When I was a kid, I was odd. I didn’t have a Dad growing up, so I didn’t know a lot of “man code.” I had a basketball coach purposefully hit me in the face with a basketball. I had nosebleeds for the next 20 years. In high school, I had a teacher tell my Mom I was “effeminate.” I didn’t feel that way. And oddly enough, most of the time I was bullied in school? Was by girls.
Today a counselor or teacher would’ve come beside me, convinced me I was in the wrong body, etc., and I would’ve been trans. Whatever gender dysphoria I might’ve had, I came to terms with my body by the time I was 18.
The rest of this is going to be out of order as far as my timeline. Let’s make God’s argument. In the beginning ”God made man, male and female he made them, and blessed them,” We can’t go against God’s design. Here’s why. Genetics. Either a person has X X chromosomes, or X Y chromosomes. A person with X,X will develop into a woman. A person with X,Y will develop into a man. Is science transphobic or hateaful? No, science doesn’t care who you are or what you think about yourself. It’s impartial. It operates in specific ways. Medicine operates in specific ways. Imagine you could undifferentiate all your cells, undivide them to the point of the zygote, the fertilized egg. Then a scientist comes in with CRISPR, cuts out your Y chromosome (Or second X chromosome), and swap them out, X for Y or Y for X. Then that scientist redivides and redifferentiates your cells, bringing you back to your current state. Now that person isin’t really a scientist, or even a magician. We’re talking about something beyond nature, preternatural perhaps, or a universe with fundamentally different rules for operating. It really isn’t possible for us to make a woman a man or vice versa.
Now I will make the devil’s argument. When I was 14 years old, I masturbated for the first time. And it felt really good (I’m arguing demonically(. It complicated my life, particularly as I had same sex attraction). I self-pleasured yesterday. Again, it feels great. Make your child wait until they are 18 before they transition through surgery, or even use puberty blockers. Because by the time they are 15 (what is this, the 40s?), they will discover how to self-pleasure. They might even have a partner with whom they can share that aspect of themselves with. Otherwise they will not be able to express this very human, very wonderful thing. (This cannot be my argument, but it is an argument, and I believe a valid one, even if the Judeo-Christian God would find this very offensive).
Are we hearing from anyone who detransitioned? From anyone who had double mastectomies, sex change surgeries (I mean no offense, but I don’t know what these are called these days), and regretted it? Or is the media, social media, and the like supressing these testimonies?
Finally, I make one more argument. I believe young people who become trans are playing into the hands of perverts who would groom and abuse them. Why do I think this? My Mom’s friend owned his own internet provider service for a business. He also had a porn hub. And you know what most of the men using his service looked at (he told us one day)? Transgender pornography. This was before I even knew what tarnsgender was or meant or implied.
I’m not going to go into my own history of being abused, because no one would believe me. It happened when I was so little that I don’t even consciously remember it. And that’s all I will say about that. But I think a lot of my sexual preferences (without adding value judgments) are a result of this abuse.
I know a lot of what I said is offensive. But I’m just trying to express and work out my own issues. And I’m trying to help you, the reader, avoid some mistakes and open yourself up to exploring your own issues, not so much to “fix” something, but to put your finger on the “why” you are a certain way. It’s taken me 25+ years to get to this point. And “gender affirming care” may take you 25+ years to really understand the implications of the medical decisions that were made concerning you.