That headline ought to ruffle a few feathers.
And yet, let’s analyze the truth. Putting hormones in a body that are not natural has consequences. We’ve known for many decades that men who take testosterone are prone to violence. We know our estrogen cycles cause us to be emotional, even irrational at times. But to put cross sex hormones in a body, and not expect consequences, is foolishness.
Here’s the latest trans shooting:
There are Reddit posts by this teen at age 15 writing of his beginning hormones and finding anime. His family is a big hunting family.
Many of the posts are radicalizing. It doesn’t matter what actual people said to him, he was told online how he should hate everyone that disagree with him.
Before you blame parental rejection, this is his mother:
At some point, we have to face the truth. When we prop up mental illness, instead of helping people accept who they are made in the image of God, it has severe consequences.
It is not loving to feed delusions. Love is truth. Love is not love, that’s a circular argument with no definition. God defines love because He created us. God doesn’t make mistakes that need corrected by mutilating genitals, taking hormones causing high BP, heart disease, bone loss, and behavioral changes.