing well. I have a friend who's a transgender atheist, though she did not surgically alter her body (since she's barely a teenager). She inwardly feels that she is a he. She has even demanded us to call her by a male name,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Answer"","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":20498,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/inconsistent-treatment-of-transgenderism\/","url_meta":{"origin":47688,"position":1},"title":"Inconsistent Treatment of Transgenderism","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"February 29, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"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\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":32786,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/sex-reassignment-doesnt-work\/","url_meta":{"origin":47688,"position":2},"title":"Sex Reassignment Doesn’t Work","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"March 1, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Source: Ryan T. Anderson, \"Sex Reassignment Doesn't Work. Here Is the Evidence.\"\u00a0The Heritage Foundation, 9 March 2018. \"... the medical evidence suggests that sex reassignment does not adequately address the psychosocial difficulties faced by people who identify as transgender. Even when the procedures are successful technically and cosmetically, and even\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":4974,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/no-evidence-people-are-born-gay-or-transgender\/","url_meta":{"origin":47688,"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":52757,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/trapped-in-a-lie\/","url_meta":{"origin":47688,"position":4},"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":86582,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/fatal-flaws-in-transgender-brain-studies\/","url_meta":{"origin":47688,"position":5},"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":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}