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There's one tactic that transgender advocates use that I really loathe because it has bullied countless parents into helping their children make one of the worst decisions of their lives.

What's that?

It's asking this question.

Would you rather have a dead son or a living daughter?

In other words, if you don't fully support your child identifying as the wrong sex, then your child will kill himself or kill herself.

This tactic uses the threat of suicide to cause panic and shut down a person's critical thinking abilities.

It then forces the person to accept whatever a transgender advocate cosplaying as a doctor tells them to do.

You see this in articles like this one about Jazz Jennings, or in other cases where the statement is flipped when it involves a girl who wants to live as a boy.

By the way, I want to add a caveat that we should avoid using the word trans as much as possible.

Calling someone a trans woman or a trans man gives legitimacy to the idea that the person is just a different kind of man or a different kind of woman instead of someone who is mistaken about whether they're a man or a woman.

So I'm gonna avoid that label as much as possible and instead speak frankly about the people I'm describing.

For example, here is a girl claiming to be a boy in the documentary Growing Up Trans whose parents go along with this identity out of fear that she'd commit suicide.

I just don't like feeling different.

Starts, um, making my tummy hurt a little, so Sometimes, um, it makes me f- cry when I'm very, very, very, very, very tired.

To, to develop breasts would be horrifying for him.

He doesn't want to be the kid that has to be different, and he has talked about suicide or killing himself before, which is why we immediately sought the help of professionals.

There's also the witness of detransitioners, people who go back to their true sexual identity.

Here is one woman who admits she adopted a male identity because she was scared of puberty and doctors then used the suicide threat to coerce her parents into going along with her destructive decision.

At the age of 12, I began to experience what my medical team would later diagnose as gender dysphoria.

I was well into an early puberty and I was very uncomfortable with the changes that were happening to my body.

I was intimidated by male attention, and when I told my parents that I felt like a boy, in retrospect, all I meant was that I hated puberty, that I wanted this newfound sexual attention to go away.

I came out as transgender in a letter I sent on the dining room table.

My parents were immediately concerned.

They felt like they needed to get outside help from medical professionals, but this proved to be a mistake.

It immediately set our entire family down a path of ideologically motivated deceit and coercion.

The gender specialist I was taken to, taken to see told my parents that I needed to be put on puberty blocking drugs right away.

They asked my parents a simple question.

Would you rather have a dead daughter or a living transgender son?

The fact is that experts, not ideologues, but real experts in medicine are seeing the harm associated with this.

That's why European countries are pausing transgender treatments for young people.

The French Academy of Medicine says in regards to cases like this young woman that, quote, There is no test to distinguish between persisting gender dysphoria and transient adolescent dysphoria.

Moreover, the risk of over-diagnosis is real as evidenced by the growing number of young adults wishing to detransition.

Another reason they're hitting the brakes is because of what even they recognize as the potential for irreversible harm from these interventions themselves.

These include things like hormone therapy, which was traditionally used to help children who have a rare condition called precocious puberty.

These therapies would help children whose development was going way too fast, like developing secondary sex characteristics under the age of eight or nine.

However, it was not used to pause healthy development in teenagers who have a normal development in puberty.

While puberty blockers are commonly referred to as fully reversible, more research is needed to fully understand the impact they may have on certain patients' fertility.

There is also little known about the drug's lasting effects on brain development and bone mineral density.

One major children's hospital in Sweden says the following.

These treatments are potentially fraught with extensive and irreversible adverse consequences such as cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, infertility, increased cancer risk, and thrombosis.

This makes it challenging to assess the risk/benefit for the individual patient and even more challenging for the minors and their guardians to be in a position of an informed stance regarding these treatments.

And there's evidence that the treatments do nothing to reduce the alleged risk of suicide that these advocates say comes from not fully affirming sex changes.

People who have gender dysphoria often have other mental illnesses or dysphorias, like anorexia or depression, which also carry suicide risks.

In these cases, what helps prevent suicide are not hormones, but psychotherapy and medication to treat things like depression.

Also, puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones can cause disruptions to the body that make suicidal ideation more likely.

Oxford University Professor Michael Biggs says the following.

There was no statistically significant difference in psychosocial functioning between the group of transgender patients given blockers and the group given only psychological support.

In addition, there is unpublished evidence that after a year on puberty blockers, children reported greater self-harm and that girls experienced more behavioral and emotional problems and expressed greater dissatisfaction with their body.

So puberty blockers exacerbated gender dysphoria.

A 2024 study from the Netherlands that followed transgender youth over the course of 15 years showed that only 2% of teens increased gender dysphoria, whereas 19% became more confident in their original sex.

The authors say, The results of the current study might help adolescents to realize that it is normal to have some doubts about one's identity and one's gender identity during this age period, and that this is also relatively common.

Finally, in October of this year, pro-transgender researchers refused to publish a study that showed puberty blockers had no effect on children's mental health.

According to The New York Times, 'Puberty blockers did not lead to mental health improvements,' the study author said, 'Most likely because the children were already doing well when the study began, she claims.

However, Dr. Olsen Kennedy and her colleagues noted that one-quarter of the adolescents were depressed or suicidal before treatment.

I also want to point out that one of the lead authors of this study, Olsen Kennedy, is a perfect embodiment of Romans 1:22.

Claiming to be wise, they became fools.

Here she is saying that it's not a big deal when teenagers decide to live as the other sex because teenagers make all kinds of big decisions, like what college they want to attend, and we don't worry about that, right?

People get married when they're under 20.

Actually, people choose colleges to go to.

Actually, people make life-altering decisions in adolescence,

all the time.

Uh, no.

Choosing to go to Massachusetts for college is a lot more reversible than choosing to get something like a mastectomy.

Adolescents actually have the capacity to make a reasoned, logical decision.

And here's the other thing about chest surgery.

If you want breasts at a later point in your life, you can go and get them.

That's moral insanity.

Imagine you told someone, Hey, it's not a big deal if you wanna cut off your arm.

You can always pick up a new arm later in life.

A prosthetic can never fully replace your natural arm, just as prosthetic breasts can never fully replace natural breasts.

This is why many women who de-transition from being fake men mourn the loss of their natural feminine sexual characteristics.

To say you can just pick up a new pair, as Olson Kennedy flippantly recommends, is sick.

Here's one de-transitioner who testifies to this happening to teens.

And remember, teens aren't great at making lifelong decisions.

At 16, the very first medical intervention I ever had was a double mastectomy in the name of gender affirming care.

I only had one consultation with the surgeon and one with the gender clinic before I was allowed to- to do this.

I was not able to fully give consent at the time, due to both my age and my mental health issues.

A few months later, I was then put on cross-sex hormones and started taking testosterone.

There was nothing wrong with my body.

I was just a teenager that was uncomfortable.

And honestly, in many of these cases, it's parents who overreact to a child just being gender-nonconforming and assume that they're transgender.

Here's a video from Boston Children's Hospital that the hospital deleted, but the internet is forever.

And thanks to Ben Shapiro for highlighting it.

Here's the actual video from Boston Children's Hospital, which by the way has, according to their own website, performed at least 300 gender surgeries on minors over the past four years.

A child will often know that they are transgender from the moment that they have any ability to express themselves, and parents will often tell us this.

We have parents who tell us that their kids, they knew from the minute they were born, practically.

And actions like refusing to get a haircut or standing to urinate, trying to stand to urinate, refusing to stand to urinate, trying on siblings' clothing, uh, playing with the, quote, opposite gender toys, things like that.

In October of 2022, Vanderbilt University Medical Center publicly stated that, quote, We are pausing gender affirmation surgeries on patients under 18.

In August of 2022, Boston Children's Hospital deleted a part of their website that said, quote, A person who is 17 years old could qualify for a vaginoplasty, which creates a hole in the person's pelvic region that is supposed to simulate a vagina.

They later claimed that 17-year-olds can only qualify for a consultation, not a surgery.

But this doesn't explain what they originally said, which is this.

To qualify for gender affirmation at Boston Children's Hospital, you must be at least 18 years old for phalloplasty or metoidplasty, and at least 17 years old for vaginoplasty.

Mutilating people's bodies does not help them out of mental health issues.

It helps them fall deeper and deeper within them.

Consider this clip from a man who thinks he's a woman, describing how he's trying to create a fake vagina for himself, which is just an unnatural hole that is carved into his genital area that his male body is desperately trying to heal.

He has to use a series of dilators to keep his male body from trying to heal this unnatural hole that's not supposed to be there.

Watch this clip, and tell me with a straight face that these kinds of interventions actually help people's mental health.

Once again, I'm gonna be talking about dilation.

I'm dilating three times a day, as instructed by my doctor to avoid future complications.

And I'm now up to the largest size of dilator in the set.

I'm still using the orange dilator for depth, although I'm not quite reaching the indicated mark.

One thing that's bound to make people depressed is the false hope the transgender movement gives them.

Transgender advocates will show them rare examples of people who identify as transgender and already had less pronounced features.

And so with a lot of money and surgery and luck, they can pass as a member of the other sex that they don't actually belong to.

And they think that this is going to be them, too.

But they're thinking like someone who drops out of high school thinking they're gonna be the rare one who makes it to the NFL, and not all the other people who don't.

In reality, they're probably going to look like someone pretending to be the other sex.

They're not going to pass, and they're going to be treated accordingly in society, leading to more and more frustration and depressive or angry episodes.

Excuse me, sir.

There's a young man in here, and you are yelling.

Excuse me, it's ma'am.

I'm sorry.

It is ma'am.

I can call the police if you'd like me to.

You need to settle down.

You need to settle down and mind your business, okay?

Sir, just walk- Ma'am!

Once again, ma'am!

Finally, history disproves the lie that you must either choose a dead child if you affirm their true sexuality or a living child by affirming a falsehood about them.

Studies show that 1% of people identify as transgender.

And let's say that this has been true throughout history.

This does seem to be inflated, but even if it were half a percent or a tenth of a percent, the argument will hold.

And that these people throughout history weren't willing to publicly identify in this way.

If the suicide false dilemma were true, we'd expect tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of unexplainable suicides among young people, as well as them revealing their true gender identity before death.

But that's just not what we find.

This suicide threat is the worst kind of manipulation, but we should not respond to it with hate or malice towards those who have an identity disorder.

In fact, if we truly hated those who have gender dysphoria, we'd say nothing and allow these awful harms to come to pass for them.

But love means you speak out when someone is going to hurt himself, even if it's a message that that person doesn't wanna hear.

For more on this topic, I definitely recommend Abigail Shrier's book, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters.

Thank you so much for watching, and I hope you have a very blessed day.