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The following interview with Ryan T. Anderson, Ph.D, was conducted by The Christian Post. To read the full interview on the Daily Signal, click here.
“It’s the children who are now leading us,” the director of mental health for the Child and Adolescent Gender Center at the University of California, San Francisco said in an interview with The Washington Post. The Child and Adolescent Gender Center treats children as young as 3. Have we become so numb as a country and as a people to not see anything wrong [with] this scenario?
I cite that quote in my book. It’s truly amazing. It entirely ignores the reality that children need assistance in the difficult process of sexual maturation. They need parents.
As new gender ideologies are promoted throughout America, the lies will impact not only those who suffer from gender dysphoria, but all children who need to mature in their self-understanding as a boy or girl, man or woman, a potential husband or wife, father or mother.
We should be tolerant—indeed, loving—toward those who struggle with their gender identity, but also be aware of the harm done to the common good, particularly to children, when transgender identity is normalized.
Transgender activists are not merely asking for tolerance or kindness. They are demanding affirmation, not just from adults but from children and adolescents who are already challenged by the process of sexual development.
In a culture where transgender identities are not only affirmed but celebrated, everyone will be compelled to construct their own gender identity, unaided by a common understanding of sex differences and why they matter.
To read the full interview on the Daily Signal, click here.
LaraFebruary 11, 2018
The Lord has provided us all an anchor in giving us this line in The Proclamation to the Family “Gender is an essential characteristic of individual premortal, mortal and eternal identity and purpose.” I thank our Father in Heaven for this succinct truth.
DiannaFebruary 9, 2018
I feel like gender is not as black and white as we make it out to be. After all, we know that hermaphrodites have real physiological differences that make their gender identification very confusing. I have to believe that there is a huge scale between being all Male/Female to being hermaphrodites. There are quite possibly a lot of people that are not all the way to the point of being hermaphrodites but have real genetic qualities that can make their gender identity confusing. I have to think it is not just “in their head”. Having said that I do not think anyone who doesn’t conform to the black and white expectation of gender identity is a scourge or is doing harm to the general good. I believe how we view and treat them determines whether it is harmful or not to the common good of society.