The Truth in Print Vol. 22 Issue 6, July 2016
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The Transgender Attack
Things move quickly
once decrees are issued from those at the top. The following article appeared
in The Sun, our local newspaper for the month of May. It depicts the spiritual
as well physical dangers involved in the recent transgender directive.
Surely Not Shameless ~
the Transgender Directive
The “I think I
identify with transgender” directive is much talked about in this town, and
with great concern from parents for the moral well-being, as well as the safety
of their daughters and sons in school and elsewhere. This has nothing to do
with race or civil rights! It is correctly defined as immoral and the further
promotion of perversion in our society. When Jesus spoke of evil things that
come from within and defile He mentioned evil thoughts along with
lasciviousness or lewdness (Mark 7:20-23). The evil thoughts are found in the
mind – the desire to say “I identify with” transgender and thus be able to plan
wicked deeds, and that also upon the innocent and unsuspecting is not missing
in this picture. People know this and thus are of necessity genuinely concerned
for their children – both boys and girls. “Lewdness” by its very definition is
unbridled lust exhibiting wanton, shameless behavior and this is greatly
involved. It is lewdness when some would have, and even prefer, school girls
and boys undressing and showering together.
Of course, this shameless proposal is the outgrowth of the promotion of
LGBT in our society. Politically Correct retorts like: “Who are you to judge?”;
“You are so negative”; “You are a hate monger”; “You don’t love”; “You are a
racist” – are what fostered this. Those
who will not look into God’s Word in order to know and practice the truth spout
these while suppressing the Truth in ungodliness (cf. I Cor. 6:9; Rom. 1:18,
26-27).
I recently
submitted another article for the month of June. Again I believe the article
can be easily read and the immoralities involved in both mind and body
understood. Here it is.
Surely Not Living a Lie
~ the Transgender Directive #2
In our last article
we stated that the “I think I identify with transgender” bathroom and more
directive is a great concern of parents for the moral well-being, as well as
the safety of their daughters and sons in school and elsewhere. It is rightly
viewed as shameless behavior that is a detriment to our public’s peace and
welfare. For sure this saying I prefer being identified as a member of a gender
you are not born with will make its move for churches --- to the degree that it
may well be accepted in many because of their lack of respect for scriptural
authority and failure to despise wickedness and immorality (cf. Rom.
1:28-32,12:9; I Cor. 6:9-10).
True Christians
stand against those who desire to physically abuse others, but they will not
encourage or justify people in their immoral practices. Paul’s list of
immoralities in Col. 3:5 includes fornication, uncleanness or the impurity of
lustful profligate living including the mind and motives, inordinate affections
or depraved passions in the mind, and evil desire i.e. the longing or craving
for what is forbidden. He says, “For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh
on the children of disobedience: In the which ye also walked some time, when ye
lived in them” (Col. 3:6-7). This is not about bathrooms it is about living a
lie –- they had at one time walked in these when they lived in them. You lie
when you say a man is a woman or vice versa (cf. Rev. 21:8). That lie is an
offense against the truth about the two sexes (Gen. 1:27; Matt. 19:4-6).
I said that things
move quickly and especially so when the media’s bias is presenting the kind of
things that promote LGBT. From the little boy who wants to be a little girl or
vice versa, to the self-proclaimed high school lesbian who wants to wear a suit
to the prom but is denied, and on to the high school boy who chooses the gender
he is not and competed in “girls track” in Alaska — the basis for the
president’s decree is blasted out — always with a parent or parents being all out
for whatever the child wants to be.
Take for example
Nattaphon Wangyot who was shown recently racing with females at his Alaska
track meet. It was reported that he was born with a full set of male genitalia,
but identifies as female. He is quoted as saying “I am a girl born in a boy’s
body.”
Evidently he was
awarded third place in the 200 meter dash (Class 3A) for girls’ sprints at the
Alaska State Finals, and fifth in the 100. He is also known as Kathleen “Ice”.
He was shown with a big grin — it was the I identify with female and I can
compete in track with the girls and I beat some of them grin. Were girls
parents outraged as a biological male competed and beat girls? Yes! Is it fair
to the girl who was eliminated by him? Where are the women’s rights advocates
when girls really need them? But the guidelines are said to be necessary for
the rights, comfort and safety of the one claiming “transgender.” What about
others rights and comfort?
It is not a correct
picture of life as it should be folks — this concept of a trans-athlete at high
school level. He (Kathleen “Ice”) is even quoted as giving the girls’ parents
advice on face book by saying: “If your kids have attitude and practice enough
it gonna be more fun.” Does that sound sort of arrogant to you? Really now.
Well of course, he is the one full of advice to the parents of the girls.
So is it “inclusion”
or really “exclusion”? One mother says back to him, as quoted, concerning her
own daughter: “Obviously she is at a disadvantage to you because she was not
born with the physical attributes you were as a male. It’s 100% science. Men
are physically different than females.” She said, “Today it’s one transgender
athlete. Tomorrow it could be half the field.”
And here’s that parental
point again. His own mother is quoted as saying: “You don’t have to be afraid.
If you are transgender, you should be yourself. There’s nothing wrong. You’re
still human. You’re a good person.”
You see a lot here.
You see the degree to which school systems have been inundated with political
correctness. High school students’ minds have been affected by political
correctness — if nothing else the blatant fear of being labeled as having a
phobia or being full of hate. I saw what I’d consider the “tolerantly” holding
some back I’m not a trans-phobic quote in this girls remark: “I’m glad that
this person is comfortable with who they are and they’re able to be happy in
who they are, but I don’t think it’s competitively completely 100-percent
fair.”
These are young minds and notice the
reference to political correctness from this junior: “I don’t know what’s
politically correct to say, but in my opinion, your gender is what you’re born
with. It’s the DNA. Genetically a guy has more muscle mass than a girl, and if
he’s racing against a girl, he may have an advantage.”
What one girl’s
mother said was his participation was “not fair and it is not right for our
female athletes.” “We have a responsibility to protect our girls that have
worked really hard, that are working towards college scholarships” she is
quoted as saying.
I believe parents
understand all too well that kids can be so influenced by political correctness
that they can hesitate to call things as they really are, and speak truthfully,
lest be labeled a bigot or now trans-phobic. Perhaps as government funded
institutions compete for the tape of fairness they can have Boys, Girls and
then let those claiming the gender they were not born with have separate
Trans-Contests for scholarships now. Would that be respectful enough!
One report said:
“Wangyot explained that things are not as easy as people think, and said that
he faces difficulties. He told the Chilkat Valley News ‘…It's not easy. It's
not like I wake up and 'OK, I'm a girl right now.’” Look at that blunder, will
you!
Please compare that
with the reports that say he (Kathleen “Ice”) showers alone while a coach
guards, uses a single-occupancy bathroom, and takes female hormones and other
drugs to suppress testosterone levels. Heed the warnings! Remember now that
some would actually desire that it goes further than this — it is lewdness when
some would have, and even prefer, school girls and boys undressing and
showering together.
And compare these
with the principal, Rene Martin, being quoted as saying “Everybody doesn’t
understand, and that’s OK.” “But you still have to show respect, and we work
together and we talk about things and we try to make it respectful for
everybody.” Is the principal’s idea of being “respectful” really being fair for
everybody? Or has it brought confusion?
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