Biden's Words to a Mom are Tragic and Dangerous.


Thursday night, I witnessed something so disturbing I had to share it with
you.

Here was the scene: A mom of two young children stood up during former
Vice President Biden's town hall event, and shared that her
younger child (age 8) identifies as transgender -a boy who feels
he's a girl. As she listed various conservative policies on sex
and gender (to which she was opposed), it was clear that this mother
was concerned for the future of her child.

My heart goes out to that mom. We should have incredible compassion
for those who are struggling to accept their God-given sex, and for
their families. People who identify as transgender or who have gender
dysphoria suffer not only with accepting their own bodies, but also
with a myriad of other challenges including high suicide rates. Often,
there's also an underlying problem, such as abuse or challenges
fitting in with a social group.

This is no small issue. Christians should be eager to help those who
are suffering in this way.

But when someone is struggling to accept their body, our answer should
not be to affirm that something is wrong with their body - to
tell them that they need surgeries and hormones to "fix"
what is "wrong" with them. Instead, it should be to reach
out with compassion, find out what's causing these feelings, and
provide meaningful counseling to help individuals see that their
bodies are fearfully and wonderfully made - just the way they
are.

It's not a "quick fix," but we know that it can
provide the lasting healing that transgender-identifying people so
desperately need. And for moms like the one who spoke on Thursday
night, they should receive the truth that around 85% of children who
are struggling to accept their sex in childhood will reconcile with
their biological sex by adulthood if they are not pushed to
transition.

What is "transitioning"?

It's a quick "fix." It takes deep emotional pain and
answers it with surgery and some pills. It offers the initial
celebration of the LGBTQ + lobby - followed by the slow
realization that the underlying pain is still there. Ultimately,
initial evidence shows that long-term suicide rates are exponentially
higher among those who "transition."

That is a tragedy, and to push that outcome on a vulnerable child is
so abhorrent some have called it child abuse.

So as this mom stood before former Vice President Biden, asking how he
would respond to people like her 8-year-old child, there was much on
the line. It was his opportunity to show that he wouldn't
cow-tow to the radical Left's push for
"transitions," to show his compassion by speaking the
truth in love.

But that's not what happened.

Biden's response? "I will flat out just change the law,
and eliminate [President Trump's] Executive Orders, number
one." He continued by talking about "the idea that an
eight-year-old child, or a ten-year-old child, decides, 'you
know I want to be transgender, that's what I think I'd
like to be - it would make my life a lot easier.'"

Whether that comment was tongue-in-cheek or meant as support for the
idea of "choosing to be transgender," it's clear it
was supporting the idea of children identifying as transgender. And
sadly, Biden's words represent just the lie that the Left wants
children to believe: that transition will make their lives easier, or
at least better. But it won't. It sets children up for a life of
struggle and disappointment, scars of the body and the heart.

Meanwhile, the Trump Administration has taken the unpopular, but
important, position of making policies based on the truth: we are born
male and female, no amount of surgeries can truly change that, and to
deny that hurts not only the people struggling with their gender, but
others with whom they interact.

One clear example: if a male identifies as a female and wants to
compete in a female sports division, he will naturally have physical
advantages over the female athletes that place them at a disadvantage
in their own sports division. It's fundamentally unfair.

While President Trump's Justice and Education departments have
spoken in support of policies that ensure girls' sports are
reserved for girls, the Biden/Harris campaign says on their website
that "transgender equality is the civil rights issue of our
time," and supports "transgender students' access to
sports, bathrooms, and locker rooms in accordance with their gender
identity."

The lines have been drawn. Now it's our time to speak through
voting.

If you or someone you know would like more information about the
candidates' positions, please refer to our Presidential Voter
Guide. It includes the candidates' positions on issues you care
about like life, religious freedom, and parental choice in education.

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November 3 is coming quickly, and the stakes are high. Will you join
us in prayer, and in sharing our voices through voting?

Sincerely,


Meridian Baldacci
Policy and Communications Strategist


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