I’m usually a rather hardhearted jerk.
Those two reddit posts are absolutely heartbreaking. I’m not sure what I would say to them ... It’s bad enough when someone does something horrible to you against your will. It’s far worse when people who should be trustworthy persuade you to be complicit in the horrible things. I’m truly at a loss. The damage done to them is truly irreparable. They need Jesus ... badly ... but I’m not even sure how to say that without sounding smarmy.
The people who mutilate children’s bodies like this, and the people who persuade the children to be complicit in it, should hang.
Scripture has something to say about millstones, which seems very appropriate.
I can be as callous as the next person, but you are correct, those two reddit posts are heartbreaking.
Can you imagine how it breaks God’s heart to see people treat each other like that, or to be used as pawns of Satan to destroy lives?
I don’t know how He can stand it.
My two youngest children suffer from an incurable endocrine defect. For my middle child, it resulted in hyperandrogenism and gender dysphonia. The free floating androgens were being recognized as testosterone by the adrenal receptors in her brain. My child did not need hormones to masculinize; it was happening naturally, would continue to happen for the rest of her life, and there was nothing we could do to stop it. When she said her brain was telling her she was a boy, the Endocrinologists (2 teams from two different hospitals) affirmed what was happening to her.
It is a special level of hell watching your child morph from a beautiful little girl into and androgynous looking male.
At 18, my daughter embraced what was happening and transitioned. She paid for her own surgery. We resisted as long as we could, never giving up prayer or hope that God could cure her. When she became an adult, the decisions were on her to make.
Less than 1% of the population suffers from her particular genetic defect and only 10% of those experience her side effects. Her condition is very rare.
The big push to transition kids is doing grave harm to children. Despite being a parent to a trans child and knowing the heartache they go through, I believe anyone encouraging children to do this is evil. If they are truly trans, they will do it on their own as an adult.