Protecting the Sexual Development of Children and Young People
by Rick Plasterer, Juicy Ecumenism:
An earlier article late last year discussed the sex (or gender) “transitioning” of minors, and the grave threat this poses to health and to parental authority. The same topic was discussed at the Family Research Council’s recent PrayVoteStand Summit, on October 8. Joseph Backholm, Senior Fellow for Biblical Worldview at FRC discussed this severe problem with a panel consisting of Brenton Netz, a parent who is fighting a legal battle to prevent his son from being given gender transition hormones and treatments, Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge, who is defending a state law against “gender transitioning” of minors in court, and Brandon Showalter, a journalist with the Christian Post who focuses on “the intersection of faith and public life.”
Backholm observed that a recent Gallup poll determined that “1.8% of ‘Gen Z’ identifies as transgender.” This is nine times greater than just “a couple of years ago.” Many “Western countries have seen a 1000% – 5000% increase in mostly white teenage females seeking treatment from gender clinics and psychologists.”
First, Netz related his experience with his son, Miles, who claimed in counseling sessions that his father was unaware of that his gender identity was lesbian, with his “earliest memories of being a girl” as being when he was three years old. Earlier, he had been diagnosed with autism at age four, and demonstrated an obsessive personality. He was treated at a gender clinic by an LGBT therapist who believes it is his job to “re-parent” children. Netz said that the therapist “meticulously manipulated” his son to believe that he was “a transgender girl, and lesbian,” and discussed with him the possibility of administering “irreversible hormones and surgical options.” He said that the belief of his son, who is indeed autistic, that he is a “transgender lesbian” could not possibly be his son’s spontaneous belief, but was essentially engineered by the adults who counseled him. Counselors also examined his son to determine the stage of puberty he might be at, in order to determine if cross sex hormones should be given. He said that “the hospital health care system along with the family courts have repeatedly violated my parental rights.” He believes that “these institutions have been steadily corrupted by the postmodern gender ideology.”
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