Children are being indoctrinated over gender – they should find identity in Christ

Mar 15, 2018 by

by David Robertson, The Scotsman:

The mother on the other end of the phone was ­distraught. Impeccably liberal, her whole world had been turned upside down by the news that her teenage son had announced – “Mum, I’m a girl.”

The mother, who in theory had all the ‘right’ views on transgender, was upset because her son, who suffers from depression, had seen a school counsellor who suggested that perhaps the depression was caused by him being trapped in the wrong body.

When our MSPs vote after the latest Scottish government ‘consultation’ (on transgender) they need to bear in mind that this is not about theory but real people. It may be that with the best of intentions, the proposed ‘self-identification’ ends up doing more harm than good. There are three models offered for the legal recognition of transgender people – the treatment model, the assessment model and the proposal of the Scottish government, the self-declaration model.

The latter is not quite as simple as just declaring that you are another gender. There are three criteria that need to be met – those applying need to be applying of their own free will; they need to understand the consequences of obtaining legal gender recognition; and they must intend to live in their acquired gender until death. How these criteria are to be assessed with any degree of accuracy is, to say the least, problematic.

What is the problem with this? It is all based upon an unproven and ­damaging political philosophy – queer theory’s belief that ­gender is a social construct that has little if anything to do with biology. According to this theory, children are not born male or female, they are ‘assigned’ their gender and the ­people doing the assignation may have got it wrong!

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