Recently, I came across the story of a
14-year-old American “girl”, Jazz
Jennings, who was born a boy, but did
a sex change to transmute to a girl.
According to the story, Jazz started
“leaning toward a feminine side at
only 15 months old (hmmm).
By age two, Jazz started to verbalize
her feelings that ‘she was a girl,’ and
by five she was one of the youngest
people ever to be diagnosed with
gender dysphoria a persistent unease
with the characteristics of one’s
gender, accompanied by a strong
identification with the opposite
gender.” Jazz’s parents allowed her
transition to a girl while he was still in
kindergarten.
After reading the story, many
questions came to my mind: Does God
make mistakes? If He does, what then
differentiates Him from sinful man,
since many sins actually result from
mistakes? Why did God encase a
girl’s behavior and tendencies in a
boy’s body, as the diagnosis seems to
suggest? Were the parents not too
hasty in allowing the transition? Are
there no other remedies? Is there even
such a thing as gender dysphoria?
The writer of the story did not help me
in my quest for answers, for she asks,
“What defines gender?” I would simply
have answered biology, but she
continues: Is it biology, the heart and
mind or a combination of both?” One
even needs to be cautious when using
the term “gender” as it is not
necessarily interchangeable with
“sex” in describing male and female.
Oxford Dictionary says that “although
the words gender and sex both have
the sense, ‘the state of being male or
female’, they are typically used in
different ways: sex tends to refer to
biological differences, while gender
tends to refer to cultural or social
ones”.
There is no doubt that we must love
and support our children, so that is not
the issue here, but must we support
their wrong decisions and tendencies?
How do you just allow little and
inexperienced children, who have not
reached age of reason, take life-
changing decisions based on feelings?
If Jazz had undergone proper therapy
and had been properly counseled,
would he have walked this path? And if
he had been allowed to come of age
and experience the natural pleasure
embedded in the union of man and
woman, would he still have taken the
decision to change to a female? Now
that he is female, can she get
pregnant? Does she even have a
womb? Can she breastfeed? Does she
feel like a natural female? Can she
enjoy sex like a natural female do?
Why are American parents
surrendering without a “fight”? At 13
years, Earvin Johnson III, son of
American basketball legend, Magic
Johnson, told the parents he was gay
and the parents “showed
understanding and gave him all the
support he needed.” How much does a
13-year-old know about gayism? For
all you care, the young man was just
following what he saw as a trend.
Unfortunately, unless he retraces his
steps, Earvin will never know the
opportunity cost of his ill-timed
decision. Now the “incredibly
supportive family” of a two-year-old
“decided to embrace her inner feelings
and allowed her to start transitioning
from male to female while she was
only in kindergarten.” We live in a free
world and we should respect people’s
decisions, even if nauseating and
unacceptable, but these children
taking weighty decisions…hmmm.
Children are intuitive and amenable;
you cannot just take what they say
hook, line and sinker; you probe and
dig deeper until you get to the root of
the matter.
Western societies have gone to the
extremes; they have turned liberty,
freedom and human rights in the head.
The saying that “too much of
everything is bad” cannot be truer in
these circumstances. Freedom must
go with concomitant responsibility;
their freedom has too little
responsibility attached to it and even
that little is skewed. Their value
orientation is also terrible. Jazz has
become a celebrity and an advocate
for transgender American students and
“young people with gender dysphoria.”
Almighty Time Magazine named her
among the 25 Most Influential Teens of
2014. She has been interviewed by top
American news anchors and talk show
hosts, including Barbara Walters! The
family in the west is facing clear and
present dangers.
Thank God, our many drawbacks
notwithstanding, the Nigerian parent
will not surrender in these situations
without a very good fight. Some will
conduct numerous vigils and prayer
sessions, engage prayer warriors and
pastors; others will book masses, pray
countless decades of the rosary and
do novenas until the “demon is chased
away.” I do not even want to document
the extremes some parents will go to
drive some sense into these
children’s heads. I have not heard any
reported case of gender dysphoria in
Nigeria, but we live in a global village,
so these things are never far away.
Parents must equip themselves to
adequately tackle challenges, known
and unknown, that inevitably come
with parenting and there are myriads
of such challenges.
I look at gender dysphoria with
suspicion. I feel it is just another
concept to justify and ram all kinds of
western aberrations down our throats?
But let us even give them the benefit
of the doubt that gender dysphoria
could result from genetic mutation or
other natural defects. The question is
are there no other and better remedies
than sex change? What is more
natural? Going through a sex change,
or therapy to connect and harmonise
the sufferers’ nature with his feelings?
Back to our question, did God make a
mistake with Jazz? Impossible, God
does not make mistakes. Jazz’s
parents simply allowed their skewed
value orientation to mislead them.
There is a problem when an
inexperienced kindergarten pupil
leads grown up adults by the nose on
very weighty issues. Also God did not
feature in their decision making. The
day God starts to make mistakes,
mankind is doomed.
14-year-old American “girl”, Jazz
Jennings, who was born a boy, but did
a sex change to transmute to a girl.
According to the story, Jazz started
“leaning toward a feminine side at
only 15 months old (hmmm).
By age two, Jazz started to verbalize
her feelings that ‘she was a girl,’ and
by five she was one of the youngest
people ever to be diagnosed with
gender dysphoria a persistent unease
with the characteristics of one’s
gender, accompanied by a strong
identification with the opposite
gender.” Jazz’s parents allowed her
transition to a girl while he was still in
kindergarten.
After reading the story, many
questions came to my mind: Does God
make mistakes? If He does, what then
differentiates Him from sinful man,
since many sins actually result from
mistakes? Why did God encase a
girl’s behavior and tendencies in a
boy’s body, as the diagnosis seems to
suggest? Were the parents not too
hasty in allowing the transition? Are
there no other remedies? Is there even
such a thing as gender dysphoria?
The writer of the story did not help me
in my quest for answers, for she asks,
“What defines gender?” I would simply
have answered biology, but she
continues: Is it biology, the heart and
mind or a combination of both?” One
even needs to be cautious when using
the term “gender” as it is not
necessarily interchangeable with
“sex” in describing male and female.
Oxford Dictionary says that “although
the words gender and sex both have
the sense, ‘the state of being male or
female’, they are typically used in
different ways: sex tends to refer to
biological differences, while gender
tends to refer to cultural or social
ones”.
There is no doubt that we must love
and support our children, so that is not
the issue here, but must we support
their wrong decisions and tendencies?
How do you just allow little and
inexperienced children, who have not
reached age of reason, take life-
changing decisions based on feelings?
If Jazz had undergone proper therapy
and had been properly counseled,
would he have walked this path? And if
he had been allowed to come of age
and experience the natural pleasure
embedded in the union of man and
woman, would he still have taken the
decision to change to a female? Now
that he is female, can she get
pregnant? Does she even have a
womb? Can she breastfeed? Does she
feel like a natural female? Can she
enjoy sex like a natural female do?
Why are American parents
surrendering without a “fight”? At 13
years, Earvin Johnson III, son of
American basketball legend, Magic
Johnson, told the parents he was gay
and the parents “showed
understanding and gave him all the
support he needed.” How much does a
13-year-old know about gayism? For
all you care, the young man was just
following what he saw as a trend.
Unfortunately, unless he retraces his
steps, Earvin will never know the
opportunity cost of his ill-timed
decision. Now the “incredibly
supportive family” of a two-year-old
“decided to embrace her inner feelings
and allowed her to start transitioning
from male to female while she was
only in kindergarten.” We live in a free
world and we should respect people’s
decisions, even if nauseating and
unacceptable, but these children
taking weighty decisions…hmmm.
Children are intuitive and amenable;
you cannot just take what they say
hook, line and sinker; you probe and
dig deeper until you get to the root of
the matter.
Western societies have gone to the
extremes; they have turned liberty,
freedom and human rights in the head.
The saying that “too much of
everything is bad” cannot be truer in
these circumstances. Freedom must
go with concomitant responsibility;
their freedom has too little
responsibility attached to it and even
that little is skewed. Their value
orientation is also terrible. Jazz has
become a celebrity and an advocate
for transgender American students and
“young people with gender dysphoria.”
Almighty Time Magazine named her
among the 25 Most Influential Teens of
2014. She has been interviewed by top
American news anchors and talk show
hosts, including Barbara Walters! The
family in the west is facing clear and
present dangers.
Thank God, our many drawbacks
notwithstanding, the Nigerian parent
will not surrender in these situations
without a very good fight. Some will
conduct numerous vigils and prayer
sessions, engage prayer warriors and
pastors; others will book masses, pray
countless decades of the rosary and
do novenas until the “demon is chased
away.” I do not even want to document
the extremes some parents will go to
drive some sense into these
children’s heads. I have not heard any
reported case of gender dysphoria in
Nigeria, but we live in a global village,
so these things are never far away.
Parents must equip themselves to
adequately tackle challenges, known
and unknown, that inevitably come
with parenting and there are myriads
of such challenges.
I look at gender dysphoria with
suspicion. I feel it is just another
concept to justify and ram all kinds of
western aberrations down our throats?
But let us even give them the benefit
of the doubt that gender dysphoria
could result from genetic mutation or
other natural defects. The question is
are there no other and better remedies
than sex change? What is more
natural? Going through a sex change,
or therapy to connect and harmonise
the sufferers’ nature with his feelings?
Back to our question, did God make a
mistake with Jazz? Impossible, God
does not make mistakes. Jazz’s
parents simply allowed their skewed
value orientation to mislead them.
There is a problem when an
inexperienced kindergarten pupil
leads grown up adults by the nose on
very weighty issues. Also God did not
feature in their decision making. The
day God starts to make mistakes,
mankind is doomed.
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