“Come Out With Pride Orlando,” an LGBT festival and parade held on Saturday, October 21, with organizers choosing a 12-year-old boy – who identifies as a girl – as Grand Marshal.
Dempsey Jara – born male but living as a girl – is the youngest grand marshal in Orlando Pride’s history. Dempsey’s parents, Jaime and Dennis, rode in the parade car with the young boy.
Dempsey told reporters:
Being transgender is not about a choice. It’s about being true to myself. It’s about embracing who I am even when the world tries to tell me otherwise. It’s about standing tall in my identity even when it’s really hard.
“Come Out With Pride” is one of Florida’s largest LGBT events, drawing over 200,000 attendees, according to event organizers. Pride parties and parades are no longer confined to June. Throughout Florida – and around the world, similar celebrations take place in different cities every month of the year.
The Daily Mail reported on the Jara family in a 2019 story with the dramatic title:
Mother reveals she has been accused of CHILD ABUSE and ‘brainwashing’ for raising her eight-year-old as a transgender girl – but she insists the youngster is happier living as a female (their emphasis).
Jaime told the Mail:
Dempsey has been gender non-conforming since the age of eighteen months old, basically since she was able to express herself. She always gravitated to dolls, dresses and sparkly objects.
The transgender movement claims to go “beyond the binary” of male and female, but it usesrigid boy-girl stereotypes to determine that a child is somehow “trapped in the wrong body.” For example, Dempsey’s mother told The Orlando Sun:
She’s just always gravitated toward girl things, girls’ toys. We didn’t have any of that stuff at home. She has two older brothers. She’d say, “I’m a girl in my heart and my brain.” She’s been on this journey since she was 5 and she’s living her best life.
Those espousing gender ideology actually believe infants are somehow born transgender – even though there is no biological, hormonal or genetic evidence for this. Activists and their allies believe toddlers and preschoolers can convey their “true identity” to others.
The truth is, infants are born male or female – and through normal, healthy development, they come to accept and embrace their bodily identity as a boy or a girl.
Dr. Miriam Grossman recently authored the book Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist’s Guide Out of the Madness. A physician who specializes in pediatrics and child psychiatry, Dr. Grossman describes testimony she gave before the California State Legislature about a bill that mandated teaching children about transgenderism. She stated:
This Bill ignores the principles of normal child development which are that at around age three, a boy knows that he is a boy. He identifies himself as a boy. That’s called gender identity. By age four, the boy should know that he will grow up and become a man. That’s called gender stability. By six, seven at the latest, a child, say a boy, should know that he cannot become a girl even if he wears a dress – that’s called gender permanence.
But sometimes things happen to derail that process; after all, we live in a fallen world.
When Dempsey was only four years old, his parents took him “to a pediatric mental health professional.” The preschooler was diagnosed with “gender dysphoria.”
As licensed counselor Rob Jackson explains, “Early onset gender dysphoria involves someone’s distress over their sex that begins in early childhood, usually between the ages of 2 and 4.” Gender dysphoria doesn’t mean a boy really is the opposite sex; it simply means the boy is confused about his sexual identity and something has disrupted normal mental and psychological development.
It’s important to note, that a collection of studies indicates gender dysphoria is not a permanent condition for most of these young children. The majority grow up to embrace their biological sex.
But the mental health professional did not guide Jaime and Dennis to help their son embrace his true identity – which doesn’t come from thoughts or feelings but from his male body. Dempsey is a boy, made in the image of God. Every cell in his body includes the XY chromosomes which direct his body to develop as male.
Instead, as Jamie explained:
Dennis and I continued to follow Dempsey’s lead, as was advised to us by her therapists. She entered kindergarten using masculine pronouns but started to grow out her hair and wearing feminine accessories to school.
That’s right. The therapist told them to let a four-year-old direct their parenting. So they socially transitioned their son and encouraged a false identity, rather than helping him embrace truth. They even changed Dempsey’s birth certificate to show this gender identity, rather than his true sex.
The family has become outspoken activists, documenting Dempsey’s story on several Instagram accounts and appearing on the Max (formerly HBO Max) drag queen series We’re Here. They’ve opposed Florida legislation that protects women’s sports; safeguards children from lewd sexual performances, including drag shows; bans experimental and dangerous hormones, drugs and surgeries for minors; and keeps teachers from talking with K-3rd grade children about sexual and gender ideology.
This radical activism is why “Come Out With Pride” chose the adolescent as the Grand Marshall for an event that celebrates deep sexual and relational brokenness.
Despite all the accolades and attention, Dempsey and her family claim to be the victims of hate, posting on an Instagram account run by his parents:
It’s not easy to be a constant target of hate, but I remain visible because I want other Trans kids to know there is such #joy in being your authentic self. Thank you, #Orlando, for showering me with so much love! #bewhoyouare.
No, Dempsey, the Daily Citizen doesn’t hate you or your parents. We’re sad that you struggle with sexual identity confusion; angry that your parents – along with gender ideologues and activists – encourage you to believe lies; fighting to keep more children from being victims of gender ideology; and praying that God will set you and your family free from this demonic belief system.
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