Transgender Ideology is Inherently Destructive
The assassination of Charlie Kirk by an accused shooter with numerous ties to transgenderism has placed a spotlight on violence from transgender–identified individuals and their allies.
But transgenderism’s harms don’t just come from individuals. Transgender ideology, in and of itself, is inherently damaging and it has led to great destruction.
Ideas have consequences and transgender dogma, rooted as it is in falsehood and the destruction of the body, has wreaked incredible damage on all of society. It has reaped a dark, dismal harvest across the West.
To be clear, most transgender-identified individuals are not violent. Many wrestle with deep emotional, spiritual and psychological issues, but they still choose not to commit crimes. Many simply want to live in peace – without political engagement or even imposing their beliefs on others.
Scripture calls us to love those caught in the transgender web of deceit.
At the same time, as Paul said, we pull down strongholds, “casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God” (2 Corinthians 10:4-5).
That’s why we must understand and courageously speak the truth: Gender ideology is innately harmful, and it has fostered and led to great destruction.
The harms from gender ideology stem, first of all, from its originators, men with twisted thinking and actions who founded the transgender movement, creating and fostering a false dogma.
Instead of trying to help people (usually men) struggling with disorders like cross dressing or sexual identity confusion, men like Magnus Hirshfeld and Harry Benjamin, who believed someone could change from male to female with hormones and surgeries. The two were early “sexologists” who helped perform experimental – sometimes deadly – medical procedures on men.
John Money, the disgraced researcher who is lauded as the father of modern transgender theory blatantly lied about a failed attempt to change a boy’s “gender identity” from male to female.
Money invented the term “gender identity,” using it to differentiate between sex – being male or female, a biological reality – and “gender” – a completely internal, subjective construct. “Gender” now refers to what people believe about themselves as male, female, neither, both or something completely different.
These men were forerunners, laying the rotted foundations for the transgender movement.
The belief that sex is somehow less important than and separate from “gender” is a key component of gender ideology, which is built out of other falsehoods and contradictory ideas. These include:
- Male and female are “social constructs” not rooted in physical reality.
- Some people are neither male nor female; others are a combination of the two.
- “Gender” is fluid and changeable, and there are an infinitude of “genders.”
- “Gender” is innate and immutable, and it is damaging to help someone embrace their bodily reality.
- Drugs, hormones and surgeries can be used to change a person’s body to match their internal “gender.”
- Others must agree with gender ideology, or they are hateful, transphobic bigots.
- Those who disagree with transgenderism cause suicidality and violence against transgender-identified individuals.
These lies, having no basis in medicine, science or reality, have brought incalculable harm to millions. Here are some examples.
Transgender ideology harms children. Teachers and librarians have introduced transgender books, curriculum and classroom readings to children, inappropriately sexualizing and confusing them.
The federal government, state legislatures, departments of education and local school boards are guilty of harming children as they mandated the teaching of gender dogma and the implementation of school “transgender policies.”
Even more damage is done when children do what they’re taught – and embrace a false identity as something other than their innate sex.
Transgender ideology leads to the devastation of children’s bodies, minds and souls. At a recent conference, a young woman described how she embraced transgender ideas and had a double mastectomy and hysterectomy in her early 20s.
Transgender beliefs affirmed her adolescent discomfort with her body and taught her she could turn into a boy. She’s now become a follower of Jesus Christ, but her body remains damaged, ravaged by medical professionals with the completely unscientific belief that drugs, hormones and surgeries can change a woman into a man.
Multiply the damage done to her healthy body by tens of thousands of other children, adolescents, teens and young adults and it’s clear how many lives are affected.
Transgender ideology destroys families. Children with sexual identity confusion are told, by schools, clinicians and online influencers not to trust their parents. Parents are the enemy and therefore transgender involvement should be hidden from them.
Children are encouraged to live with one identity at home and a different one at school. They pursue body-damaging chest binders, puberty blockers and opposite-sex hormones without parental consent or knowledge.
Parents are falsely told, “affirm them or they will die,” and blackmailed into helping a child attain destructive medical interventions – often against their intuitive understanding that these procedures are not good. If they don’t agree, those caught in transgender deceit are told to shun their parents – and any other family members who won’t affirm their “true identity.”
Transgender ideology tramples on parental rights. Schools have lied to parents and hidden children’s sexual identity confusion from them. State child protective service agencies and courts have removed children from their parents because the parents refuse to allow their children’s bodies to be mutilated and irreparably injured.
There’s much more to say, but ultimately, transgender ideology is an assault on reality. It’s undeniable that humans are sexually dimorphic: Individuals are either male or female, with innate differences. Transgenderism seeks to replace truth with fictitious ideology.
Despite recent advances in protecting children, education and parental rights, all right-thinking people must continue to speak the truth and do battle against this pernicious false belief system.
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