Transgenderism Up 1500%

Here’s a shocker that’s not so shocking to those who think: transgenderism has grown by 1500% among Swedish girls between thirteen and eighteen over the last ten years. What is truly stunning is the comment from Peter Salmi, an investigator at the national Board of Health and Welfare, who said, “Yes, that the increase is clear, there is no doubt, however, we do not know what the increase is due to.” Wait, what?

Cultural Conditioning

So here we have something that is not merely a minor deviation from the norm over thousands of years of recorded history. It’s not something in the water. It’s not drug-induced. Let’s just throw this in: it’s not a product of natural selection. Alex Newman got it right when he observed, “The brainwashing and Swedish government peddling of gender confusion starting even before Kindergarten is obviously working.” That’s the reason; children are being taught. Gender dysphoria is the result of cultural conditioning. The larger culture has followed suit. For example, one news program “portrayed a confused young girl as some sort of hero for impersonating a boy, complete with adults showering the confused child with praise for her ‘bravery.’”

Cultural Consequences

What are the implications? For one, “in virtually any other context, encouraging people to irreversibly mutilate themselves in a futile effort to make reality conform to their delusions would be regarded as cruel, if not criminal.” To subvert biology, history, and indeed reality is to impose a certain kind of death on the individual as well as the larger culture.

Second, future consequences for the individual and society are ignored in favor of the latest political fad. Politics not rooted in principle are tantamount to slavery – or possibly murder – depending on the outcome.

Cultural Chaos

Moreover, per Newman, “literally every cell in their body testifies to the fact that they are either male or female. By contrast, the last thing in the world they need is dishonest and insane adults cheering them on as . . . ‘doctors’ pump them full of hormones and surgically mutilate their genitals . . . It is time for the madness to end . . . As the American College of Pediatricians explained, brainwashing children to believe it is normal and healthy to impersonate the opposite sex with hormones and surgery is child abuse.”

These are strong words, but appropriate words – attention-getting words – the type of words warranted in desperate times. Ultimately, nothing short of a return to a full-orbed biblical worldview will end the madness. When there is no God, as Greg Koukl pointed out, your feet are planted firmly in mid-air. When your feet are planted there, mutilating children is brave. It’s braver still when one considers that children can’t think for themselves. Huxley’s brave new world was frightening, but not this frightening.

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