Why Do They Keep Denying This

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Transgenderism is a mental illness that needs to be treated, not celebrated. Look at the history. Minneapolis, Minnesota, Robert “Robin” Westman, 2025; Nashville, Tennessee, Audrey “Aiden” Hale, 2023; Colorado Springs, Colorado, Anderson Lee Aldrich, 2022; Highlands Ranch, Colorado, Alec McKinney, 2019, just to name a few. Canada does not hide the fact like USA does. Aberdeen, Maryland, Scnochia Moseley, 2018, the list goes on. Isn’t helping these people find peace and mental stability, not love and compassion?

May God be with all those in volved in this and all cases like this, where young lives were cut down way too early. Along with those struggling with this today. They need our love and understanding, not praise and affirmation.

Peter

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Given how the label “Christian” is often misunderstood or misrepresented today, how do you think people of faith can genuinely offer help and support?

J.

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I believe there is really only one way for all of us to help. First, we should pray for them. Second, if any child of God knows someone personally who is transgender, we need to witness to them. I understand that they may not want to hear, they may even get hostile, but it also with plant the seed, and perhaps opens the door for God to work in their life.

“I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow. So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.” 1 Corinthians 3:6-7

Second, we must increase access to mental health assistance. Either through a church, community, or even government. Some people with mental illness do not realize they have a mental illness. Especially since the last 4 or 5 years, they were glorified and called brave and heroes for being sick and confused.

Nowhere in the Word, nowhere in ANY of my writings, nowhere in true Christian missions have I heard or said we need to hate these people. We need to be loving. We need to respect them as a person, and try to help them.

There is, of course, a fine line that God is much better at straddling. Where you reach a point where we must just let go and allow them to suffer the consequences for their refusing to repent.

I guess a third thing we all should do is report someone if we feel there is a legitimate sign of danger. Violence, comments, Social Media posts, ETC. We need to stop reacting after people die.

Peter

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I’m not sure what you mean by this Peter. In anything I’ve read, transgenderism and violent crime are not linked together. Stated perhaps that the offender was transgender but never giving that as a reason for committing the crime. I agree that gender dysphoria is a mental illness that can be treated. There are likely some cases that are legit like those who are born with both sexes.

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I agree with much of what you wrote, but I believe many modern churches have lost clarity about what the church is actually called to be and do.

Let me put this plainly, brother.

David Wilkerson did not build a platform. He built an outreach. He stepped into gang territory, not conference circuits. I have met Nicky Cruz in person, and that testimony was not theory.

Here in Durban, we once had an outreach ministry that did not stop at preaching. There was a functioning clinic. There were trained nurses. People were treated physically, emotionally, and spiritually. It was holistic care in action. It looked like Matthew 25 lived out instead of framed on a wall. Feeding the hungry. Clothing the naked. Visiting the sick. Showing up where it was uncomfortable.

The early church was known for plague care, orphan rescue, food distribution, and radical generosity. They did not argue about cultural decline while remaining insulated from it. They moved toward suffering. Somewhere along the line, many congregations became event centers instead of field hospitals.

So the real question is not whether society respects the name “Christian.” The question is whether the church is recognizable by its works of mercy, justice, and sacrificial love. If the reputation is damaged, perhaps the remedy is not rebranding but repentance and reconstruction.

How many churches today operate clinics? How many train members in crisis counseling? How many actively mentor fatherless youth, support addicts through structured recovery, house the homeless, or stand in court with the voiceless? How many measure success by transformed neighborhoods rather than attendance metrics?

If we want credibility, it will not come from argument alone. It will come from visible, sustained, inconvenient service.

The world has seen enough statements. It is waiting to see embodied compassion.

2 cents.

J.

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They most certainly are. Nearly all school shootings have been carried out by Trans and or Gay folks. During that time, when it was being glorified and celebrated, Transgender individuals were arrested for violent crimes at a rate 3.2 times higher than cisgender individuals, 62% of transgender arrestees in 2021 were aged 18–24. Then you have the bathroom incidents https://downloads.frc.org/EF/EF16F27.pdf

Approximately 1 in 1,500 to 1 in 2,000 babies are born with visibly atypical genitalia, while up to 1.7% of all births involve some form of intersex trait. True hermaphroditism is extremely rare, with higher prevalence reported in certain regions like Southern Africa, but globally it represents a very small fraction of births. www.calendar-canada.ca

I do understand compassion. But allowing them to continue as they are and allowing them to go on unchecked, more kids can and will die. Love, compassion, and truth, is how we should try to help these people.

Peter

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I completely agree with you. I never claimed that the church is absent or unaccountable in addressing this issue. Unfortunately, many churches today prioritize profit over salvation. Justifying sin instead of fighting it.

I would love it if the church of today were even remotely close to the early church. This is why I said community and or even gov. We all need to come together. Instead of fighting with eachother. Us, them, all involved, since all are involved

Peter

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Just wanted to get it off my chest/Lev brother.

Shalom.

J.

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You said Canada does not hide the fact like the USA does. What I’m saying, as a Canadian, is that when a violent incident is reported, Canadian news doesn’t link transgenderism with the violence. They don’t suggest that the fact a transgender person committed the crime is the reason behind the crime being committed. They may say it was someone transgender who did it, but there’s no suggestion that it happened because they are transgender. What is it that Canada doesn’t hide that the USA hides?

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Oh, I understand now @Bestill

As an American, I can tell you clearly that our media does EVERYTHING it can to hide the sexual identity of any perpetrator, until there is no longer a denial available. In other words, when someone online finds out and posts it. Even then, our media is quick to defend them because they are a minority and they do not deserve scrutiny.

From what I have seen in the Canadian News, it is what we used to be here in this country. Here are the facts; you decide. Sadly, we no longer have that here. Now we have two sides of the news, and we are left to attempt to find the truth in all the nonsense.

Peter

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The issue with this is politics.

Trigger warning: The following goes into what some call politics. (If the subject is not for you or you get offended by the subject, stop reading and skip this post.) Tap below to read.

Police are meant to, as their own motto says, “protect & serve.” Notice it does not mention “prevent”.[1] These days it is more like "Protect (our own interests) & Serve (our own interests). Long past are the days where where a beat cop rattles doorknobs of “closed” businesses to help prevent theft and break-ins. They are now more interested in filling their quota, which many deny exists.

This is due to many reasons, some of which are: Callous and uncaring public, greed motivated politicians, lack of proper funding and training, and lack of public oversight and control.

To make this worse, Police in general have an abundance of laws[2] and infractions to pick from that lets them contribute to the mass-incarceation problem. The mass-incarceration problem in turn takes away from the budget, which could be better spent getting people mental help.[3]

Because jails and prisons are not set up to treat issues, and rehabiltion has pretty much been given up on, prisons have essentially become warehouses. Long jail and prison sentences contribute heavily to this, compounding an already over populated and understaffed system.

To be brief, what we got folks don’t work! You want change, make it happen. You are not allowed to have “no way of the world”[4] and still retain rights to complain. Don’t just rely on a vote. Call your Representatives, Senators, Congressional Members, Mayors, and Governors , and demand an overhaul of the entire system. Because this one is obviously broken.

So you are right, we need to stop waiting for people to die.

  1. Also, ever notice that someone must be missing 24hrs before they even start looking? ↩︎

  2. America has so many active laws on its books that not even legal experts have an accurate count, and laws often contradict themselves. ↩︎

  3. Fact: Roughly 40% of people in prisons and jails have a mental health issue that is NOT being treated by the carcerial system. ↩︎

  4. As some well meaning Bible interpeters declare. ↩︎

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If you want fact checked news, try out these resources. (with grain of salt as always)

or even…

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Thank you @Joe-Also

I will check them out.

Peter

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I could not agree with you more.

All I can do is pray. So, praying is all I do.