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BY Maria Kneas and Lois Putnam
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TRANSGENDERISM and Our Children
By Maria Kneas and Lois Putnam
Marilyn, a 70ish grandmother, walked through
the international airport in Denver, Colorado, thinking about the
flight she would be taking in less than an hour. She noticed a young
couple up ahead and saw that the man had a baby in a front pack. The
baby looked to be around six months old and was peering out at the
moving crowd of people. Marilyn stopped when she reached the couple
(she never could resist babies) and said, “What a darling baby that
is. Is it a boy or a girl?”
The father looked Marilyn in the eye and said,
“We don’t believe in gender labeling for babies, so for now it is just
“baby” until it is old enough to decide whether it wants to be a boy
or a girl.” Marilyn was speechless and shocked. She looked deep into
the man’s eyes, hoping for some understanding. She tried to respond,
but her words were frozen. As she walked away, still in shock, she
pondered on the future of that little child and knew she had just
witnessed a tragedy. This true account is unfortunately indicative of
the times in which we live.
Transgender
By Maria Kneas
The Bible says, “God is not the author of
confusion” (1 Corinthians 14:33). Therefore, anything that promotes it
is in opposition to God and His ways. If you want to see some serious
confusion in action, then look at a photo of a bearded man wearing a
dress and high heels.1
In the Bible, God makes clear distinctions
between light and darkness, good and evil, male and female, adults and
children, animals and humans, plants and animals, living and
inanimate. These distinctions or separations are clearly important to
God, and anything that attempts to destroy these distinctions is
trying to undermine foundational principles that God established. Such
efforts constitute rebellion against God, and the end result is
attacks against Christians who try to live according to biblical
principles and morality. This is part of what Dr. Henry Morris calls
“the long war against God.”2
The transgender movement is a prime example of
this conflict because the stated goal of transgender activists is to
“burn the binary.” By that, they mean making people become incapable
of thinking in terms of male and female. In an article titled, “We’ll
Win the Bathroom Battle When the Binary Burns” written by Riki
Wilchins (an activist who has gone through sex change surgery), he
describes this as being the “dominant, hetero-binary structure of boy
vs. girl.”3
This kind of thinking can make your head spin,
but you did read that correctly. There are some people out there who
literally want to get our society to the point where we become
incapable of thinking in terms of male versus female. They don’t want
us to be able to tell the difference between boys and girls (and
definitely not to say it publicly), and they want to train children to
think like that at early ages. They also want to punish Christian
parents who try to protect their children from this. In reality, the
transgender movement has made Christianity and what it stands for its
sworn enemy.
There are also other movements which are trying
to destroy the distinctions that God created. For example, there are
attempts to legalize pedophilia.4 This denies the differences between
children and adults. There are efforts, which confuse animals with
humans, to legalize bestiality,5 to give animals the right to file
lawsuits,6 and to combine human and animal DNA.7 There are even
attempts to erase the distinctions between living creatures and
inanimate things (e.g., New Zealand has given citizenship to a river,8
and Saudi Arabia has given citizenship to a human-looking robot named
Sophia9).
Thus, the transgender movement is part of a
broader, more far-reaching attempt to make people become unable to
rationally relate to the world God created. This deliberate denial of
reality is opposed to reason, biblical morality, and common sense.
Transgenderism is especially harmful because it results in undermining
the sanity, faith, and morals of children, starting at very young
ages. A growing number of American public schools are pushing
transgenderism on five-year-olds in kindergarten.10 In England, this
is being done to two-year-old children.11
The Williams Institute is a public policy
research institute and lobby group based at the UCLA School of Law. It
was created to promote the LGBT agenda. One of their scholars wrote
an article saying that three and a half percent of American adults
identify as being lesbian, homosexual, or bisexual, and 0.3% of adults
identify as being transgender.12 That means that less than one-third
of one percent of adults identify as being transgender.
How can such a small group have such a huge
impact on our culture? What are the goals of these activists? And how
is this going to impact Christians?
Kaeley Triller Haver is the Co-Founder of Hands
Across the Aisle Women’s Coalition. She says that the transgender
movement is “religious indoctrination of a cult-like nature.”13 That
makes sense to me because I have a friend whose brother got trapped in
Scientology. The level of intensity, delusion, and propaganda
involved with transgender activism reminds me of the kind of
heavy-duty pressure and brainwashing that my friend’s brother went
through in Scientology. He tried to get out, but they were able to
force him to stay.
Jane Robbins is a senior fellow at the American
Principles Project. She says that the transgender movement is
creating social chaos by undermining families, parental rights, and
“the very foundations of human existence.” She calls it “a diabolical
but ingenious way of remaking society.”14
As we will see below, transgenderism is the
beginning of a kind of denial of reality that expands to include race,
age, and species (human versus animal). Eventually, it winds up with
people who claim to be things that don’t even exist. Once upon a time,
people who seriously denied reality like this were said to be
delusional or mentally ill. But now, some people are trying to
normalize such delusions and make them become politically correct.
We all need to develop the ability to deal with
painful realities. For example, I’m a cancer survivor. Years ago, I
had radical surgery, followed by chemotherapy. That was a painful
process to go through, but it saved my life. If I had decided to
“identify” as being healthy instead of taking care of that very real
problem, then I would have died a slow and painful death.
When people deny reality, the loving thing to
do is to help them deal with it in realistic ways—not go along with
their delusions. Having us agree with their delusions may make them
feel better for the moment, but the long-term results can be
catastrophic. Truth trumps feelings.
A Continuum of Denying Reality
TRANS-GENDER: When men imagine
they are women (or vice versa), that is transgender. Instead of
trying to get their thinking to line up with reality, these people try
to force reality to change in order to line up with their
imagination. This starts out with wearing different clothing and
eventually can wind up with people getting sex-change surgery and
taking hormones in order to try to look like what they feel like. But
“trans” goes even further than that. For example, some people think
they are an animal trapped inside a human’s body. And some people have
found other ways to try to re-define themselves.
I’m going to describe some very strange things.
You may want to see them with your own eyes, so I have provided all
of these with endnotes giving Internet articles and links. If you go
to these articles, you will be able to see lots of photos.
TRANS-AGE: A married man with
seven children decided he is really a six-year-old girl. He left his
wife and children and has found an older couple who took him in.15 A
grown man with children believes he is a child, and in order to live
out his fantasy, he has abandoned his wife and seven children.
TRANS-RACE: Rachel Dolezal was
born white, but she identifies as being black. She used to work for
the NAACP, but when it was discovered that she was really white, she
lost her job. She is calling for “racial fluidity” to be accepted.16
The state of Delaware is proposing an education
regulation that allows children to self-identify their gender and
race without the knowledge or consent of their parents. That includes
attending gender-specific classes about sexuality and participating in
sports as members of their self-chosen gender.17 In other words, a
white girl can formally claim to be a black boy (or vice versa) and
act accordingly without having her parents know anything about it.
TRANS-SPECIES: The early stage
of trans-species can be seen in “human pups.” These are people who
dress up like dogs. They can take this to extremes such as sleeping in
a dog training crate. There are thousands of “human pups” in England
alone. “Furries” carry this a step further and take on the persona of
the animal. This can include sexual behavior. A “fur” convention in
Reno, Nevada drew 3,000 people, 700 of whom were in “fursuits.”18
With the “fur pups” and even with the “furries,”
there is strange thinking and behavior, but it is reversible. If
these people change their thinking, then they can take off their
costumes and go back to a relatively normal life. However, there are
other people who make drastic changes that cannot be reversed. We see
that with the transgender people who get sex-change surgery. Clothing
can be changed, and hormone therapy can be reversed, but the surgery
is permanent.
There is a man who believes he is a tiger
trapped inside a human body. He has gotten his entire body and face
tattooed to look more like a tiger. He has had surgery and dental work
done so that his face and teeth look more tigerish. He has gotten
false whiskers implanted into his face.19
Another man identifies with his pet parrot so
much so that he got his ears cut off in order to look more like him.
He also got his face and eyeballs tattooed, and he wants to get
surgery in order to make his nose look more like a beak.20
TRANS-REALITY: There is a man
(who became a transgender woman) who believes he is a female dragon
trapped in a man’s body. He has had his ears and nose removed in order
to look more like a dragon. He has extensive tattoos, including eye
coloring, and he has a forked tongue.21 This man also has a child, a
beautiful little boy. I can’t imagine what this must be doing to his
son.
Who Defines Reality?
According to the Bible, God created everything.
Therefore, God is the one who defines reality. The oldest sin in the
book is to want
to be like God (Genesis 3:5). That is what led to the fall of Adam and Eve, and it’s also what caused Lucifer to fall.
When the Bible describes a time of lawlessness
and apostasy in ancient Israel, it says that “every man did that which
was right in his own eyes” (Judges 17:6). The problem was that men
were trying to define right and wrong for themselves instead of
accepting what God has to say about it.
Have you ever noticed how many times in the
Bible God tells people what is right and what is wrong? The point is
that we don’t see the really big picture; only God does. And
therefore, only He is qualified to determine what is right and what is
wrong. Our job is to take what God says to heart and try to live by
it. God told us:
For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are
higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my
thoughts than your thoughts. (Isaiah 55:8-9)
Most transgenders (and trans-speciesists, etc.)
probably don’t realize it, but when they try to define who or what
they are themselves, instead of accepting the way that God created
them, they are trying to play God. They are setting themselves up
above God. That is a recipe for moral and spiritual disaster, and it
can have devastating practical consequences.
For example, what will happen to children in
Delaware who try to change their gender and/or their race without
telling their parents? What will happen to that little boy whose
father claims to be a female dragon? Is that his daddy or his mommy?
Or is he living with a dragon? And what will happen to the children of
that man who now claims to be a six-year-old girl? That level of
rejection and abandonment must be devastating, and their father’s
example of denying reality could set them on the path for tragic
events in their lives.
People who are afflicted with such problems
need our prayers. The loving thing to do is to try to help them
overcome their delusions and become what God created them to be.
God knows what He is doing. When He created us,
He did not make a mistake. He knew what we should be. Our job is to
come into agreement with God.
Weaponizing Sexual Anarchy
Like humanism and communism,22 sexual anarchy23
activists want to destroy Christianity and undermine Christian
morality. Sexual anarchy of all kinds is being used as a weapon to
attack Christianity. The transgender activists seem to be especially
adept at creating a lot of chaos in a short time.
With communism, we can look at their goals to
see how they overlap with those of the transgender movement. On
January 10, 1963, a congressman read 45 communist goals into the
Congressional Record. These were excerpted from Cleon Skousen’s book
The Naked Communist. They include the following:
Undermine cultural standards of morality
Make LGBT behavior appear to be “normal, natural, healthy”
Infiltrate churches and undermine belief in the Bible
Discredit and undermine the family
Reduce parental influence over children
Take control of the psychiatric profession and use it to control people24
The Bottom Line
When God set boundaries for our identity and
our sexuality, He did that in order to protect us. What people have
been doing makes it all too obvious that fallen human beings need
God’s protection. We need to do things God’s way, as described in the
Bible. If we don’t do that, then we will self-destruct, and we are
likely to harm others in the process.
The sexual anarchy movement is producing
“experts” who want to tell us what to think and how to live. However,
God knows more about us than such people do. Therefore, we need to
trust what God says in the Bible instead of falling prey to the
delusions of self-proclaimed “experts.”
“I Am Jazz”
By Lois Putnam
In Sacramento, California at the Rocklin Academy charter school, a kindergarten teacher read the transgender picture book
I Am Jazz;
and after reading it, she presented a little boy to the class as now
being a little girl. You can imagine how perplexing and unsettling
this incident was to these little ones as well as to their uninformed
parents.
A board meeting at the school caused a huge
confrontation between upset parents and a defensive teacher and school
board. In the end, the board boldly asserted that topics dealing with
“gay, lesbian and transgender issues” are open for discussion at
Rocklin and that parents may not always be notified before such
discussions occur. The board also maintained that opting out of these
discussions promotes a “discriminatory environment . . . prohibited by
law.”1
On December 7, 2017, nationwide “Community/School Readings” of
I Am Jazz
took place in schools, libraries, LGBTQ centers, houses of worship, and
homes.2 The book is the true story of transgender Jazz Jennings
written for ages 4-8 filled with LGBTQ indoctrination. It is written
to sanction the idea that one can be born with what is known as GD or
“Gender Dysphoria” and that “coming out” and choosing your own gender
can be done even at a preschool age. Inside
I Am Jazz’s cover
jacket, it reads, “From the time she was two years old, Jazz knew
that she had a girl’s brain in a boy’s body.” It continues, “She loved
pink . . . and didn’t feel like herself in boy’s clothing.” It ends,
“This confused her family, until they took her to a doctor who
diagnosed Jazz as transgender and explained that she was born this
way.” These three sentences concisely spell out what the book hopes to
teach.
I Am Jazz’s final page is titled,
“TransKids Purple Rainbow Foundation” and states, “TKPRF is committed
to the premise that Gender Dysphoria is something children can’t
control, and therefore, society needs to embrace them.” It insists,
“Families need to support their children and allow them to grow up
free of gender roles.” This page’s purpose is to convince readers of
the need for transgender acceptance everywhere. Nowhere does it tell
how a growing number of doctors, psychologists, and other
professionals are challenging the claims that people are born this
way. Nor does it tell about the abusive drug cocktail of hormones
trans children later take or the dreadful surgeries that complete the
“transitions.”
Because
I Am Jazz is being used to
propagate the transgender movement, particularly to young children,
let’s take a closer look at this book, the so-called “essential tool
for parents and teachers.”3
I Am Jazz Co-author—Jessica Herthel
Jessica Herthel, the book’s co-author, is a
Broward County, Florida mom of three and an all-out advocate of the
transgender agenda. Herthel, having met Jazz’s mom at a community
function, soon formed a friendship with her and her little boy who
became “a trans girl” renamed “Jazz.” Herthel then went on to co-write
the book with Jazz, telling what it is like to be a trans kid.
As a result of writing
I Am Jazz, Herthel
has become a recognized LGBTQ advocate on many fronts. It began with
her volunteering for the Florida Broward County Schools (sixth largest
district in the USA) where soon she was designing inclusive lesson
plans and purchasing diverse books for elementary classrooms. Later,
she became the primary content editor of “Broward County’s LGBTQ
Critical Support Guide” presented to all district administrators in
2014. After, Herthel worked as the Education Director at the Stonewall
National Museum and Archives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, which is a
nonprofit that shares the culture of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and
transgender people and the role they play in society.
Beyond Florida, Herthel travels nationwide spreading the trans-kids agenda using
I Am Jazz
as a jumping off point. This message has taken her to such diverse
places as: Mt. Horeb Public Library, Mt. Horeb, WI (the Mt. Horeb School
System refused to allow her to read
I Am Jazz in a public
school setting, so it was read in the public library); Temple Bat Yahm,
New Port Beach, CA (welcoming Jewish congregation for all including
the LGBT community); and The Human Rights Campaign “Time to Thrive”
Conference in Dallas, TX. (HRC partnered with the National Education
Association and the American Counseling Association to reach out to
LGBTQ youth.)4
The Human Rights Campaign considers Jazz
Jennings their foundational “Youth Ambassador.” HRC has a website
called www.welcomingschools.org with lesson plans to aid in creating
LGBTQ-inclusive schools. Its “Top 10 Books for a Welcoming School”
includes
I Am Jazz and an accompanying lesson. I would urge
you to check out this site to view this invasive school agenda; while
it gives the appearance of being about safe schools and stopping
bullying, much of its material is about other causes.5
I Am Jazz—Its Transgender Agenda
I Am Jazz is designed to be read to
preschool through grade three, introducing them to transgender ideas.
Herthel begins by presenting Jazz as a “girl” whose favorite color is
pink and who likes girly things like drawing, dancing, and putting on
make up. Most of all, Jazz is mesmerized by “mermaids.”
Now, Jazz’s best friends are Casey and Samantha
with whom Jazz plays dress up in high heels and princess gowns. They
also do fun things like turning cart wheels, or jumping on
trampolines. However, as a “sad-faced Jazz” says, “But, I’m not
exactly like Samantha and Casey.”
To explain, there’s a page of kids’ drawings
showing a very unhappy Jazz. Below this, Herthel unleashes these
troubling sentences, “I have a girl brain, but a boy body. This is
called transgender. I was born this way.”
Herthel records Jazz’s transition saga as a
two-year-old boy starting with Jazz’s mom saying he was a good boy,
and him correcting her as he retorted, “No Mama. Good GIRL!” Herthel
also writes, “At first my family was confused. They’d always thought
of me as a boy.”
The next pages show Jazz’s brothers and sister.
His brothers comment that his dress-up antics are “girls stuff” while
his sister comments that his girl thoughts, dreams, and ambitions
made him “a funny kid.”
Whenever he went out, the text continues, his
parents had him wear his “boy clothes” which made him mad! One then
reads this startling thought, “Pretending I was a boy felt like
telling a lie.” Talk about confusion. Just imagine a child’s
puzzlement to this thought.
Then came “an amazing day” when all was
changed; his parents took him to a doctor who asked many
questions. There, says the text, he heard the word “transgender” for
the first time. His parents heard the words, “Gender Dysphoria.”
That night, relates Jazz, for the first time
his parents told him, “Be who you are.” This caused him to smile and
smile as he went to bed dressed in a girl’s nightgown. Do what you
want, and whatever makes you happy is the sense one gets here, making
one think of Judges 17:6 that reads, “. . . every man did that which
was right in his own eyes.”
The book fast forwards to Jazz at school. Here,
like Jazz’s family, his friends and teachers were “confused.” Upset
with his teacher, Jazz found it hard to have to use the boy’s bathroom
and be on the boy’s teams. Jazz longs to be with Casey and Samantha.
Finally, the teachers change their minds, allowing Jazz to use the
girl’s rest room and to play sports with the girls.
At this point, Jazz shares how mean some of the
children are. “This,” says Jazz, “makes me feel crummy.” Here, of
course, the teacher would stop and talk about not bullying or making
fun of someone who is different. The children listening to
I Am Jazz
are made to take sides with Jazz because “being different like this
is special!” The book ends with a beaming Jazz who declares, “I am
having fun. I am proud.
I am Jazz.”
I Am Jazz—The Celebrity
What has been the result of reading and sharing
this innocent looking, but oh so influential picture book? Well, Jazz
has been promoted as one super star—one courageous reality star (TLC
TV)—one influential teen (
Time Magazine)—one
true to myself person (
I Am Jazz)—one
amazing LGBTQ activist (Human Rights Campaign)—one honorary
co-founder (TransKids Purple Rainbow Foundation)—a trans-kid poster
child. And I must add—one exploited young person!
How sad one feels for a child such as Jazz,
whose parents, believing they were doing this in love, allowed him to
become a trans kid following the world’s upside-down transgender
ideology guidelines, and how much more should the reading of this story
make us mindful of the children suffering because of it. It should
make us want to do all we can to stop others from following in Jazz’s
footsteps. A wonderful verse to memorize and share with children is
found in Psalm 139:14 which reads, “I will praise thee; for I am
fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are thy works; and that my
soul knoweth right well.”
I Am Jazz—The Consequences
This picture story is meant to tug at one’s
heart. Its story leads its readers to believe the lie that children
can be born with gender confusion and that if such behaviors are
sanctioned by a doctor, as in Jazz’s case, even young children can
identify as a trans kid. But this book is only part of the story. For
as a transgender child gets ready for puberty, harmful hormones must
be taken, after which comes invasive surgery. To understand these
procedures, please read quotes from the article referenced below.
Dr. Michelle Cretella is the President of the American College of Pediatricians. A July 3, 2017
Daily Signal article,
“I’m a Pediatrician. How Transgender Ideology Has Infiltrated My
Field and Produced Large Scale Child Abuse” lays out some facts. Dr.
Cretella begins by commenting that transgender ideology not only has
infected our laws ( e.g. bathrooms) but “has intruded into the lives
of the most innocent among us—our children.”6
Dr. Cretella says there’s a “new normal” where
doctors in gender clinics are “affirming children who are distressed
by their biological sex.”7 This condition, she writes, once dubbed
gender-identity disorder, was renamed “gender dysphoria” in 2013. Now,
these doctors, as did Jazz’s doctor, “tell parents to treat their
children as the gender they desire, and to place them on puberty
blockers around 11 or 12 if they are gender dysphoric.”8 And if by
sixteen, they insist they’re trapped in the wrong body, cross-sex
hormones are then given. After, teens as young as sixteen may
have “bottom surgeries” or “sex reassignment surgeries.” As of a
recent piece I read, Jazz is now at this frightening point.
In her article, Dr. Cretella lists eight basic
facts about transgenderism including: twin studies that show no one is
born “trapped in the body of the wrong sex;” puberty blockers have
not proven safe; cross-sex hormones are associated with dangerous
health risks; neuroscience shows youth lack adult ability for risk
assessment; and transition-affirming procedures haven’t solved
transgender suicide. She states that the transition-affirming
movement, said to help children, is inflicting a grave injustice on
them, adding:
These professionals are using the myth that
people are born transgender to justify engaging in massive,
uncontrolled, and unconsented experimentation on children who have a
psychological condition that would otherwise resolve after puberty in
the vast majority of cases.9
Dr. Cretella finishes with these sobering words:
These harms constitute nothing less than
institutional child abuse. Sound ethics demand an immediate end to the
use of pubertal suppression, cross-sex hormones, and sex reassignment
surgeries in children and adolescents, as well as an end to promoting
gender ideology via school curricula and legislative policies. It is
time for our nation’s leaders and the silent majority of health
professionals to learn exactly what is happening to our children, and
unite to take action.10
How about the silent majority of Christians? What are we doing?
Parent’s Response
In the case of the Rocklin Academy reading of
I Am Jazz, parents
banded together to confront the board. When the board declared they
would not necessarily notify parents prior to using such materials, nor
could parents legally opt out of these presentations, many
parents pulled their students out from Rocklin. Parents must work toward
having the right to opt out their students
should gender-related materials be presented just as they now can opt
out when sexual materials are used.11
Fearing harsh reaction to their stories, two Rocklin parents anonymously went to
Fox News’
Martha MacCallum to tell of their children’s reactions to the
academy incident. The first parent told how her daughter, after being
present at that kindergarten reading, while bathing caught a reflection
of herself with her hair slicked back, and tearfully cried she had
changed into a boy. The other parent told how her daughter (now a first
grader) on the playground greeted the “trans girl” that had been
presented in the kindergarten that June day by his male name and was
promptly reprimanded by the principal for “misgendering his new name.”12
In sum, Christian parents must be active at
their schools, be informed of transgender issues, be able to talk with
their own children, be into the Word so as to be able to stand for
truth, and be into prayer for their children, family, and schools.
Teacher’s Response
Christian teachers too must prepare themselves for the time that they will be required to read such a book as
I Am Jazz.
Do your research now. Prayerfully prepare for a coming day when one
must either comply with the godless demands of the public schools or
leave one’s job. As Daniel of old, in whom was found “an excellent
spirit,” one must stand up, and as the old song “Dare to Be a
Daniel” challenged, “Dare to be a Daniel, Dare to stand alone!, Dare to
have a purpose firm! and Dare to make it known!”
In today’s world, there are many who want to
silence “God-fearing upstanders”—school systems and
pressure-group organizations such as the Human Rights Campaign to name
a couple. How is this done? By taking away rights to stand up for
beliefs and by labeling these upstanders with all kinds of names. And
as some do, “shouting you down!” One such eminent doctor, Dr. Paul
McHugh, now 85, has been maligned and mocked and called
a “transphobe.” Why is this? Of “transgender” children, Dr. McHugh
dared to write such things as this:
Misguided doctors at medical centers . . . have
begun to treat this behavior by administrating puberty-delaying
hormones to render later sex surgeries less onerous—even though
the drugs stunt the children’s growth and risk causing sterility.13
Your Responsibility—Be An Upstander, Not A Bystander!
Whether or not you have children or
grandchildren in the public schools, you as a Christian must stand
firm in your convictions. Whether or not the transgender agenda has
yet to come to your school or your school system, you as a Christian
must not be a bystander! Get busy, become familiar with
the transgender movement, and be an upstander—that is one who is not
afraid to stand up for something in which he believes—in this case,
the plight of little children of whom our Lord Jesus said in Matthew
18:6:
But whoso shall offend one of these little
ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were
hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the
sea.
The transgender agenda is already being
practiced in some schools and is soon coming to schools
nationwide. For the sake of our children, we cannot be apathetic; we
must stand up for truth. Remember Paul’s admonition in Ephesians
6:10-11, “Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the
power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be
able to stand against the wiles of the devil.”
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good
evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put
bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! (Isaiah 5:20)
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Endnotes For Maria Kneas’ Section
1. Alasdair Glennie and Jennifer Newton, “Before She Had a Beard” (
Daily Mail,
May 11, 2014; this has several photos of him with a beard wearing
fancy women’s clothing and high heels,
www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2625866/Winner-whisker-Austrias-bearded-lady-conquers-Eurovision-Russias-rage.html).
2. Dr. Henry Morris,
The Long War Against God (Green Forest, AR: Master Books, April 2000).
3. Riki Wilchins, “We’ll Win the Bathroom Battle When the Binary Burns” (
The Advocate, April 29, 2016, www.advocate.com/commentary/2016/4/29/well-win-bathroom-battle-when-binary-burns).
4. Jack Minor, “‘Gay’ Laws Set Stage for
Pedophilia ‘Rights’: Psychologist Claims ‘Minor-attracted Persons’
Normal as Heterosexuals” (
WorldNetDaily, July 18, 2013, www.wnd.com/2013/07/gay-laws-set-stage-for-pedophilia-rights).
5. Pete Winn, “Senate Approves Bill That Legalizes Sodomy and Bestiality in U.S. Military” (
CNS News, December 1, 2011, www.cnsnews.com/news/article/senate-approves-bill-legalizes-sodomy-and-bestiality-us-military).
6. Arin Greenwood, “Chimpanzees Sue For Their Freedom (With a Little Human Help)” (
Huffington Post, December 2, 2013, www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/02/chimpanzee-lawsuit-personhood_n_4369377.html).
7. Rob Stein, “In Search For Cures, Scientists
Create Embryos That Are Both Animal and Human” (NPR, May 16, 2016,
www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/05/18/478212837/in-search-for-cures-scientists-create-embryos-that-are-both-animal-and-human).
8. Kathleen Calderwood, “Why New Zealand is
Granting a River the Same Rights as a Citizen” (ABC, September 6,
2016,
www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/sundayextra/new-zealand-granting-rivers-and-forests-same-rights-as-citizens/7816456).
9. Chris Weller, “A Robot That Once Said it
Would ‘Destroy Humans’ Just Became the First Robot Citizen” (
Business Insider, October 26, 2017, http://nordic.businessinsider.com/sophia-robot-citizenship-in-saudi-arabia-the-first-of-its-kind-2017-10).
10. Margot Cleveland, “The Transgender Agenda Hits Kindergarten” (
National Review, September 4, 2017, www.nationalreview.com/article/451047/transgender-agenda-schools-some-wont-even-let-parents-opt-out).
11. Liam Deacon, “Teachers Warned Not to Say ‘Boys’ or ‘Girls’ as It ‘Reminds Pupils of Gender’” (
Breitbart,
November 23, 2017; this involves two-year-olds in England,
www.breitbart.com/london/2017/11/23/teachers-boys-girls-reminded-pupils-gender).
12. Gary J. Gates, “How Many People Are Lesbian,
Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender?” (The Williams Institute, April 2011,
http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/research/census-lgbt-demographics-studies/how-many-people-are-lesbian-gay-bisexual-and-transgender).
13. Dr. Susan Berry, “Parents and Students Stand Up to Forced Gender Ideology in Schools” (
Breitbart, November 24, 2017, www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/11/24/parents-students-stand-forced-gender-ideology-schools).
14. Ibid.
15.Kate Ng, “Transgender Father Stefonknee
Wolscht Leaves Family in Toronto to Start New Life as Six-Year-Old Girl”
(
The Independent, UK, December 12, 2015,
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/stefonknee-wolschtt-transgender-father-leaves-family-in-toronto-to-start-new-life-as-a-six-year-old-a6769051.html).
16. Lucy Pasha-Robinson, “Rachel Dolezal: White
Woman Who Identifies as Black Calls for ‘Racial Fluidity’ To Be
Accepted” (
The Independent, March 27, 2017,
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/rachel-dolezal-white-woman-black-racial-fluidity-accepted-transracial-naacp-a7653131.html).
17. James Barrett, “Proposed DE Education
Regulation Allows Children To Self-Identify Gender and Race—And
Without Parental Consent” (
The Daily Wire, November 22, 2017, www.dailywire.com/news/23874/proposed-education-regulation-allows-children-self-james-barrett).
18. Chris Summers, “Secret Life of the ‘Human
Pups’: Weird World of the Grown Men Who Enjoy Dressing Up as Dogs in
Roleplay Craze Sweeping the Nation” (
Daily Mail, May 21,
2016,
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3602177/Puppy-play-definitely-not-sex-TV-documentary-sheds-light-barking-mad-men-enjoy-dressing-dogs.html).
19. “Cat Man—the Human ‘Tiger’ Who Enjoys Climbing Trees and Eats Raw Meat Every Day” (
Daily Mail, September 6, 2008, www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1052934/Cat-Man–human-tiger-enjoys-climbing-trees-eats-raw-meat-day.html).
20. Jimmy Nsubuga, “Parrot Man Gets Ears Cut Off So He Can Look More Like a Bird” (
Metro, October 16, 2015, http://metro.co.uk/2015/10/16/parrot-man-gets-ears-cut-off-so-he-can-look-more-like-a-bird-5443835).
21. “Transgender Former Banker, 55, Has Her Ears
and Nose Reformed to Transform into a ‘Dragon Lady’ With Scales, a
Forked Tongue and a Horned Skull” (
Daily Mail, April 5, 2016,
www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3524063/Transgender-woman-Eva-Tiamat-Medusa-ears-nose-removed-dragon-lady.html).
22. See my book
How to Prepare for Hard Times and Persecution to read about the effects of these belief systems. Also see Berit Kjos’ website,
www.crossroad.to, for extensive documentation on humanism and communism.
23. According to the
Urban Dictionary,
the meaning of “sexual anarchy” is: “A school of philosophy and other
thinking that believes that anyone should be free to have sex with
anyone else from one’s relatives, minors, or any other person etc. and
that marriage should be abolished because it is too restrictive”;
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sexual%20anarchy.
24. Donna Calvin, “The 45 Communist Goals as Read Into the Congressional Record, 1963” (April 2011,
http://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/watchwomanonthewall/2011/04/the-45-communist-goals-as-read-into-the-congressional-record-1963.html).
Endnotes For Lois Putnam’s Section
1. One of the news stories that covered the
Rocklin Academy story is Bradford Richardson’s “Rocklin Academy
Doubles Down on Transgender Lessons for Kindergartners” (
Washington Times, September 19, 2017,
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/sep/19/school-defends-transgender-lessons-kindergartners/).
2. Human Rights Campaign, “National
‘I Am Jazz’ School and Community Readings” (
https://www.hrc.org/resources/i-am-jazz-a-guide-for-parents-educators-and-community-advocates).
3. From the publisher’s website:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/315643/i-am-jazz-by-jessica-herthel-illustrated-by-shelagh-mcnicholas/9780803741072.
4.
http://jessicaherthel.com.
5. Also check out the HRC’s
I Am Jazz guidebook:
https://assets2.hrc.org/files/assets/resources/IAmJazz-EventGuide.pdf.
6. Michelle Cretella, “I’m a Pediatrician. How
Transgender Ideology Has Infiltrated My Field and Produced Large Scale
Child Abuse” (
Daily Signal,
http://dailysignal.com/2017/07/03/im-pediatrician-transgender-ideology-infiltrated-field-produced-large-scale-child-abuse).
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. “Rocklin Academy Doubles Down on Transgender Lessons for Kindergartners,” op. cit.
12.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DPTqzb8dLE.
13. Peter LaBarbera, “LGBT Activists Slam ‘the
Most Important Psychiatrist of the Last Half-century’ Because He
Debunks Transgender Ideology” (
Lifesite News, May 15, 2017,
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/lgbt-activists-slam-the-most-important-psychiatrist-of-the-last-half-centur).
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