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This might be unsettling, it should be unsettling, but hiding from reality does not alter the truth or make evil shrink and go away. What is being taught, what is taking place among America’s children, what is being done to America’s children is an abomination. A grave sin. And judgments are forthcoming. Make no mistake. Silence is not golden. Silence will not make this go away.
It is as a result of silence, denial, disbelief, refusal to confront the reality that we all now find ourselves in the place, in the vile, perverted, lost, and sinful place we are. If so-called Christians, so-called “good people” had paid attention, spoken up, refused to look the other way, be otherwise involved, be caught up in selfish pursuits and in a constant state of denial that things could never get as they truly are now? Living pretend lives rather than lives in reality? We would not be in the state of how things truly are now! Imagine that?
Children are being brainwashed. Indoctrinated by the ministers of Satan. Let’s not mince words. It isn’t “liberalism” and the media responsible for all of this as almost every professed Christian alludes to. It’s evil. It’s sin. It’s perversion. It’s abomination. It’s the work of the devil and his ministers here on earth carrying out the confusion, the rebellion, the lies. Anything to go against God, to go against the truth, to go against righteousness! Children are being lied to, indoctrinated, and mutilated. All to appease and please evil. To please the devil. NOT to please democrats or liberals. To please evil! Let’s stop the euphemisms and stop stopping short as we invariably do stuck in this realm, in worldly thinking and terminology and going no further. Are you truly a Christian? Then think — THINK and SPEAK and WRITE in Christian terms! In a Christian, Biblical manner!
And contrary to the worldly viewpoints expressed in the article below? These children, all the people below do NOT need mental health services. They all need God. They all need the truth of the Scriptures. They all need to address their SPIRITUAL selves more, so much more than their physical selves. To stop listening to all the euphemisms, lies, confusion of the world and to be still and listen to God. Listen to Jesus. Listen to the Holy Spirit. Listen to the word of God and allow it to work in their life for the only true transformation they need in this life which determines their eternity. Listen to the lies and recognize sin. Recognize SIN. And repent. And turn to God. Turn to the Lord. THAT is the only remedy for any and every ill — and ESPECIALLY the matter at hand in this particular article and discussion.
It isn’t “liberal activists.” It’s the minions, the ministers of Satan. It’s the people who are slaves in bondage to the darkness and evil of this world. TRANSCENDING worldly politics or a certain political party. Wake up. Stop stopping short and go to the root. In all things. Biblically. Without fear. Without hesitation. Without remorse. Judging wisely, discerning wisely as we are supposed to do. Standing boldly for the faith in the full armour of God. Not being concerned with pleasing, appeasing anything or anyone of this passing world.
Ken Pullen, administrator, A Crooked Path
Liberal Activists Rebrand Sex Changes As ‘Gender-Affirming Medical Care’ To Bully State Officials Into Allowing The Mutilation Of Children
June 14, 2021
By Mary Margaret Olohan
Reprinted from The Daily Caller
- Liberal activists are rebranding sex-change surgeries as “gender-affirming medical care,” even when discussing these procedures for children. Former transgender people and conservative activists told the Daily Caller News Foundation that this is a deliberate effort to normalize the surgeries and make them more accessible to children.
- “This liberal obsession is destroying an entire generation,” a former transgender woman said. “And they don’t care.”
- The terminology many media outlets use in reporting on lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, and transgender issues conforms to the Homosexual & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)’s style guide for reporters, which warns that “journalists should avoid overemphasizing the role of surgeries in the transition process.”
Liberal activists are rebranding sex-change surgeries as “gender-affirming medical care,” even when discussing these procedures for children. Former transgender people and conservative activists told the Daily Caller News Foundation that this is a deliberate effort to normalize the surgeries and make them more accessible to children.
Lawmakers have proposed at least 114 bills related to transgender issues as of June 2, according to the lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, and queer activism organization GLAAD. Both Arkansas and Tennessee have passed laws restricting sex-change surgeries or procedures for minors: Arkansas banned the surgeries and procedures for minors, despite the governor’s veto, and Tennessee banned ethically fraught hormone treatment for children who had not yet reached puberty.
Most media framing of these bills takes an activist approach rather than reporting the bills straightforwardly. Outlets use vague phrases like “gender-affirming medical care” or “transgender affirming medical care” instead of saying sex-change surgery or gender transition surgery.
“They keep rebranding the gender change process,” said former transgender woman Walt Heyer, who now runs the website Sex Change Regret. “First it was ‘sex change,’ then it was ‘gender reassignment.’ They want to make this not look like the child abuse it really is and now want to sell you and everyone else that it’s ‘gender-affirming medical care.’”
“This liberal obsession is destroying an entire generation,” Heyer added. “And they don’t care.” (RELATED: Tennessee Becomes Second State To Ban Transgender Hormone Treatments Before Puberty)
The DCNF reached out to multiple progressive activism organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), and GLAAD, for insight into why activists and media discuss sex-change surgeries in this way. GLAAD and the ACLU did not offer perspective, but the HRC directed the DCNF to their media guide and highlighted that the American Academy of Pediatrics has endorsed gender-affirming care.
Sex Changes For Minors Or ‘Gender Affirming Medical Care’
When Arkansas passed the “Save Adolescents From Experimentation Act” (SAFE) banning sex-change procedures and surgeries for minors, most media outlets described the legislation using phrases like “gender-affirming care” and “life-saving care.” (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: DeSantis Says He Would Ban Trans Surgeries For Minors)
“Arkansas passes bill to ban gender-affirming care for trans youth,” NBC News headlined its story, while Yahoo News similarly described the bill as one that banned “access to gender-affirming care for transgender residents who are minors,” and CNN referred to the surgeries as “gender-affirming ‘procedures’ for transgender people under age 18.”
The Washington Post reported the SAFE Act restricts “access to medical treatments for transgender children,” calling the legislation “part of a growing effort by politicians to restrict the rights of transgender young people across America.”
This media trend has continued throughout the discussion of sex-change procedures and surgeries for children, such as in a May CBS News segment that refers to “gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth” regarding Texas legislation. Correspondent Lesley Stahl even used the phrase in a 60 Minutes segment criticized for its frank discussion of how easy it is to obtain the irreversible sex-change surgeries.
The New York Times referred to “gender-affirming or transition-related medical care” in a Sunday piece on a Brooklyn, New York, transgender rally.
The language is also used by smaller outlets like The Dallas Morning News, The Texas Tribune, and The Salt Lake Tribune. (RELATED: ‘I Still Felt Incomplete’: Detransitioned Men, Women Des
Activist Charlotte Clymer used the phrase when praising Iran as a supporter of transgender rights last week, tweeting, “Iran literally pays for transgender-affirming medical care with state funds,” though Iran has a documented record of forcing lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, and transgender persons into sex-change surgery against their will and often punishes homosexuality with death. Like Clymer, former President Barack Obama’s state department also referred to Iran’s sex change surgeries as “gender confirmation surgery.”
As recently as Monday, Popular Information reporter Judd Legum described transgender bills as “legislation that would criminalize providing gender-affirming medical care to adults and children.”
Legum first incorrectly told the DCNF Monday that the bills he referenced, such as Texas’ Senate Bill 1646, had nothing to do with sex-change surgeries. He then defended his characterization of the bills as “100% accurate,” saying, “I don’t have to follow the Daily Caller style guide.”
The issue has gained national prominence over the past couple of years since events like the case of James Younger, a 7-year-old whose mother planned to transition him to a girl despite his father’s objections. Author and researcher Abigail Shrier ignited global discussion through her 2020 book on concerning spikes in transgenderism among teenage girls who formerly displayed feminine traits and tendencies.
Transgender journalist and physics teacher Debbie Hayton, who believes it is “impossible to change sex,” explained to the DCNF that use of the phrase “gender-affirming medical care” over “sex change surgery: hinges on the idea that the surgery isn’t actively changing a person but is instead helping their mind align with their body.
“Sex change surgery implies active treatment to change something,” Hayton said. “Gender affirming surgery implies treatment to restore the existing situation.”
American Principles Project President Terry Schilling told the DCNF that this use of language is “an organized and deliberate effort.”
“Woke activists need to use euphemisms to describe the horrible policies they support because they are so incredibly unpopular with the American people,” Schilling said. “They say things like ‘reproductive care’ as a substitute for late-term abortion, ‘equity’ instead of state-sanctioned racism, or ‘gender-affirming medical care’ instead of sex changes for kids, hoping no one will call them on it.”
The media, Schilling warned, is “all too willing to go along with the ruse because the newsrooms are full of woke activists.”
What Is Gender Affirming Medical Care?
Medical professionals who undertake a child’s a sex change usually begin with puberty blockers such as the gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH), which temporarily suppresses puberty for the child, according to the Mayo Clinic.
For biological males, the puberty blockers will decrease face and body hair growth, prevent the voice from deepening, and limit genitalia growth, according to Mayo Clinic, and for biological females, the puberty blockers will limit or stop menstruation and the development of the breasts.
The Endocrine Society recommends that clinicians begin puberty blockers “after girls and boys first exhibit physical changes of puberty,” usually around 11-years-old.
A U.K. judge ruled in December 2020 that it is “highly unlikely that a child aged 13 or under would be competent to give consent to the administration of puberty blockers,” adding that “it is doubtful that a child aged 14 or 15 could understand and weigh the long-term risks and consequences of the administration of puberty blockers.”
Transgender advocates “maintain that “the suppression of puberty using GnRHa is a reversible phase of treatment” and that puberty blockers can be considered “‘buying time’ to allow for an open exploration of the SR [sex reassignment] wish.” But other experts have called puberty blockers a “momentous step in the dark,” wrote Dr. Jonathan Wells, a senior fellow at the Center for Science and Culture.
Dr. Wells cited studies showing that almost all children who go on puberty blockers proceed to take cross-sex hormones, which is the next step in the sex-change process. Cross-sex hormones will cause the individual to develop more masculine or feminine secondary sex characteristics, according to Mayo Clinic.
The Endocrine Society recommends that children “who fulfill eligibility for gender reassignment” begin cross-sex hormone therapy at age 16, but notes that there may be “compelling reasons” to begin cross-sex hormone treatment earlier, even though there are limited studies on cross-sex hormone treatment administered to children younger than 13 or 14.
Wells wrote that “since almost all children who start on them go on to take cross-sex hormones, it seems that the ‘completely reversible’ claim is exaggerated.”
It would more truthful, Wells said, to tell parents and children: “We can give you medicine that will block changes in puberty that you might find disturbing. According to the evidence, if you don’t take the medicine there is at least a three out of four chance that you will grow up happy with the body you have. On the other hand, once you start taking the medicine there is a 98 percent chance that you will go on to take cross-sex hormones. Those hormones will probably make you sterile, and you may have to take them for the rest of your life.”
The Endocrine Society suggests that young people wait until 18 to obtain sex-change surgery, though in some countries the age minimum is 16.
A Transgender Style Guide?
The terminology many media outlets use in reporting on lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, and queer issues conforms to progressive activist style guides, such as the Homosexual & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)’s style guide for reporters.
GLAAD boasts of promoting “accurate, inclusive stories and messages in media outlets that increase and enhance the representation of lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, and queer people,” highlighting that the Associated Press, Reuters, and The New York Times have specific lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, and queer style requirements. (RELATED: Here Are The States That Want To Ban Transgender Surgeries For Minors)
“GLAAD has learned a lot since its founding in 1985 about the media’s role in changing hearts and minds,” the organization’s website said. “GLAAD demonstrated not only media’s powerful influence—impacting how people treat others, how they vote, and their daily decisions—but our own authoritative potential to lead the conversation, reshape the narrative, and ultimately, change the culture.”
GLAAD’s guide encourages reporters to avoid the phrase “sex change operation” and adds in bold that “journalists should avoid overemphasizing the role of surgeries in the transition process.” GLAAD did not respond to a request for comment explaining this statement.
The HRC’s style guide also offers suggestions to reporters on how to discuss this topic.
“Transition is a process that some transgender people undergo when they decide to live as the gender with which they identify, rather than the one they were assigned at birth,” the HRC style guide said. “A transgender person transitioning is not ‘becoming’ a man or a woman; they are starting to live openly as their true gender.
“Transitioning can include medical components such as hormone therapy and surgery. However, not every transition involves medical interventions,” the style guide said.
APP’s President Terry Schilling suggested that conservatives should respond to this use of language and media by rejecting “the Left’s framing.”
“Tell the truth about what’s happening,” he said. “And do what’s necessary to protect these kids — pass legislation that would ban these horrific procedures, and create private rights of action for all these kids who have been harmed by these doctors, industries, and institutions that pushed them into genital mutilation, sterilization, and even worse.”
“The vast majority of Americans agree that pushing sex changes on children is crazy, so politicians need to be willing to stand up for these kids and do the right thing,” he added.
Former Transgender People Weigh In
Partners for Ethical Care co-founder Erin Brewer said that she finds these descriptions “very concerning,” adding that even the World Professional Association of Transgender Health guidelines warn “that the vast majority of children will have their gender dysphoria resolved if they progress naturally through puberty.”
Brewer, who has written a book describing her experiences as a child who identified as transgender but did not go through any type of hormone therapy or procedures, told the DCNF that children often develop gender dysphoria as a result of underlying issues, such as sexual assault. (RELATED: ‘Woke’ Pressure ‘Strengthened’ DeSantis Decision To Ban Biological Males From Women’s Sports, Spox Says)
“These kids need mental health services to help resolve the underlying issues, not medical interventions that damage their healthy body,” she said. “These interventions are the antithesis of medical care, they damage a child’s healthy body and give a child the message that they are inherently flawed and the self-hatred they have for their body is justified. ”
“There is no research that supports medically transing a child,” she added, “However, there is ample evidence that shows these interventions increase self-harm and suicidality. It is unconscionable that activists are trying to rebrand these harmful practices in order to validate harming vulnerable children.”
De-transitioner Billy Burleigh told the DCNF that gender identity-related distress “has been controversial for decades, and with each step through history, the effort has been to make it more normalized and acceptable.” (RELATED: Here’s Why Noem Fought South Dakota’s Bill Banning Biological Males From Women’s Sports)
“And this step, where activists are trying to rebrand sex changes as ‘gender-affirming medical care’ rather than ‘sex changes’ appears to be another effort, another step to make gender identity distress not only as more normal and acceptable but as an ailment that requires medical intervention, medical treatment,” he added.
Burleigh stressed that instead of treating outward symptoms of gender identity distress, families and mental health professionals should help “uncover and work through the underlying issues and problems.” The solutions presented by lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, and queer activists, he said, cause him to stop and ask himself “Is the lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, and queer community, and our government, trying to help individuals overcome problems and improve their health, or are they pushing an agenda?”
“When I was a small boy, I would have run down the road of gender change,” he said. “In my nightly prayers I asked God to change me into a girl before I would wake up. I made this happen (changed my gender presentation – we can not change our gender) as an adult and presented as a woman for 7 years.
“I had so many underlying issues that I had to deal with later in life – these issues manifested in me to identify as a girl, and I convinced my therapists that I was in the wrong body (because I fully believed this),” he said. “I have met transgender people and, in my conversations, we all have, or have had, underlying issues, such as sexual abuse, that had not been addressed.”
He concluded: “Gender affirming therapy, I believe, does more long term harm than good.”
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