Why transitioning will one day be seen as medical abuse

Is it ever right to "change" your sex?
Two articles at the end of last year got me thinking:

Detransitioning - Telegraph Article

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Detransitioning - Sky News Article 

Both of them reveal that scores of people are detransitioning.

I am not here going to discuss the impossibility of altering  the chromosomes in every cell of your body, making the very idea of changing from one sex to another an impossibility, but leave that to the noble Dr Paula Johnson in her TED talk.

But I am going to make a "historic" prediction: come back in 50 years and stone me if I am wrong.  

Some predictions are foolish, some are wise
Some prediction are unwise. How will the UK fare out of the European Union economically? Who knows? Who will win the next election in the USA? Will Climate Change be reversed - is it actually reversible? Who knows?

But one wise prediction is this: in 100 years or less, the operation to change a human body from one sex to the other will be regarded as one of the most barbaric medical procedures ever conceived of and inflicted on hapless - and far more seriously, hurting - human beings. Transitioning is a double wammy. First the mental trauma they are passing through, then to add to it, "medical" butchery.

We will look back in horror at the very thought that medicine ever dreamt up or carried out these procedures. Chopping pieces off human beings, sewing on new pieces, nipping here, tucking there, mutilating body parts; pouring alien chemicals into human bodies. That we ever abused children with chemicals to retard or arrest their natural sexual development.

Josef Mengele will have to be forgiven.

Here are the reasons, from the lesser to the greater...

Reasons we will certainly regret this medical regress

(1) Medicine has plenty of historical horror stories

Look - white coats - they must be right

In the history of medical science, new is not necessarily good. There are lots of horror stories out there.  Perhaps the best modern example of abuse were the famous lobotomy operations where one part of the brain was severed from another part (the audacity in hindsight!). By the 80s these operations ended. Today, says Wikipedia, "lobotomy has become a disparaged procedure, a byword for medical barbarism and an exemplary instance of the medical trampling of patients' rights." Mark my words, Wikipedia will say the same thing about medical transitioning in 100 years, if not before. The idea that "medical science is always right", is about as true as saying "Barack Obama was always right." The idea that operations undertaken today will never be judged tomorrow is an arrogant miscalculation.

(2) Medicine is shaped by the cultural milieu
There is no such thing as neutral medicine, any more than there is no such thing as neutral astronomy. All human endeavours are driven and guided by the cultural thinking of the day. The key projects, to take one example, of astronomy today - we're talking billions of dollars - are bent on finding life on other planets. There is no neutral "let's find out everything that's out there," all research is focused down to one narrow goal, which is itself guided by evolutionary thinking (life must have evolved everywhere)  and a radical denial that human beings might just be unique.

So too with medicine. Medics kill millions of babies around the world before they have a moment to breathe because of the lying philosophy that a baby is somehow merely a part of a woman's body, in the same way that a wart or scab is part of her body: hence she has a right to get rid of "those cells." And now we encourage children and adults to change their birth sex - the only true sex - because of some ludicrous "spectrum of genders" philosophy.

Medicine follows the philosophies of the day, it does not possess some timeless neutral truth.

True Stories of Abuse

(3) Time will tell
It may be exciting to undertake novae operations, either as the surgeon or the victim. And the Adrenalin of the new often blinds us to the underlying deep-seated negatives or the long-term problems. We're on the cutting edge, folks, let's bury bad news.

But now as time passes, those who transitioned are telling their stories (see the articles above and the book to the right) and the true horrors of this medical abuse are coming to light.

Listen to Walt Heyer who went through this operation and detransitioned.

Hear him here: Walt Heyer speaks out

Wrong medicine always shows up in time. As more and more stories of medical transitioning abuse come out momentum will gather to ban it - and perhaps prosecute those who performed it. 

(4) We live in a tiny - completely untypical - historical blip
From the universal structure of historic languages (feminine, masculine, neuter) to the universal understanding of males and females marrying one another, our culture is on the wrong side of history. And we can see a reaction among some of our young people against this foolish tide of nonsense, as well as a massive resistance (but today only able to be expressed in the four walls of their homes, when Alexa isn't listening) of vast swathes of our population to these instinctively, and obviously, and foolishly wrong ideas.

Wisdom always scans the past for wisdom and asks "was there ever an age which promoted such ideas?" If not, wisdom treads carefully. 

(5) Changing sex is above all, against biology
Every cell of our bodies is sexed from birth (almost every cell). Unless you liquidise someone, change the chromosomal make up of every cell and then reconstitute their bodies, every transitioned body remains exactly the sex it was before it was transitioned. The body is not only sexed at the level of organs, it is sexed at the more fundamental level of cells.

This is the main reason we will look back in horror and disgust at what we are doing - because these operaions are against biology, against science, against fact, against truth. What aroogance we will one day say!

The difference between today and previous generations is that the Internet can carry false philosophies around the world making them, like a virus, spread faster and further. Truth on the web travels much slower. Nevertheless future generations will wake up once the detransitioners speak out and speak up.

I have missed out of my five reasons the most important. The Scriptures make it plain that God created us either male or female. The sex we were born with is our real sex, and only sex; and to meddle with that is to meddle with God's design. Living in a fallen world there will always be a small number of people whose gender has been messed up, but that does mean we encourage them to re-assign, instead we help them to cope with the ravages of the fall. I've missed out this reason, because, as always, God's Truth always lines up with the facts as we find them in the world.

Anger and pity
Our response to transitioning should be both a profound anger against those who promote such historically-blippish, medically abusive philosophies, and deep pity on those who drawn in and seduced by such mistakes and are forced to suffer the profound indignities of such bodily exploitation, abuse and maltreatment. The way to treat a person who feels different is not to affirm their feelings, no matter how strongly felt, but to help them through and in those feelings.

The Gospel brings common sense
Christians should respond in sorrow and love towards those who have been abused in this way. Christians never despise anyone, because Jesus didn't. And we should rejoice that the global and eternal Gospel sets us free from the errors of our transient world. So we should preach it with more passion and confidence than ever before, because it is the only answer to every human ill. The Gospel forms a new identity- no longer are we male or female, Jew or Gentile, free or slave - or any other fleeting identity, but our new identity is in Christ.