**This was written 3/24/2021** This week I am joining an amicus brief that is being filed in the U.S. Supreme Court to urge that Court to overturn a decision of the Fourth Circuit about so-called “transgender rights.” The case is Gloucester County School Board v. Gavin Grimm. The Fourth Circuit decision being challenged requires public schools to allow persons claiming transgender status to use the bathrooms, locker rooms, and showers of the opposite sex.
As a person who lived for decades as a transgender person, I feel compelled to set out my views. The Plaintiff in this case started this litigation when she was in high school, and has grown up in the shadow of the litigation she began. I know something about this type of situation, and this type of person.
First, my heart breaks for this young lady! I have reviewed the decision in that case and can relate. But my comments are more general, not particularly applicable to her, but certainly to others who are in her place.
All too often people in this situation have been traumatized by something or someone so much so that it feels best to do whatever she can to not be herself. She is seeking attention. The attention received by being able to use the nurse’s bathroom (single use bathroom) was not ‘attention getting’ enough and so she now demands (literally) that she be able to use the boys’ bathroom.
If she is successful in this, then students will know that they can make demands, regardless of the security or well-being of themselves and others, and that if they yell loud enough and write articles for the ACLU, then they too can have their demands met and be the center of attention.
No matter how many times that a girl says she is a boy, that does not change her DNA or the over 6,500 chromosome markers that make her distinctly female! It is not genitals here..... there are over 6,500 markers that make this young lady female! She can mutilate her genitalia but she can never change her DNA, chromosome markers or the fact that she was created to be, is & always will be a female.
There are tens of thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands) of “Gavins” in this world that have felt like they no longer wanted to be who, and what, they were.... they denied their identity and identified as the opposite sex.... they transitioned and are now seeking a way to DE-transition and return their bodies to some sense of normalcy after the horrendous invasion of puberty blockers (experimental drugs) and cross sex hormone treatment.
Placing a female in the midst of teenage boys that are driven by their own hormonal rages and lusts could very possibly put this young lady in harm’s way. And to wait and see if something happens would place this court and the school liable should there be any type of attack or trauma.
Men do not belong in women’s bathrooms or girls’ locker rooms due to the very nature of danger those women & girls would be placed in should this “right” be abused. Why would we place a young girl who is suffering from gender dysphoria (confusion) in danger by placing her in a boys’ bathroom? Why would we promote, encourage or celebrate her mental delusion/disorder?
Those with this problem need intense therapy — not to be placed into a situation that will only create more confusion, pain and possibly death by suicide (or worse). She is a female and must be recognized as such or the court, the ACLU, her parents, etc... will all be doing her a huge disservice. Not to mention they should all be held accountable for her future sufferings, because she will suffer in the future as long as her disorder is not treated.
This young woman has a condition that needs treatment, not one that needs to be encouraged which will further damage her. Gender dysphoria is a condition, a mental health disorder.
This doesn’t even account for the boys who are insecure, confused, and seeking attention as well... what about their rights to privacy and a place where they won’t feel judged or ridiculed by female students being present? The bathrooms & locker rooms have always been that refuge for those boys.
I believed (sincerely) myself to be a female for well over 20 years. I lived as a “trans-woman”. I truly and purely believed to my core that I was a woman trapped in a man’s body, until reality visited me, and I recognized that my identity crisis was due to traumatic events in my childhood.
It was easiest for me to escape reality of who, and what, I was by pretending to be someone or something else. As a man that has detransitioned and been made whole again, I can truly say that I am so happy that my family, school, healthcare professionals, and those around me did not accept or promote my confusion.
Who knows if I would have survived the horrible effects of puberty blockers (experimental drugs), cross sex hormones, procedures, etc., had I been misled by all of those who were meant to protect me, like this young lady is being misled and used as a pawn for a political and legal argument.
The entire argument is really not about the bathroom; this young lady is crying out for attention and for someone to come to her rescue and help her, while the ACLU is using her suffering to promote and push a political and legal argument this young lady is being mentally, emotionally and politically abused in the name of “inclusivity”.
I don’t know all the facts of this case, but my heart breaks for this young woman, and others like her, who are a victim in so many ways. Let’s pray the Supreme Court does not pile on, thinking it is being compassionate, only to victimize her further.
David of i Belong Amen Ministries.
As a person who lived for decades as a transgender person, I feel compelled to set out my views. The Plaintiff in this case started this litigation when she was in high school, and has grown up in the shadow of the litigation she began. I know something about this type of situation, and this type of person.
First, my heart breaks for this young lady! I have reviewed the decision in that case and can relate. But my comments are more general, not particularly applicable to her, but certainly to others who are in her place.
All too often people in this situation have been traumatized by something or someone so much so that it feels best to do whatever she can to not be herself. She is seeking attention. The attention received by being able to use the nurse’s bathroom (single use bathroom) was not ‘attention getting’ enough and so she now demands (literally) that she be able to use the boys’ bathroom.
If she is successful in this, then students will know that they can make demands, regardless of the security or well-being of themselves and others, and that if they yell loud enough and write articles for the ACLU, then they too can have their demands met and be the center of attention.
No matter how many times that a girl says she is a boy, that does not change her DNA or the over 6,500 chromosome markers that make her distinctly female! It is not genitals here..... there are over 6,500 markers that make this young lady female! She can mutilate her genitalia but she can never change her DNA, chromosome markers or the fact that she was created to be, is & always will be a female.
There are tens of thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands) of “Gavins” in this world that have felt like they no longer wanted to be who, and what, they were.... they denied their identity and identified as the opposite sex.... they transitioned and are now seeking a way to DE-transition and return their bodies to some sense of normalcy after the horrendous invasion of puberty blockers (experimental drugs) and cross sex hormone treatment.
Placing a female in the midst of teenage boys that are driven by their own hormonal rages and lusts could very possibly put this young lady in harm’s way. And to wait and see if something happens would place this court and the school liable should there be any type of attack or trauma.
Men do not belong in women’s bathrooms or girls’ locker rooms due to the very nature of danger those women & girls would be placed in should this “right” be abused. Why would we place a young girl who is suffering from gender dysphoria (confusion) in danger by placing her in a boys’ bathroom? Why would we promote, encourage or celebrate her mental delusion/disorder?
Those with this problem need intense therapy — not to be placed into a situation that will only create more confusion, pain and possibly death by suicide (or worse). She is a female and must be recognized as such or the court, the ACLU, her parents, etc... will all be doing her a huge disservice. Not to mention they should all be held accountable for her future sufferings, because she will suffer in the future as long as her disorder is not treated.
This young woman has a condition that needs treatment, not one that needs to be encouraged which will further damage her. Gender dysphoria is a condition, a mental health disorder.
This doesn’t even account for the boys who are insecure, confused, and seeking attention as well... what about their rights to privacy and a place where they won’t feel judged or ridiculed by female students being present? The bathrooms & locker rooms have always been that refuge for those boys.
I believed (sincerely) myself to be a female for well over 20 years. I lived as a “trans-woman”. I truly and purely believed to my core that I was a woman trapped in a man’s body, until reality visited me, and I recognized that my identity crisis was due to traumatic events in my childhood.
It was easiest for me to escape reality of who, and what, I was by pretending to be someone or something else. As a man that has detransitioned and been made whole again, I can truly say that I am so happy that my family, school, healthcare professionals, and those around me did not accept or promote my confusion.
Who knows if I would have survived the horrible effects of puberty blockers (experimental drugs), cross sex hormones, procedures, etc., had I been misled by all of those who were meant to protect me, like this young lady is being misled and used as a pawn for a political and legal argument.
The entire argument is really not about the bathroom; this young lady is crying out for attention and for someone to come to her rescue and help her, while the ACLU is using her suffering to promote and push a political and legal argument this young lady is being mentally, emotionally and politically abused in the name of “inclusivity”.
I don’t know all the facts of this case, but my heart breaks for this young woman, and others like her, who are a victim in so many ways. Let’s pray the Supreme Court does not pile on, thinking it is being compassionate, only to victimize her further.
David of i Belong Amen Ministries.
