Son Joseph over at the blog of the Cincinnati church plant he serves, Christ Church, has written an excellent post that begins...
Cincinnati Children's Hospital is on the cutting edge of many things, so it's surprising to see them embrace treatments that were tried and found ineffective in the 1970s. It's particularly surprising when the treatments leave the patient sterile for the rest of his or her life. Worse still to realize that the treatments are performed on children, that the doctors know full well what the outcome will be, and that they continue only because of political pressure. This is not a life-saving treatment. This is not an emergency operation. This is not a last resort.
I am referring to the practice of sex-reassignment surgery and the administration of puberty-delaying hormones to young children, intended to make that surgery easier.
And here's the kicker. Studies show that 70-80% of children that express transgender feelings "spontaneously lost those feelings." In other words, a large majority of children with this problem get better all on their own at some point.
And did I mention that this has been tried before? Way back in 1965 Johns Hopkins University began to perform these surgeries. After studying the outcomes, in 1979 they finally stopped mutilating people...
Tim serves Clearnote Church, Bloomington, Indiana. He and Mary Lee have five children and big lots of grandchildren.
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