It’s back to school time, which usually means parents buy school supplies and start waking kids up earlier in the morning. But one elementary school just sent out a letter informing the parents that the school is welcoming a new family with a transgendered "3rd grade girl."
The letter urges the parents and students to welcome and accept her and treat her the same as any other girl. Not so subtly, the letter also informed parents that the school district does not tolerate discrimination in respect to gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, ethnicity, disability or religion.
YIKES!!!
My heart absolutely breaks to learn of this. I’m sure the school administrators (and possibly, it’s just one person) are patting themselves on the back for being so progressive and politically correct. I can’t imagine that they are aware of the pressure this puts on this poor confused little boy, as well as an entire school, to engage in this social experiment.
If a third grader decided brushing his teeth is a stupid waste of time and he wasn’t going to do it anymore, responsible parents would never give in to the little tyrant who is completely unable to see the long-term consequences of foolish choices.
If a third grader decided that school itself is a stupid waste of time and he wasn’t going anymore, responsible parents wouldn’t give in to that misguided tantrum, either.
But when a third grader is so consumed by confusion about being a boy, when his whole life is permeated with the hopeless despair of believing It’s not okay to be me, and when his parents capitulate to his fantasy, something bigger than mere confusion is going on. This kid is driving the bus of not only his life, but his parents’ as well. And just as we would never let third-graders drive a literal bus, it’s equally nuts and scary to let them sit at the controls of anyone’s life.
When my friend Ricky was four, he decided he wanted to be a horse. His mother wisely did not build a stable in their back yard and feed him hay just because her little boy wanted to be something other than who he was. She said, “No, you’re not a horse, you’re a human boy.” And in time, he grew to accept who he was.
It’s politically correct to affirm whatever feelings children have, such as “I’m a boy but I feel like a girl,” as valid. When school administrators try to get a whole school to indulge the fantasy, it’s only a matter of time before things blow up in their faces, because their rhetoric isn’t powerful enough to disable kids’ baloney detectors. At least some kids’. Telling children to accept a boy as a girl and expecting them to swallow it without thinking is sheer hubris, I think.
“. . . male and female He created them.” Gen. 1:27
Children know that we live in a binary world: boys and girls, male and female. And it is not good, or loving, to indulge the fantasy that one can change the reality God created. Or that He made a mistake in choosing a baby’s gender.
I pray for this confused little boy, that his parents will get him the help for his gender identity disorder now while there’s still lots of hope for help. And I pray for the Christians in that school to be lovingly bold in proclaiming that it’s not in this student’s best interest, or the best interests of the rest of the students, to take make-believe to a scary new level.
And I pray that the Lord will gently pick up this precious, confused little boy from his bus driver's seat and place him in His lap.
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1 Cor 14: 33 gives us the character of God: for God is not characterized by disorder. As we look at the universe we see His perfect order. What a disoriented society we have become when we allow what God has wrought to become the antithesis of what He has perfectly designed. The lie of the "enemy" is before us and he is becoming bolder with each day. The parents think progression, the "enemy" thinks confusion, but we who read Ps 2 see this is as "nonsense" . God sits in heaven and laughs at these fools. Yes they are fools for they have fallen into the trap of religious folly. Thedictionary defines it as: a person who lacks judgment or sense in sharp contrast to the wise.
The EBD defines the contrast: a moral rather than an intellectual quality. To be "foolish" is to be godless (Ps. 14:1; comp. Judg. 19:23; 2 Sam. 13:13). True wisdom is a gift from God to those who ask it (Job 28:12-28; Prov. 3:13-18; Rom. 1:22; 16:27; 1 Cor. 1:17-21; 2:6-8; James 1:5). "Wisdom" in Prov. 1:20; 8:1; 9:1-5
may be regarded not as a mere personification of the attribute of
wisdom, but as a divine person, "Christ the power of God and the wisdom
of God" (1 Cor. 1:24). In Matt. 11:19 it is the personified principle of wisdom that is meant.
In Ps 77 the writer expresses his thoughts about himself and God. He ends his discourse by saying in essence: God has not changed, it is me and I need to reorient my thinking to bring it in line with HIM. How "foolish" of these parents and this administration to think that this little boy is "correct" in his thinking. As you eloquently put it...... "YIKES". This is, my friend, the "new world order" and it should be reworded as the "new world of disorder".! Welcome to the camp of the fool. Is this not just an excerpt from the story of the "Emperor's New Clothes"? So how do we respond in situations we face every day like this? We can lovingly correct but beware these that have this mind-set are like the ones of whom the authors of Proverbs and Jude wrote about: Jude 1:18 "“In the end time there will come scoffers, propelled by their own ungodly desires" .NetBible.
Sad indeed to see this propelled before us. Who is the parent here? Who is the authority in that school? And this is the generation that we are raising. Once again "YIKES""
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