Neighborhood Ministries

President Obama, while in office, sent out a directive to all schools to allow boys identifying as girls to use girl’s showers, locker rooms, and restrooms, or lose federal funding. That was a blatant abuse of Presidential power, since the President is not allowed by the Constitution to make or change laws. That directive was rescinded by President Trump, but President Biden has restored it. President Biden and the Dept of Education have been seeking to force schools to allow boys who identify as girls to use girl’s restrooms, locker rooms, and showers. That puts women and girls in danger from predators who claim to be girls to gain access to girls facilities and forces girls to undress and shower in front of boys seeking to gain access to girls facilities by claiming they are girls. The vast majority of people oppose the practice. They have also been pressuring schools to allow boys to play on girl’s sport teams. Boys are bigger and stronger than girls and girls can rarely compete. It has allowed boys who cannot succeed in sports to claim to be girls and succeed where they would not be able to otherwise. That is unfair to girls who have trained for years and achieved success in sports to lose out to biological boys. In addition, with boys bigger and stronger, it increases the danger of girls being hurt. The  fact that elected officials choose to openly disregard the will of the people and jeopardize the safety of those who elected them should not be tolerated by a free society. Constituents should contact their legislators in Congress to enact laws outlawing such access. They should also contact their State legislators and ask them to pass legislation outlawing such access within their State since that is not a power granted to the federal government under the Constitution. Finally they should contact their local school board members and urge them not to allow such access

While Gays claim that they are born that way, studies of identical twins who share 100 % of their DNA show only 28% share transgender confusion so it does not manifest itself without outside non-biological factors. Anyone else expressing confusion about the reality around them is declared confused or delusional, but gender confusion is considered an exception. Studies  show that gender identity is very flexible. Prior to the widespread promotion of transgender therapy, 75-95% of children experiencing gender distress before puberty, outgrew it. Most of them outgrew it by late adolescence, after going through puberty. Since widespread promotion, the number of those experiencing gender distress and the persistence of such distress has increased dramatically. Children under the age of 21 lack the ability to access risk factors and can not give valid consent. To submit them to transition therapy which is irreversible and life changing based on their feelings is irresponsible. Transition therapy stops their bodies normal production of hormones and substitutes the hormones needed to produce the physical qualities of the opposite sex. Once a children goes through transition therapy, often around age 10-12 when they begin to experience changes, they become permanently sterile and can never have kids. While they claim transition affirming therapy  will help the child adjust to their perceived gender, it has not reduced the rate of suicide which remains around 20 times that of the general population.

There has been a rapid increase in the number of girls identifying as trans in last 6-7 years. Originally rare and primarily boys, it is increasing among girls as early as 11 or 12 at an alarming rate. The teen years are very confusing for girls in establishing their identity and many feel they don’t fit in with the image that the media paints that girls should be. In addition, they are feeling a lot of pressure from boys to have sex. The media says they are really boys in girl’s bodies and can solve the problem by becoming boys. This sounds like a good solution to them because it offers an explanation for why they are confused about their identity and solves the problem of pressure from boys. In addition, the overwhelming pressure by doctors and school personnel is to transition and little is done to help them understand or resolve their confusion. Yet there is no information on whether transitioning helps or the damage done by transitioning. Most studies are done on boys which have entirely different causes. The rise in the number of girls is so recent that the outcomes cannot be predicted, since girls often don’t resolve their confusion until their early 20;s. Doctors and school personnel are often afraid to try to help them deal with the problem and parents feel they will be labeled as bigoted if they try to get the girl help. Some States are even passing laws that make it a crime to try to prevent a child from transitioning or to get them to return to their natural orientation. Many schools are not notifying parents when a child is confused and are pressuring the child to transition without exploring the cause of their confusion. Ohio House Bill 68 (the SAFE Act-Saving Adolescents from Experimentation) is headed for the House floor. It would ban the experimenting on children by giving them puberty blockers and wrong-sex drugs to transition them to the opposite sex and performing transgender surgeries that often leave them sterile. Contact your representatives and urge them to paass it. Nineteen other States have already passed such laws.