Posted on 01/01/2015 9:14:34 PM PST by Morgana
When I was 14, I learned what transgender meant and cried of happiness. After 10 years of confusion I finally understood who I was. I immediately told my mom, and she reacted extremely negatively, telling me that it was a phase, that I would never truly be a girl, that God doesn't make mistakes, that I am wrong. If you are reading this, parents, please don't tell this to your kids. Even if you are Christian or are against transgender people don't ever say that to someone, especially your kid. That won't do anything but make them hate them self. That's exactly what it did to me.
My mom started taking me to a therapist, but would only take me to christian therapists, (who were all very biased) so I never actually got the therapy I needed to cure me of my depression. I only got more christians telling me that I was selfish and wrong and that I should look to God for help.
When I was 16 I realized that my parents would never come around, and that I would have to wait until I was 18 to start any sort of transitioning treatment, which absolutely broke my heart. The longer you wait, the harder it is to transition. I felt hopeless, that I was just going to look like a man in drag for the rest of my life. On my 16th birthday, when I didn't receive consent from my parents to start transitioning, I cried myself to sleep."
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This is mental illness. The psychiatric establishment does not recognize it as mental illness, and encourages a mentally ill person to seek to have organs removed and/or grafted.
Tell us, is ignorance bliss?
You seem to have a penchant for name-calling of late. And your response does indicate that you do regard scientists and doctors as if they were of a quasi-priestly kind. All of said quasi-priestly order insist that the cause(s) of mental illness remain “unknown” and that there “may be” a “genetic predisposition”.
I cannot tell what manner of disorder you have, but no chemical imbalance is inborn; I have an aunt that was drugged into near-oblivion who was diagnosed with the syndrome with the ever-changing name (back then it was “manic depression”).
Nobody mentioned “original sin” save yourself. Perhaps you should have asked the person who said “evil will” what that person meant by that instead of presuming?
“What? Mental illness is caused by an abnormal brain chemistry which is something a person is born with.”
SOMETIMES that is the case. Mental illness is also caused by trauma. That is what I suspect happened to this kid. I suspect he was molested at an early age. More than likely his parents did not know of it. Yes sexual abuse can lead to mental illness.
I’m going to say this about your post...it’s a proven fact that this kid and other people like him need to be in a nervous hospital. Anyone who wants to cut off body parts that are not infected or diseased are off their rocker.
It makes me wonder if the whole “devout Christian parents” and “only Christian therapists” claims are true or just part of the “larger narrative”.
The latter is most likely.
I’ve taken a deeper look at spiritual realities since, at one time, believing the picture was limited to the physical. (I still very much acknowledge that the picture contains the physical.)
Humanity defied God before its physical birth, while it was probably still just souls (except Adam and Eve, who were incarnate already). This sounds almost whoo-ooo New Ageish, but has the stark difference that God is unambiguously identified as king. And accepting this makes all the difference in eternity. This is something only the Great Physician can fix.
God knows. It could be something fabricated after the fact, and unless the parents talk we would not know.
Let’s remember that it’s possible, however (and sadly) to have “devout Christian parents” who are hypocrites. Legalistically very good, in spirit quite deficient if not altogether missing. Our hearts should melt in gratitude before God if our attitudes are right. Instead sometimes they rage in resentment.
These threads where folks with obviously no direct experience with a loved one’s mental illness and make grand pronouncements about evil and demonic possession make my blood boil.
At the same time, I hope they can forever live in their abject ignorance.
I would wish the experience my sister and I had over the last 20 years of mom’s life on absolutely no one.
People like that also think they would like to be a bird a pony...................
really, so I can commit suicide or murder you same same.
Unusual.
It’s the same sin; whether murder of self or murder of someone else. It’s all murder.
Ridiculous. Simply ridiculous. Once on a plane I happen to catch an MTV episode that showed a teenage girl who had made the transition to be a boy and had been taking hormone treatments etc. with her mother’s approval. She-he decided she-he didn’t want to be a boy anymore so she stopped the hormone treatments but still had a beard. She-he underwent electrolysis which was expensive. Her-his mother said that she would no longer support any transitioning back-and-forth. The girl-boy-girl was very upset that her mother was not going to be supportive of her continued exploration of different genders.
killing yourself is not murder. That’s why there is a separate word for it. I’m not discussing what you think is a sin. I am discussing legality and right to control your own life without busy bodies making the decision for you.
Oh, ok, I thought you were wondering about the moral gravity of it.
It may not be against the civil law to kill yourself. I don’t really see how it could be, since if you do it, you’re dead, obviously.
sometimes it’s helpful to distinguish sin from law. Not all sins are illegal.
In the case of suicide what is the legal penalty. How many trials have their been?
“In the case of suicide what is the legal penalty. How many trials have their been?”
Well, obviously, if they are dead, none.
But attempted suicide? I wonder. I don’t know.
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