Mommy, Now I Am a Boy!
By: Brad Huddleston
One of the most horrifying trends on the Internet, promoted especially through TikTok, is gender transitioning. According to one trans organization, “Transitioning is the time period during which a person begins to live according to their gender identity, rather than the gender they were thought to be at birth.” How would you react if your eight-year-old son came home from school one day and proclaimed, “Mommy, now I’m a girl.” Or imagine the shock if, one day, your daughter Michelle emerges from years of social media use alone in her bedroom and insists from now on you call her “Michael.” To add to the confusion, your new “son” is very particular about the pronouns you use around the house.
Similar heartbreaking scenes are playing out all over the world.
It’s hard to believe, but in many cases, parents are actually celebrating with their newly declared transgender children. But in most cases, there is bewilderment, sorrow, and confusion. How could the child you always remember as being a “girly girl” suddenly want to identify as male? Chances are, LGBTQ influencers and activists have gotten their hooks into her on TikTok, and if she attends a government school, quite likely through a sex ed class or a gender studies class.
Detransitioner Chloe Cole told her story on Glenn Beck’s podcast and described how her transition from female to pretend-male began: I got my first phone when I was eleven because I wanted to fit in with all my other friends who had phones. I made my first social media account on Instagram and Snapchat. I wasn’t actually supposed to be using it so young because the minimum age is actually thirteen but they don’t actually check that. I saw a lot of things on there that I really shouldn’t have at that age. Much of the content she encountered was from the LGBTQ community and some was very sexual in nature. When she was twelve, she came out as transgender; at thirteen, she told her parents, and then doctors prescribed puberty blockers and testosterone. When she was fifteen, doctors cut off both of her breasts. Soon after, she realized she had made a mistake and began “de-transitioning” back to being a female when she was seventeen. Chloe is joined by a growing number of de-transitioners whom doctors have mutilated. As a result, several states have restricted so-called “gender-affirming care.”
What Can Parents and Grandparents Do?
Even according to “gender-affirming care” pioneer Dr. Riittakertttu Kaltiala, chief psychiatrist at Finland’s largest gender clinic, “For the overwhelming majority of gender dysphoric children—around 80 percent—their dysphoria resolves itself if they are left to go through natural puberty.” She also cautions parents against using their gender-questioning children’s newly chosen names and pronouns, as this could negatively influence the adolescent. As hard as it may be, waiting it out is a good option.
Parents of gender-questioning children should be very cautious should they want to take them to a doctor or therapist. Because of fear of LGBTQ activists and losing their jobs, many doctors and therapists will immediately apply “gender-affirming care” without offering other forms of treatment. All of this is one reason I tell parents in my audiences not to allow children to have smartphones – a message often greeted with looks of horror staring back at me.
But by eliminating the smartphone, apps such as TikTok and Instagram can’t get their hooks into your child. Buy your child a dumbphone. They allow communication with friends just fine. Along those same lines, allow no computers, laptops, tablets, or televisions in bedrooms, or to be used without adults present. Teach your children and grandchildren what their Creator says about their gender. Genesis 1:27 (NKJV) “So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
If this or a similar scenario has happened to you, it’s likely the shock literally has your head swimming. What would you do? What should you do? James 1:5 (NIV) says, “If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.”
