Neighborhood Ministries

An increasing number of kids are experiencing gender confusion. Gay Rights advocates say transitioning to their perceived gender will solve the problem and have been pushing puberty blockers and corrective surgery. However, many physicians and therapists oppose puberty blockers, even ones that are strongly pro-gay. Gay Rights advocates have been pushing legislation to prevent parents with interfering with the child’s decision to transition and some schools are refusing to notify parents when their child wants to transition. The treatment must begin around age eleven but kids that age are too young to understand implications of it. Time is required for maturity and hormones play big part of that.  Puberty blockers prevent normal sexual development, causing sexual dysfunction and often permanently sterility. England has been more aggressive in the use of puberty blockers, however there is an increasing backlash against the use. Workers have become upset with the fact that counselors do not adequately screen children for emotional problems and are pressing for use of puberty blockers with very little understanding of the potential effects and very little follow-up to see if the treatment has been effective. In addition, children are beginning to realize the outcomes from the use of puberty blockers and are beginning to file lawsuits claiming they were misled by counselors. The courts are beginning to agree. Hopefully other countries like the United States will begin to seriously question the practice and it will lead to serious investigation of the use.

School boards are increasingly pushing for Gay privileges in their schools, under pressure from the federal Dept. of Education and  trying to block public opposition. For instance, when the Loudoun County Schools in Virginia proposed a policy which would allow students to change their names and pronouns at school without parental involvement and would require all teachers, staff, and students to address them by their chosen pronoun or face punishment. The initiative was funded by outside groups. A teacher objected in a public comment time in a school board meeting and the school district fired her. She challenged it in court and the court agreed with her. The school board then appealed the lower court’s decision but the Virginia Supreme Court also agreed  with the teacher. The school board then instituted the policy in violation of the court rulings. Voters have elected school board members with no thought to what policies they will implement and have allowed school boards to do whatever they want without any opposition. As a result, school boards have increasingly been imposing their liberal policies on school children without parents knowledge. Parents need to monitor what their children are learning. Learning from home during the Covid epidemic has enabled more parents to see what their children are learning, but knowledge does no good without an active response. It is time voters start electing people who will listen to what parents want and implement good policies and voters need to start recalling school board members who blatantly impose their liberal policies on students with no regard for student’s or parent’s rights

President Biden is continuing pressure to get Title IX rewritten to prevent discrimination on the basis of gender identity instead of the basis of biological sex. Liberals are insistent on the right of children to use the school bathroom, locker room, shower, and sleeping facility of their choice based on the gender they feel they are rather than their gender based on their physical structure. However, to allow that has implications far beyond the Gay community. Separate school bathrooms, showers, and locker rooms were set aside to protect girls from voyeurs and sexual predators. When rules are enforced, the mere presence of a boy hanging around outside a girls facility would alert bystanders to a threat before he is able to attack anyone. However, if boys are allowed to use the facility of their choice, there would not be anything suspicious about a man entering a girls facility and predators could enter a girls facility without raising suspicion and attack vulnerable girls. Once the decision is made to allow children to use the facility of their choice, it is only logical for them to press to extend that to public facilities outside schools. The issue has already come up in numerous States and been defeated by pressure from concerned parents and other citizens. Gay Rights groups will continue to try to threaten schools with legal action to allow kids to use the facility of their choice and parents must be constantly vigilant to prevent it. We need to continue to insist on strict separation of all public restroom facilities.

We are seeing an increasing number of girls claim to be transgender due to the schools and social media. Girls have had an increasing problem with their self-image due to media hammering out the message that women are discriminated against and are second class citizens. While that was once true, there were vast advances in women’s rights and women were excelling in school over boys and graduating from high school, college, and graduate schools more often then boys. Since the current rise in efforts to promote transgenderism, society has openly trampled on women’s rights. Men, claiming to be women, have been allowed to use women’s restrooms, showers, and sleeping quarters endangering women. In addition, men, claiming to be women,  have been allowed to enter women’s sports, forcing biological women out of the competition. Society is increasingly showing open contempt for women’s rights. Girls often have a self-image problem in their teen years with changes in their body, but the media is making it worse with promotion of the perfect body for women. Girls are increasingly online where they are told that their problem is due to them being a boy in a girl’s body and are pressured to transition to boys. In addition, they may feel they can avoid the pressure to have the perfect body by transitioning to being a boy. As a result, we are seeing an explosion in the number of girls seeking to transition. Schools are compounding the problem by teaching that you can not relay on biology to tell you what sex you are, causing children to become confused and causing doubts when they run into normal problems in growing up. Instead of dealing with the problems, they are urged to transition to the opposite sex.