Posted on 04/10/2015 12:25:06 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I am soooo glad I grew up before the LGBT liberal indoctrination became the rule of the land.
I think that when people have severe mental health issues regarding homosexuality and gender reassignment and who are seriously unstable, such as this young man was, it is often a mistake to have a church counselor put in charge of care.
This kid needed the intervention of a serious medical psychiatrist.
Any religious counseling after the person has been stabilized.
Jump, Jump, Jump.
The kid, at 17, was in the range of becoming an adult, and thus within range of making decisions on his own. But he chose to walk in front of a truck instead. That was his choice too.
He was a sissy, which is sad, but at least his parents wouldn’t let him pay a doctor for surgical mutilation. It’s a shame gay activists have so many mentally disturbed people convinced that surgical mutilation of healthy organs is a positive option.
If he had recognized that he could act effeminate without castration, he would have been much happier. The actual situation, believing that a chainsaw to the groin could change his DNA too, is what led to his stupid and selfish decision (yes, selfish - a non-selfish suicide would have killed himself without ruining a truck driver’s life on the way out).
I think it’s safe to say that this person did not get the right kind of help from anyone. Not even sure if it’s available right now considering that this isn’t considered a problem of the psyche.
The child got conflicting messages from everyone and wasn’t emotionally equipped to deal with it. Very, very sad.
I personally know of a lovely young lady who is currently in the process of becoming a young man. He is currently dressing and appearing as a man and so I will refer to him as he. He was raised Christian and graduated from a quality Christian college. His parents have decided to disown him for the time being. I think they are getting advice from a Christian counselor because I don’t see how you could disown your own flesh and blood child who you have loved passionately from day one. I don’t suggest an answer to this dilemma except to report that it is a very difficult and emotional situation for all involved. If I was the parent I would love and respect this child no matter what. Suicide would be my worst nightmare. Better to have your child alive and accessible to the family.
The proper response to this kind of request should be serious help from grounded mental health professionals. The only problem with this is that the psy-type professionals are brainwashed by the “standard of care”. This kind of thing is so sad. Anyone that wishes to engage in the false hope of changing their sex will find that they cannot hide from what they really are inside.
Imagine if this young impressionable boy had never been exposed to the idea of transexaulism. He would be alive today. Sexual development can be confusing but what hasn’t been addressed is that with all this openness about gender identity and inclusiveness that suicides among the young 15-19 have more than tripled since the 1950s. So all this crap, confusion and sensitivity has did nothing to help young kids and clearly is hurting them.
http://www.nber.org/chapters/c10690.pdf
I’ve read some stories about child sex abuse victims growing up to become transgendered.
There’s a lot of insanity in our society about sex and I identify with LGBT people on that basis for sure.
I agree, the truck driver is a true victim here... how horrible for him! I don’t understand why, even if you see no other option, and decide to kill yourself, why force another person to be your pawn?
The purpose of a suicide is usually to “punish” someone... in this case it would be the parents for not giving in to his temper tantrums ...
How would they know that their genitals are supposed to look different unless someone told them?
Seems to me that normal people don't look at pieces of their body and say "That's wrong." Where did they get this idea that what they have is wrong?
This idea could have only come from others, and therefore the argument that it is an innate characteristic of who they are, is just bullsh*t.
I think they just have a Body dysmorphic disorder, and they seize on the notion that they are the wrong sex. All of their subsequent efforts then go towards convincing themselves that their jumped to conclusions are correct. It becomes a self perpetuating self reinforcing delusion.
Transgenders are very prone to suicide, especially post surgery. They discover that it didn't solve their angst after all, and they realize there is nothing else they can do to feed their delusion.
This. The only reason they would have a preference regarding gender at that age is if they were steered that way.
[[From the article “either I live the rest of my life as a lonely man who wished he were a woman or I live my life as a lonelier woman who hates herself’]]
A typical sinner- ALWAYS blaming someone else for their misery- I feel sorry for the parents who have to live with both the loss of their child AND the FALSE accusation by their child- it is VERY clear that their son was unhappy no matter what choice he made (as is usually the case with gay and transgen der people) and it’s VERY clear that the source of his unhappiness was his lifestyle choice- He was VERY selfish and VERY self-centered (again, typical of gay and transgender people) for blaming his parents for his unhappiness when the real source of his unhappiness was his own sinful lifestyle- He CHOSE to live a SINFUL lifestyle, and when He did, his conscience wouldn’t allow him to be happy in his SIN- and he turns around and blames someone else? VERY selfish!
[[His parents had every right to not allow him to mutilate his genitals while he was a minor living under their roof.]]
It is now against the law in Massachusetts for parents to take their confused mentally ill kids who think they are gay or transgender to a counselor who tries to rectify the child’s illness- the only people they can take their child to are those who tell the child their decision to live a sinful life is just fine-
Most certainly, And the issue is not gender. It is the will. A human determined to force his/her will obstinately and defiantly not only upon parents but upon the whole of rational existence may carry this to the irrational end of removing self from that existence. Depression can be explained as simply anger turned inward, when one cannot have one's own way.
The parents' roles are inadequately described in this article, but obviously this youth's fixation needed to be dealt with, by someone, long before seventeen. IMHO
You can take on this wholly unrealistic attitude, but it is neither sane nor helpful, IMHO. Unless every cell of this person's body has a Y chromosome, it is not a male body, no matter what degree it is surgically disfigured, and to pretend otherwise is to send the whole of the range of society into a dichotomy of what is real. The only person with a real excuse for this is one born as a biological hermaphodite.
Actually, I don't believe this to be true.
I grew up in a time and place that had no exposure and had a friend in high school that was like this. The only thing he could figure out was he was gay but he did not feel like he fit in that category either. He committed suicide because he could not take it any more.
Looking back now, he was transsexual but had no idea what it was, or even if there was such a thing.
Not knowing is not the answer either.
However, granting all and every child the permission to destroy any chance of a normal life is not a good response.
There are standards but just like everything else at this time, they are being abused and there are victims being taken advantage of.
many of these youths are rebelling against a difficult childhood and it has this form.
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