"Daddy, I Want To Be A Girl"
A child can not have a strong desire or insist that they are the opposite gender. What do they know?
If your 5-year-old son walks up to you one day while you are watching TV in the living room, sits close to you, holds your hands and says, "Daddy, I want to be a girl."
What would be your response?
What's the normal thing to do?
Take him seriously and start to dress him up like a girl?
Or...
Sit the little man down and tell him he's the most perfect little man in the whole wild world.
Children start to have a sense of their own gender identity between the ages of 2 to 3 years old. And this period is a very delicate period for them. It's easy to mould their young minds at this age.
This is a very fragile subject. And I am going to try my best not to ruffle any feathers or sound like a judge.
I don't have any problem with the LGBTQ community.
I love them and pray for them. But I want us to leave the world of kids alone.
It's ridiculous to take a 2 or 3-year-old kid seriously when they talk about feeling like the opposite sex.
I mean, when did a child have the power to make a life-changing decision like what gender they want to become?
They don't have the ability.
They are innocent and need us adults to guide, protect and help them.
A child can not have a strong desire or insist that they are the opposite gender. What do they know?
Social Transitioning?
Even if people say that there aren't hospitals that do gender transitioning surgeries for kids (I hope we don't have places like that on earth), what is more disturbing than these "so called" hospitals is what is called "social transitioning for kids," where a kid who is identifying as the opposite sex is supported by the family to transition (in their minds) to the opposite sex.
In social transition, the family can do things like change their names or pronouns, buy them different clothes, etc.
What are they doing to these kids?
They are doing a socio-surgical transformation of their minds.
Instead of supporting them to remain in the natural lane, these poor kids are being led down an unfamiliar path.
And it becomes easier for them to make the decision to start surgical or hormonal transitioning when they get to the age of 15 or 18, depending on the law of the state they reside.
Now, as I mentioned earlier, this is a very delicate topic; I want us to understand that a kid, a toddler, doesn't understand the concept of sexuality, and adults who are meant to guide them shouldn't be the ones supporting them and helping to keep those immature and blind thoughts alive.
When kids come up with unnatural ideas and thoughts, instead of guiding them on the right path, some adults now fuel those ridiculous ideas.
100% of the time, these kids don't know what they are doing or what they want.
They are just innocent. They don't understand anything at all.
A child can not have a strong desire or insist that they are the opposite gender. What do they know?
When a child starts to wear the clothes of the opposite sex or plays with the toys of the opposite sex, people shouldn't just jump to conclusions and start social transitioning procedures on them.
They are kids and need to be guided and helped.
They may be playing with toys of the opposite gender out of curiosity and it doesn’t reflect their desire to identify as the opposite sex.
I do not think I will ever agree to socially transitioning kids.
It doesn't make any sense at all and must be discouraged.
Let's allow kids to grow naturally, and if we see unnatural things, we must cut them away and not encourage them.
I know, right? Many (including some of my readers) may not agree with my opinion. But a writer must do what a writer does—share their ideas.
The cornerstone of my argument is that we should leave children alone and not involve them in our gender identity wars. Simple…
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I think we can increase the volume. Thank you so much for being unbending to this abnormal normal. I strongly believe if we have more who refuse to accept this, we can save our future (the kids) from the disaster waiting to happen. In all, wonderful write up Sir, it's worth every bit of time spent reading it.