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Post by Cindy on Sept 27, 2021 9:37:09 GMT -5
In 2007, America had one pediatric gender clinic; today there are hundreds. Testosterone is readily available to adolescents from places like Planned Parenthood and Kaiser, often on a first visit—without even a therapist’s note.
How did we get to this point? How is it that we are all supposed to pretend that the only way you can know I’m a woman is if I tell you my pronouns? How did we get to an America in which a 13-year-old in the State of Washington can begin “gender affirming” therapy without her parents’ consent? How did we get to an America in which a 15-year-old in Oregon can undergo “top surgery”—elective double mastectomy—without her parents’ permission? And what can we do about it? ...
Continue readingimprimis.hillsdale.edu/gender-ideology-run-amok/
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Post by fearnot on Sept 30, 2021 13:31:46 GMT -5
Excellent article.
I personally found it only lacked one thing and that is a conversation about God, in this issue.
I do not doubt some young children can feel and believe they are the opposite sex
But the question that to me could be discussed is did God make a mistake?
I wonder, if many or most of these children come from a Christian background, having Christian parents, that study the Bible with their little ones daily, or a non Christian background?
I am not saying that there are not other things that may come into play
( hormonal imbalance maybe? a lot of people talking about this issue to them, being hurt by someone ( even sexually at a young age) etc.
But to me, the most important view in all of this is what God says.
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Post by Cindy on Oct 1, 2021 9:18:43 GMT -5
I had 5 children within a year of each other. The older ones constantly teased the younger ones. They started telling Christopher that he was a girl when he was only a year old. So one morning when he woke up, he announced quite proudly to me that he was a girl! I didn't even blink. I simply knelt down and told him that no, he was a boy and that his siblings were just teasing him. He didn't doubt my word for a second and has enjoyed being a boy ever since. He was the youngest boy. My oldest boy was teased by my firstborn - a girl. She'd dress him up like a girl all the time and put on little skits with him. (she was only a year older than he was.) But he never thought he was a girl because I told him he was a boy and he believed me. I told him that he could tell he was a boy because he had a penis and girls don't have a penis. That made my daughter cry; she didn't think it was fair that she couldn't have one too! So I told her that she had something no boys have, and that it's called a vagina. She thought that was pretty neat, that God would give them each something special so they'd know what sex they were. They never questioned it again.
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Post by fearnot on Oct 1, 2021 10:29:14 GMT -5
But today....if they had been in school even kindergarten, some teachers might tell the class to call Christopher, a girl ( and perhaps give him a girl name etc.) and visa versa.
When, just one chat with each, settled the issue.
It is so sad, how children are being abused today, lied to, given false information etc.
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Post by Cindy on Oct 5, 2021 9:32:52 GMT -5
But today....if they had been in school even kindergarten, some teachers might tell the class to call Christopher, a girl ( and perhaps give him a girl name etc.) and visa versa.
When, just one chat with each, settled the issue.
It is so sad, how children are being abused today, lied to, given false information etc. Yes, it is. I know several children who have decided they're a different sex. They go to school with my grandkids, and have been to my house a number of times. We've told them exactly what we this gender thing is all about and hoped they'd not go that route, but they still did.
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Post by fearnot on Oct 5, 2021 13:07:39 GMT -5
That is really sad to hear! Leonard said Aaliayah has gone back to thinking she is bi
I know, people's sins are their own, but others can also be a bad influence and I think, many ( not all), school teachers, are just adding a LOT fuel, to the fire!
I don't recall, any such discussions when I was in middle school( it was called Jr. High back in my day), or High school, and absolutely not in elementary or grammar school!
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Post by Cindy on Oct 6, 2021 9:08:37 GMT -5
That is really sad to hear! Leonard said Aaliayah has gone back to thinking she is bi
I know, people's sins are their own, but others can also be a bad influence and I think, many ( not all), school teachers, are just adding a LOT fuel, to the fire!
I don't recall, any such discussions when I was in middle school( it was called Jr. High back in my day), or High school, and absolutely not in elementary or grammar school! What a shame. We warned them that the people who persisted in this kind of thing generally tend to wind up committing suicide.
Others most definitely can influence others to sin, which, of course, is a sin to do. Jesus was talking about this when He said: “But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea. “Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to sin! Such things must come, but woe to the man through whom they come!” (Matthew 18:6–7)
I know many people think Jesus was talking about literal little children there, but He really wasn't. He was calling everyone who has come to believe in Him "little ones". This doesn't say, but I imagine that since Jesus knows who belongs to Him even before they're born, this might even apply to someone who would come to believe in Him later, but was at the time still unsaved. If so, that makes causing someone to sin an even more scary thing to do! So every teacher that considers themselves a "Christian" but is afraid of losing their job and goes along with the curriculum, is in for a world of hurt when they come to stand before Jesus. So is every so called "pastor" who has gone along with the world about these kind of things, including homosexuality, and abortion, etc.
Sadly so is every single person who belongs to the congregation of a pastor or priest that goes along with the world in these things and doesn't separate themselves from that church or try to show the pastor the Truth in God's Word. People are so accustomed to just saying things like "I was just doing my job", or "I was just doing what I was told", or "Well that's what my church taught me, so how was I to know it wasn't true?" When they stand before our Lord, they will discover that every single person is responsible for finding the Truth for themselves. That doesn't mean that they should go to church every day. It means when someone, even their pastor or priest tells them that God's Word says such and such, they need to get their Bibles out and check it for themselves to see if it's really what He says. Obviously, they can't do that though, if they don't first know the entire Bible fairly well. And that's something that's become very rare in the church today.
I doubt if many people would have even dreamed up anything like what's happening today back when we were kids!
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Post by fearnot on Oct 6, 2021 20:59:14 GMT -5
I think Aaliyiah is vulnerable and perhaps to suicide.
She kind of lives in an often angry state.... one might think, that is a strong state for hurting others
But it can also be ( I think) a state for hurting one's self.
She has actually already suffered a lot of abuse physical, some sexual, and some mental
But it 'seems' the teachers ( tho ones not a good influence) have picked up on that.
But thankfully, there is at least one teacher I 'think' is a Christian
He is at church every Sunday, without fail.... I know that is not a guarantee ( there was also a super super nice teacher who last year was his last year as a teacher..... All our kids, love him felt safe around him.
And this remaining 'Christian teacher) Aaliyiah, looks so happy and so relieved to see this teacher at school. She jokes: Oh No....Mr. ------- is here again today!
But her happy, peaceful, relieved state ( which I so rarely see)..
gives away the fact, she feels safe around him And again...all out kids do Rylan and Devon, also, go to see him, with Aaliyiah,
to chat, and say Hi to him.
Our pastor is 'kind' to the gays but does not change the Bible message about it.
Devon, often goes up after the service, to tell him, what part of the sermon he 'liked' or was convicted etc. about.
Pastor, John, started that with Devon, a few years back... It makes Devon really think, about the scriptures and how to apply them. /font]
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Post by Cindy on Oct 7, 2021 7:22:22 GMT -5
Your pastor sounds like a good one!
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