Taking Away Their Humanity
It is one of the most haunting things I have read in a long time. It is also the polar opposite of what our culture tells us is the truth. I’ll share what it is in a minute.
As we come to the end of so-called “Pride Month,” we are exhausted by the unceasing messaging of all the sins that are being promoted. We are tired of seeing rainbows (with an ever-expanding array of colors) everywhere and we are ready for something else to dominate the news.
But we cannot ever leave this issue until it is shown to be what it is: sin.
Today, though, I want to share with you something I read during this month that opened my eyes even more, not just to the sinfulness of the “T” in LGBTQ+, but of the true danger of it.
For a few years now, and with ever-increasing speed, parents and other adults are being told that they need to affirm the transgender identity of their child. They are told that they need to go ahead and let their child express their “true self” through dress and through things like puberty blockers. Parents are told that there are a few risks, but they are worth it. Parents are regularly fed the line that they would rather have a living daughter than a dead son (or vice versa), so they need to just go along and let the child take some blockers and live his/her life.
But what are the risks of those puberty blockers? There are actually many, but one of them goes 180-degrees against the “there are a few risks but none worth worrying about” line that says that these help you to “affirm the humanity” of your child.
The following paragraph was written by a doctor who wanted to remain anonymous, but who shares the truth about these procedures. It is lengthy, but please take the time to read it carefully. The physician stated,
This medication [the puberty blocker often given to children, ADF] is called a “gonadotropin releasing hormone agonist” and it comes in the form of monthly injections or an implant. And because it simulates the activity of this hormone, it shuts down the activity of the hypothalamus. The hypothalamus is this almond-sized structure in your brain, it’s one of the most primal structures we have, and it controls all the other hormonal structures in your body—your sexual development, your emotions, your fight-or-flight response, everything. But it shouldn’t be described in such cold physiological terms because your hypothalamus is not just a hormone factory. It’s this system that allows you to stand in awe of the beauty of a sunset, or to hear the sounds of orchestral music and to stop whatever you’re doing and want to listen. And I always think that if someone were to ask me, Where is it that you would look for the divine spark in each individual? I would say that it would be somewhere “beneath the inner chamber,” which is the Greek derivation of the term hypothalamus. To shut down that system is to shut down what makes us human.
[SOURCE]
So, in other words, to “affirm” the humanity of these children, we are allowing them to take a medicine that is shutting down their humanity. (Also, did you realize that it is estimated that about 4 out of every 10 people who identify as transgender will attempt suicide…after they “transition”? So, the entire line of argument is flawed and a lie.)
Are there people who struggle with their sexuality? Of course, there are. It seems that there have been some who struggled in these ways for eons. But to not only affirm their confusion, but then also to do something that takes away their humanity? We are being cruel.
Further, though, we are removing them from a relationship with God.
How can I say that? Because part of what it means to be drawn to God is to be in wonder and awe of His creation and of His splendor. But if we are taking away (or greatly reducing) that capacity in people, then they will be unable (or greatly hindered) from being able to be in wonder and awe of Him. So why would they ever want a relationship with Him?
The more I research and study this issue, it is not that I get more angry (although I do sometimes). It is that I get sadder. We are doing things that are tragic in the lives of people who are struggling. We are sterilizing them. We are affirming a delusion so they live this life without a grasp on reality. And we are taking away some of the great joys of being human: wonder and awe.
It has to stop, and not just for children. It all has to stop.
“Male and female He created them” (Genesis 1:27)
AUTHOR: Adam Faughn
