BY KATHLEEN GILBERT
Wed Dec 14, 2011 15:57 EST
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| Wyatt Maines with his twin brother Jonas before his transition to "Nicole." |
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| Wyatt with his twin brother Jonas now. |
BOSTON, December 14, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A front-page story on the Boston Globe’s Sunday edition highlighted the work of a prestigious Massachusetts hospital which blocked and altered the development of one young boy’s body to match his self-identification as a girl.
Wyatt Maines, now 14 years old, is the identical twin of brother Jonas - but thanks to powerful hormone blocking drugs, he is now five inches shorter and several pounds lighter than Jonas, sports more feminine features, and goes by the name “Nicole.” “The thought of being a boy makes me cringe,’’ said Maines. “I just couldn’t do it.’’ Click "here" for the complete article.
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Every time I read an article about a medical doctor changing the sexual identity both mentally and physically of a child under the disguise of "gender identity disorder (GID) " it makes me literally ill at my stomach. Do these young children really have the ability to determine whether or not they were born a boy in a girls body or a girl born in a boys body?
Please read this article regarding these two twin boys and tell me what your opinion is regarding sex changes in young children. It has become a "Norm" for this perverse and wicked world to take what God has created as "Good" and change it to the "Evil" desires of man.
19 comments:
I grieve for this child. What is going on in his life? At 14, children go through all kinds of emotional states. They think girls hate them, they think maybe they are not good enough, and have all kinds of insecurities and fears that they have to work out.
This is not acting out, but a forever change. If he thought life was complicated before, it just got worst.
It is our responsibility, as adults, to support children to give them a godly outlook on life and that they are precious. There are no adults in this situation that are in control, they are all acting on emotional changes a child is going through and in doing so manipulating his body to act out scenereos they have written for his life.
Once again man judges God as having messed up. The efforts to fix what they consider God's mistake cause even worse problems than what they call a mistake. The problem is still man's sin, not a mistake by God.
There is so much crap like this going on now. It defies understanding. Life is a precious gift from God, and mankind treats it this way?
Here I try to see the problem from the child's perspective. He thought that he should have been a girl and really believes that he is one, but was trapped in a boy's body. It was purely psychological. What is more interesting is that he is has a twin brother, I assume, identical. If that being the case, then both arose from a single egg fertilised by a single sperm. So genetics had nothing to do with his condition, neither any other biological factors.
The point is not whether God had "dropped a clanger" in creation or not, although we as Christians know for certain that God never errs in creation, for as David once wrote, "You have formed me in my mother's womb, I am fearfully and wonderfully made" Ps. 139:14.
Rather, it was his own rejection of his gender, something only God and the boy himself knows why.
Yes, I agree with you that such an issue is disgusting, but then again, no more disgusting than the sins we have committed which brings in the need of a Saviour.
The boy's real problem was his sinful nature and his need for his awareness of his sins, along with forgiveness and the knowledge of acceptance of his male gender first by God and then by himself. This can only come through regeneration of his heart and being filled with the Holy Spirit, along with assurance of his salvation and his gender.
Even now as a girl, Jesus can still save him/her by faith, and only the Holy Spirit can direct this person to fulfilling God's will, even as a girl. And none of us have any right to judge.
I'd be called a whole lot of names by some folks for saying this, but I don't have read the article to recognize a boy with mental problems and parents and medical personnel with no morals.
the consequences of evolutionary teaching on display. Our Creator has made each of us with much more than plumbing that distinguishes us as males or females.
I'm going to repost a verse from above: Psalms 139:14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. (KJV) Our perfect and wonderful God does not make mistakes with his creations. I am completely against tampering with our Father's plans or designs. This is a tragedy!
This is sickening
I agree wholeheartedly with what has been said, and particularly with Beacon2Light's comment. The evolutionary worldview gives rise to gross error, because taken to its logical conclusion, it diminishes human beings to mere mechanisms the product of chance mutation rather than precious individuals created in the image of God.
Lloyd, thank you so much for your very kind words on my blog about my uncle. I KNOW that he is with the Lord now. He was a great man, so quiet and unassuming, and everything he did was to help others less fortunate than himself, and he left such a rich legacy in so many who loved him. His funeral was a wonderful celebration of a life lived to the full, and a joyful gathering together of his entire family (with the exception of my parents who were too ancient to make the journey). A day never to be forgotten! I printed out my blog post about him and gave it to my aunt, and it's already going around the family. I feel deeply privileged to have known him. The Lord gives; the Lord takes away; Blessed be the Name of the Lord!
Shoshi
Lloyd, thanks for inviting me to visit your blog; and also for visiting my blog. It's great to be in touch with fellow believers in Christ and to realize that with our blogs, we can let the world know of the love of God in Christ. You have a "brave" blog! Carry on, brother! God bless you!
Hi Lloyd,
This truly is particularly disturbing. The part that concerns me most is that this sin can do irreparable damage to a young person for life. Not to say God won't/can't save a person who has done this to their bodies. Only that sin is sin and most often has significant consequences. This boy, and others like him, desparately need Jesus. They need our sympathy and our prayers.
God bless!
Dean
"The Maines family said they opted for the treatment to remedy young Wyatt’s gender identity disorder (GID), recognized as a psychiatric condition by the American Psychiatric Association. The APA’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual states that only a very small number of children with GID maintain the symptoms into later adolescence or adulthood."
The above atatement clearly refers to what the boy is going through as a DISORDER. That means the responsible parent would seek therapy/counseling..They should be charged with child abuse and endangerment!!!
If that same child were to claim that he can hear God speaking to him, they would put him into therapy and on medication in a heartbeat!
Yes I agree with you Lloyd and how the devil must rejoice in this stupidity. I was in a hospital with my daughter in Thailand and many many boys over there have sex changes to become women.. It honestly makes me sick.
Hi, Lloyd - thanks for your kind words on my blog. Whenever I hear about something like this, it makes me sad. What has happened in their life to make them think that changing their gender will fix things? And the child may want this now, but what if he changes his mind later? What if he realizes that God didn't make a mistake when He created him? A teens brain is not fully developed at that age and teens are not known for making the best decisions. What void is this child trying to fill?
this is quite sad...nice sharing here..thanks for following..reciprocated...happy holidays too!
"Endocrinologist Norman Spack, co-founder of the Gender Management Services Clinic at Children’s Hospital in Boston, began blocking Wyatt’s development at age 11 to ensure no masculine features arose."
I have an 11 year old daughter. She goes through phases as often as the moon. I don't understand where the parents are in this situation! 11 years old. That's when they began treatments, which to me would mean far earlier than that, perhaps years, the child was wanting this done. I just can not accept it to be a fact of GID at that early in life. I'm sorry.
This truly is a tragedy and as someone mentioned before about tampering with God's creation, it's an entrapment from the start! I know once this child finds God, he/she will be able to follow through with the Master's plan. Still even though he/she can do that, it's not what God intended for him as a male. It's a sad sad situation.
Let's all come together and pray for this child. There is a long road ahead and he will need all the prayers we can dish out.
Thank you, Lloyd for visiting my blog and becoming a follower. I'm a new follower of yours now too.
Have a very wonderful Christmas!
And these signs will accompany those who believe:... they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well.” Matt 16:17 &18
You’re right Lloyd – best stay clear of those doctors. Thankfully Scripture tells us that the sign of those who believe will be that they will be able to heal the sick. The Scripture doesn’t say anything about one ‘miracle cure’ every once and a while, that can’t be explained, but that ALL believers will be able to heal.
So I suppose you stay clear of doctors and medicine because you don’t need them, as a believer.
But oddly enough, because to follow this Scripture would mean putting your money where your mouth is – in that it would be costly. So plump for the ‘easy’ morality of whining on about ‘sexual immorality’. So much interest in the morality of others make me wonder what is wrong in the lives of those full of condemnation for something that doesn’t concern them. What secrets are there behind closed doors or the recesses of the closed mind... I shudder to think.
P.
I want to know what the deal is with this father? He said he was "losing his son." Well...why would he stand by and allow that? God placed him as the head of his home. He says he wasn't always "on board." Well, Mr. Maines, you had every God given right to put a stop to this madness before someone mutilated your son.
This type of nonsense shouldn't be allowed in adults, much less children.
I agree with everything everyone else has written. I wish I could say I was shocked by this and although it makes me sick to my stomach, I can say it is only a product of the wretched, sinful world we live in. Unfortunately, the sickos in this world take every opportunity they can to cram this crap down our throats, like an article I read they other day trying to tell us about "gay penguins" or the push by change.org to try to get Sesame Street to admit Bert and Ernie were gay.
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