The tragedy of transgenderism

Meet the latest sexual fad: transgenderism.

The Bible says God makes humans. He makes them male and female. He knows how to do it. He’s been doing it for a long time. But then, most people don’t believe the Bible any more.

Now somebody has decided that what matters is not biological sex, but gender. The two things don’t have to be the same. Physically, you could be a man. But really, you are a woman, trapped in a man’s body. Or you could be a man, trapped in a woman’s body. What matters is not your sex, but what gender you think you are.

Let’s be clear here. Gender dysphoria – unhappiness due to one’s gender or physical sex – is a genuine condition, and people suffering from it deserve effective treatment. They do not deserve to be made popular heroes or encouraged to undergo physical mutilation.

Recently there was the first ever debate on transgender issues in the House of Commons. Only a small number of MPs gathered for the debate, which one commentator described as “a masterclass in groupthink.”

Currently for a person legally to change sex he needs to be over 18, diagnosed with gender dysphoria, to have been living as the opposite sex for at least two years and to intend to do so for the rest of his life. These MPs decided they want all these requirements swept away and sex change permitted purely on the basis of the person’s choice. It would mean that anyone would have the right to change his or her sex, for whatever reason, and would have the right to be affirmed in that sex by everyone else.

 Concerning legal sex change, some 4,500 gender recognition certificates have been granted in the UK. These MPs talked about “more than 650,000 people in this country” you could “identify with being trans. . . and that is probably a gross underestimate.” The figure of 650,000 is said to be totally misleading.

The MPs wanted the 2004 Gender Recognition Act amending and the 2010 Equality Act updating with the “utmost  urgency,” so a person’s gender identity might be recognised. This had nothing to do with his birth gender, and “everything to do with the gender they believe they are.” Legislation under the 2010 act was fast becoming outdated. (One wonders how we managed for the thousands of years before 2010.)

This move would mean that a man who declared himself a woman would be able to have access to girls’ and women’s toilets, changing rooms, single-sex hospital wards and women’s prisons. Offences of voyeurism and indecent exposure for a man who declared himself a woman would cease to exist. A girl naming someone for indecent exposure in a women’s changing room would be open to a charge of homophobic hate crime.

After the debate, the churches were silent.

A 114-page study by Drs Lawrence Mayer and Paul McHugh, described as two of the world’s most respected scholars, says the hypothesis that gender identity is an innate, fixed property of human beings that is independent of biological sex – that a person might be “a woman trapped in a man’s body” or “a man trapped in a woman’s body” - is not supported by scientific evidence.

It says that one of the tragic consequences of insisting that children are recognised, addressed and treated according to their preferred “gender identity” as opposed to their biological sex is that it can result in prolonged identification as transgender for students who otherwise would have grown out of it. It finds that “people are born that way” is not supported by scientific evidence.

Doctors say there is no such thing as a “male” brain or a “female” brain.

● Undergoing sex re-assignment surgery increases the risk of suicidal behaviour, psychiatric morbidity and death. A recent long-term study suggests a suicide rate of 20 times the average for the rest of the population. Some doctors are refusing to have anything to do with sex re-assignment surgery because of 80 to 90 per cent negative outcomes.

 ● Girls have been given puberty blockers followed by testosterone treatment. This causes infertility and increased risk of diabetes, stroke, and ovarian and endometrical cancer.

         

● Can I Tell You About Gender?, a book published by the Government-backed group Educate and Celebrate and approved by Ofsted, says schools should stop talking about “boys” and “girls.” It speaks of characters as “transman,” ”transwoman,” “panromantic” and “genderqueer.” It is recommended for children as young as seven.

● Schools are being asked to promote radical gender ideology. Gender ideology is being promoted in some schools to children as young as four. Children are arriving home from school confused, having been told they can choose whether to be a girl or a boy.

● Gender-neutral toilets are being installed at newly-built schools to prevent “transphobia.”

● Incidentally, sex education lessons in schools are failing to reduce teenage conception rates and the transmission of sexually transmitted diseases. There are growing demands to make sex education – already compulsory in secondary schools – compulsory in primary schools. Education secretary Justine Greening says she has not reached a final decision. Explicit literature is being produced for children at ever younger ages.

Having read all of the above, please don’t say “Oh, isn’t that awful!” Saying “Oh, isn’t that awful!” achieves nothing. Look up the facts at www.transgendertrend.com and www.christian.org.uk/issue/transsexualism. Write to your MP. Stand up for what you believe. Let your voice be heard. Would you let the so-called sex experts loose on your children without your saying something about it?