As Dietrich Bonhoeffer famously said, “If I sit next to a madman as he drives a car into a group of innocent bystanders, I can’t, as a Christian, simply wait for the catastrophe, then comfort the wounded and bury the dead. I must try to wrestle the steering wheel out of the hands of the driver.”
While Bonhoeffer was talking about stopping Hitler and the Nazis, his statement applies to us today as we combat “gender ideology” and the damage done to children who are irreparably harmed by the catastrophe of “transgender” madness.
It’s time to wrestle the steering wheel from those who sterilize and mutilate children.
The Supreme Court has the opportunity to do this, as the justices hear arguments December 4 in the case United States v. Skrmetti. The court will rule on the constitutionality of Tennessee’s Senate Bill 1, a measure which prohibits medical procedures “enabling a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor’s sex.”
Gender ideology tells children lies about who they are, including: “You may be born into the wrong body,” “Your gender may be different from your sex,” and “Drugs, hormones and surgeries can somehow transform you into the opposite sex.”
We all know that there are two sexes, male and female, and no one can change to the opposite sex. But gender dogma asks us to believe that what’s in a person’s head trumps biological truth.
These beliefs are a flight into unreality and fantasy.
Dr. Paul McHugh, the former director of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, used this strong language in a well-known 2004 article published in First Things. He called these beliefs a “fabrication, both surgical and social.”
McHugh stated, “We psychiatrists have been distracted from studying the causes and natures” of sexual confusion, and he concluded:
Many state legislatures have decided it’s time to stop collaborating with madness, and they’ve wrestled the steering wheel away from those who harm children and passing laws to safeguard minors.
Tennessee passed SB 1 in February 2023, but LGBT activists and allies, including the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Tennessee and Lambda Legal sued to block the law just two months later.
The Biden administration filed suit against the legislation as well, and “the Supreme Court consolidated the ACLU & Biden’s US DOJ into one case against Tennessee Attorney General, Jonathan Skrmetti,” as political commentator, world-renowned DEI instructor and children’s author Matt Walsh explains.
Many legislators, conservative organizations, and Christian individuals and groups were instrumental in drafting and passing SB 1, but Walsh played a key role in fostering support for the bill.
In 2022, Walsh announced on X that he and his team had investigated the Vanderbilt transgender clinic, posting:
BREAKING: My team and I have been investigating the transgender clinic at Vanderbilt here in Nashville. Vanderbilt drugs, chemically castrates, and performs double mastectomies on minors. But it gets worse. Here is what we found. Let’s start at the beginning.
In a lengthy thread, Walsh said Vanderbilt’s Dr. Shayne Taylor “convinced Nashville to get into the gender transition game.” In a video-taped talk, the doctor stated that transgender procedures where “ a ‘big money maker,’ especially because the surgeries require a lot of “follow ups.”
Walsh demonstrated that the clinic offered “Trans Buddies” to walk people through the medical process, and these Buddies were “available to children, too.” The clinic advertised “lots of ‘services’ available to children, including chemical castration.”
One video showed that the clinic “will give and have given irreversible hormone drugs to children as young as 13,” while another video presentation explained that “plastic surgeon Julien Winocour and Physician’s Assistant Shalyn Vanderbloemen – will happily perform double mastectomies on adolescent girls.”
After these revelations, Walsh said:
Explaining the significance of the case, he wrote:
Along with other pro-children activists, Walsh will be speaking at a Stop the Harm rally on the steps of the Supreme Court on December 4, from 8:00 to 12:30. Representatives from The Family Foundation, a Focus on the Family-affiliated family policy council, will also be in attendance.
The more we learn about so-called gender-affirming care for minors, the more we understand the devastating affects on young, growing bodies and minds. Such procedures are experimental and have great risks and harms,
A 2023 Washington Post-KFF poll found that “a majority of Americans oppose access to puberty blockers [68%] and hormone treatments [58%] for children and teenagers.”
Sex is biologically determined, and “gender” is not “assigned” at birth. Instead of mutilating healthy bodies, parents, clinicians and concerned citizens should help children embrace their God-given sex.
Let’s pray the court agrees with Tennessee – and most of our country – and stops the gender madness.
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