We can help children without physically altering them
Editor: This is in response to the letter sent by Sarah Jane Smith on transgender rights. I fear for the future of our country when we have people who are pushing for the death of the unborn and the mutilation and drugging of children and calling it healthcare.
Affirming that which is a lie and going to the lengths of mutilation and gender reassignment “therapy,” especially for our children, is wrong on all counts. It is not health care to cut off a child’s perfectly healthy and purposeful body parts or load a child up with hormone-blockers and psychotropics, opening them up to further complications and leaving them dependent upon the pharmaceutical industry for life.
Look at the long-term studies on hormone therapy and gender-reassignment surgery and tell me that the suicide rate doesn’t increase among those who have had either, or. Not only do these methods not alleviate the rate of suicide, but they also bring about higher levels of mental health issues like depression and anxiety, increased psychiatric hospitalizations, and increased physical health concerns.
Why would we want that for our children’s future? Instead of giving in to feelings and the errant expressions our children often give, we ought to affirm the biological truth of who they are, celebrate their uniqueness, and let them know that although they may feel this way now, they may not always.
Parents should try to get to the bottom of their children’s feelings rather than throwing drugs at them and mutilating them in some attempt at a social virtue signal. Parents should explain that feelings are fluid and ever-changing, not gender or biology.
Our children need to know they were fearfully and wonderfully made, intricately woven together in the womb by a God who lovingly and carefully created them with a purpose and a plan (whether planned by us or not) with the very body and chromosomes they were born with. God doesn’t make mistakes. Let’s start affirming and speaking the truth, and stand up for it instead of giving in to a lie. Doesn’t anyone remember The Emperor’s New Clothes? JENNY MILLER Lodi