Posted on 02/17/2016 10:05:56 AM PST by wagglebee
February 17, 2016 (DailySignal) -- When a 9-year-old boy who identifies as Stormi, a transgender girl, started selling Girl Scout cookies, one neighbor was not amused, according to Buzzfeed.
The neighbor rebuffed him, reportedly saying, “Nobody wants to buy Girl Scout cookies from a boy in a dress.”
The neighbor is being called transphobic—but perhaps the neighbor thought he was being pranked by a boy and reacted accordingly. Not everyone assumes that a boy in a dress selling Girl Scout cookies is transgender.
Stormi looked like a boy to the neighbor because he really is a boy. Transgender people may deceive themselves, but they do not deceive others.
Life in society is not some fantasy world where a boy should pretend he has magically transformed himself into a girl simply by uttering the words “I am a girl” and changing how he presents himself.
The people who strongly object to the honest reaction from a man saying, “Nobody wants to buy Girl Scout cookies from a boy in a dress” are perhaps gender-phobic, rejecting and ridiculing the reality of male and female genders.
The people who encourage very young kids to act out, switch genders, and live a life of pretend need to understand that Stormi could be suffering from a dissociative disorder, just as happened with me. My feelings of not wanting to be a boy started in early childhood as result of cross-dressing at the hands of my grandma.
Stormi could be in need of psychotherapy, not a dress.
Caregivers all too often collaborate with a mental disorder instead of treating it. Telling a psychologically troubled boy he has changed genders is not compassion, but can become reckless parenting. By withholding psychotherapy, parents could be abusing the kid.
Living in a self-made gender fantasy world void of reality is not psychologically or emotionally healthy.
I know that to be true. I was transgender kid at the age of 4. For decades, as I tried to live in my male birth gender, the feelings of being a woman only grew stronger.
I sought help from a renowned gender specialist who told me that mine was a clear-cut case of gender dysphoria—strong, persistent feelings of identification with the opposite gender and discomfort with one’s own assigned sex. He said the only way to get relief was to surgically change genders.
I underwent gender reassignment surgery at 42 years of age after cross-dressing for most of my life.
I lived as a transgender, Laura Jensen, female, for eight years. While studying psychology in a university program, I discovered that trans kids most often are suffering from a variety of disorders, starting with depression—the result of personal loss, broken families, sexual abuse, and unstable homes. Deep depression leads kids to want to be someone other than who they are.
That information sure resonated with me.
Finally, I had discovered the madness of the transgender life. It is a fabrication born of mental disorders.
I only wish that when I went to the gender counselor for help he would have told me I couldn’t really change genders, that it is biologically impossible. Instead, he approved me for gender reassignment surgery, a surgery that, if I had been provided proper psychotherapy, would never have been necessary or appropriate.
The transgender life is often the direct result of early childhood difficulty or trauma. Assisting a young child into the fabricated ideology of a transgender life is not helping the child sort out what is real and what is fiction.
The likelihood that the child known as Stormi is suffering from separation anxiety or some other psychological disorder cannot be ignored. Stormi is living in a foster home. While it may be safe and necessary, foster care is intended to separate the child from the birth parent. This can lead to psychological disorders like separation anxiety disorder.
Separation anxiety occurs as the result of loss or separation from the birth parent. Disruption in a child’s home environment can lead to stress, depression, and anxiety. Living in a foster home even under the best conditions can be stressful to a young person.
Separation anxiety disorder and other psychological disorders can masquerade as gender dysphoria, leading caregivers and medical practitioners to misdiagnose and not provide proper or effective psychotherapies.
Stormi’s life will evolve as maturity unfolds. Most likely in 15 or 20 years, reality will set in that he really never changed genders. This is often a turning point where the trans life is not looking as good as it once did.
Thankfully, like me, many transgender persons return to the gender they once shed. Slowly they restore the life that was lost.
The three men who came up with the idea of changing boys into girls and making transgenders, Alfred Kinsey, Harry Benjamin, and John Money, were pedophilia advocates. (For more of the history, see “Sex Change” Surgery: What Bruce Jenner, Diane Sawyer, and You Should Know.)
The neighbor man was correct about one thing: The Girl Scout at his door was really a boy in a dress—just like I was as a young boy who thought I was a girl.
Beautiful song, thank you for sharing.
I pray that, if it is a fit medium, the good Lord will send blessings through it to a lot of people. My buddy Ronnie has sent his ASCAP contacts a hundred copies as they requested, and these may slowly be coming out on Christian radio as test plays. BMI was underwhelmed, but I have found they aren’t as interested in deep Christian themes. They like the flashy and superficial more. But we don’t need flashy and superficial. We need deep.
I attempted, through the words of this song, to put attention as squarely as I could on where it needs to be. Without an accurate context for the actors and the scene, we can’t have a credible story, and that goes for gospel pitches too. Gospel invites the listener to become part of a particular story. It helps to that end if the story can be believed. Which is why the bible says to give an account, with meekness and respect, for the hope that is within us.
In a story like this, most of the time there is a grievous heartache at the bottom of it, a spiritual starvation that was met in a bizarre fashion, as the prodigal son found himself craving the pig food.
The cure, in its largest and best sense, entails feeding again on the love of God. This opens up panoramas of expression and nurture which give a holy scope to capacities that had found no fit role in the world.
I’m not even sure that more of this is going on in the modern day, as much as it is not hidden from public view in the modern day. That there have always been people like this, but a combination of shame and religious aspiration kept them from getting flagrant about it, and the social support was usually there if they wanted to at least walk through what moderns are calling their “cis” role.
I pray that your acquaintance finds God, or rather that God finds him. And that with this, your acquaintance discovers a new universe of possibilities for himself.
And the happiness is superficial in situations like this, but to get a denouement of the story, you can’t just pound on the person and hound him that his happiness is superficial. Then he may take a delight in defying you, complicating the story and distracting from the larger issue. Instead, wait and pray till something comes to a head. Asking a blessing upon him (privately if necessary, so as not to be misunderstood as to meaning) can also play a role in God steering him to a realization that he has to seek something better than what he has been involved in.
When you are played on KLove or another Christian station, please do let us know! I’ll be listening.
I’ll try to inquire if he gets feedback. I get the picture that this kind of blindly goes out the door to promoters, but eventually we would start hearing about it. In the meantime the Soundcloud site has it, though not in full WAV fidelity.
I have long contended that gender issues are a symptom of anxiety/depression/abuse; rarely the primary pathology.
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