Welcome to the slippery slope, please mind your step

I can’t take it anymore.  After a short stint of blogging I had hung up the old keyboard and decided to refrain from social commentary.  However, this whole transgender bathroom fiasco is about to make my head explode. I have seen too many news stories, blog posts and videos of people telling me that I’m a bigot because and narrow-minded because I don’t support transgender people’s choice to urinate in whichever restroom they choose.  I have also seen a number of posts and videos of people claiming they will shoot transgender people on site. What I have not seen is a lot logical argument from either side.  So let me, with my limited public school education, give you my perspective on this situation and why all the emotion in this debate needs to be replaced is facts and logic.

To what end?

I read one blogpost that said that Christian people just need to open their minds with regard to transgenderness (is that a word?  Pansexual is a word so let’s make transgenderness a word too).  How far do you want us to open our minds?  We’ve been told by some scientists and Lady Gaga that homosexuals are born that way. Even if you were born gay, you still choose how to dress yourself.  So if living as the opposite gender is a choice how far do we need go to accommodate people’s choices?  How far do you want us to open our minds?  And if you demand that we open our minds to accommodate people’s choices then I demand that you contemplate a world where everyone’s choices need to be accommodated.  

Here’s a link to a video (here’s written story as well) about 52-year Paul Wolscht who lives his life as an six-year old girl.  If you peel back his rhetoric for a second and you will see that this where we are heading once we accommodate people’s choices in order for them to be happy. The narrator states that Paul is not a cross-dresser, but discovered he was was transgender—which is a person whose gender is different than the sex they were assigned at birth.  Wait, what?  Different than what was assigned at birth? Is there proof, for this?  I’m sorry, but you will have to prove to us that this is not just a choice?  Is there a test?  Is there a brain scan that peers into someone’s brain and shows that they are actually a woman and not a man?  Does their DNA show double X chromosomes instead of an XY?  If there is no proof, then it is a choice and if it is a choice then how far do we have to go to support this choice?  

So again I ask you where is the end? If I can be a woman, can I be black?  Can I be Asian or Hispanic?  Can I be a monkey or a dog?  Where does it end? 

You can’t have it both ways

In the video about Paul he said that he would have guys come over to his house wanting to try on his clothes.  At one point he described how surreal it was for there to be a 300-pound man with a goatee asking if he could kiss him while wearing one of his dresses.  But wait I thought you were a six-year old girl named Stefoknee.  Isn’t that man kissing you committing child rape?

Let’s just Bruce the biker gets picked up the cops and is questioned about his whereabouts. 

Cop: Where were you last night?

Bruce: I was with Stefoknee at her house.

Cop: Did you have sex with Stefoknee?

Bruce: Yes

Cop: How old is she?

Bruce: She’s 6, no wait, she’s 52, no wait, she’s, I mean he’s 52.  

Paul can’t have it both ways.  Either he is a six-year girl or he’s a 52-year-old man.  He can’t demand that we treat him how he feels only when it is convenient for him, that’s not how life works.  Otherwise I would be a woman when it came time for my annual fitness test or if I wanted to apply for a small business loan or when I wanted to compete in sports.  

Safety is paramount

Many of the opponents of the transgender bathroom policy cite safety as their biggest concern.  They don’t want their daughters and wives in a public restroom with some dude dressed in women’s clothes.  Proponents of this policy argue that this concern is not valid because not all transgender people are pedophiles and rapists.  Okay fine, let’s concede that point.  In fact, let’s go one step further let’s say that all transgender people in America are fine citizens who have no ill intent.  Safety is still a concern, and here’s why.  

I would venture to guess that 99% of high school boys have at some time been curious to know what it is like to go into the girl’s locker room at school.  I was a high school boy and I wondered.  I’m not a pervert, but I sure as heck had hormones and I liked girls in high school.  But here’s the thing, I didn’t go into the girl’s locker room because I knew it was wrong and I had enough respect the girls in my high school to give them their privacy.

Now imagine a world where a boy can choose to go into the girl’s locker room simply because he feels like being a girl that day.  How about the locker room at your gym or college?  Forget all the well-meaning transgenders who are trying to find happiness, but now you have opened the door to scrupulous people who don’t mind exploiting a situation for their benefit and other people’s harm.  

This is why people are upset, it’s not because of hate or bigotry, it’s because they realize that there are bad people in this world who want to do bad things.  It’s true that a little blue sign may not stop someone from committing a crime, but when we relax social norms it gives the predators a place to operate.  And trust me there are predators in this world.

The numbers don’t add up

According to this New York Times Article there is an estimated 700,000 transgender people in America or .3% of the U.S. population.  The article also says that since 1936 only 135,000 people have officially changed their name and sex with the Social Security Administration. So here’s my take.  A person’s happiness should be subservient to the greater good.  If what makes a person happy puts other people at risk shouldn’t that person abstain from the behavior so as to not put others in danger? 

Again, if you are asking me to not be so narrow-minded then I implore you to think about the ramifications of accommodating everyone’s choices in order to make them happy.  Do we really as a society want to go to that rabbit hole?  What happens when people ask to the lower the age of consent from 18 to 16 or to 14?  What if a man 40-year old man lives as a 12-year old girl and wants to wants to have sex with a 12-year old boy?  At what point do we devolve into looking at people as either the penetrator or the penetrated with no question of age or gender?  That is where we are heading if we don’t change course. 

The demise of our society will not be guns or the environment; the demise of the American society will be when we exchange moral absolutes for moral relatives.  

Leftovers, enjoy

L. Kyle

Down the rabbit hole we go...

…and much like the world that Alice encounter, the world we live is starting to make very little sense.  Take this story which broke in February about a California High School senior who is named Pat (fitting name) who claims he is a girl trapped in a boy’s body.  In a normal world Pat’s claim would not be that big of deal, but in California his claim lands him a spot on his High School’s girls’ softball team. 

Under California’s newly enacted law Assembly Bill 1266 students will have access to facilities, sports teams and programs that are consistent with their gender identity, not necessarily their biological composition. 

So that’s it then; all a person has to do to have access to opposite gender facilities and teams is claim they are a girl or a boy.  Do you believe now that we are in a different world?  Are we not, in fact in a Bizzaro world here?  And the absolutely maddening part is that people in the media don’t even bat an eye.  In fact in few news stories I have read refer to Pat as ‘she’!!!

Take a more recent story of a family who was given an award because their daughter wanted to be a boy and the parents not only complied with their daughter’s instance, but e-mailed their friends to tell them the good news.  Insanity!  First, that the parents would cave into their child’s demand and second because there is an award for such things (of course the award is in honor of Harvey Milk so what do you expect?).

 

The parents claim that a large percentage of children with ‘gender identity’ issues end up committing suicide.  Which if you ask L. Kyle, it sounds like LGBT community bullied the parents into this.  The LGBT community wants us all to think that ‘transgender’ is a real thing rather than just an excuse for people to behave in whatever manner makes them feel good.

The champions of the gender identity issues have not stopped to think about the ramifications of these decisions.  All they see is perceived equality for sexually deviant behavior.  When I was growing up the big push was not to have sex before you were married, but it was always implied that boys would be married to girls.  Now days it’s not a question of having sex before you are married (that’s a given), but what gender you want to have sex with and even more, what gender do you want to be! 

The maddening part of all this is that people in our nation are just nodding their heads and going along with this garbage.  What was the school board discussion about Pat’s request like?  Did anyone stand up and say “No amount of make-up or frilly clothes will change this boy’s DNA?”  And that’s really the point; a person can lop off parts of their bodies and take hormone pills, but it will not change the fact that women have two X chromosomes and men have one X and one Y.

But we’ve gone nutty with perceived gender identity issues. TIME magazine this month has transgender issues as their front page cover.  People are getting awards for dressing their girl up as a boy.  And the speed at which these issues are being brought to the forefront of society is astonishing.  It’s almost as if there is an agenda beneath all of these actions. 

Oh wait, there is an agenda.  And this agenda is being built on the backs of young people like Ryland and Pat who are confused about life.  And this agenda is more sinister than it appears.  Simply put, this agenda is pure evil.  This agenda will stop at nothing short of stripping every last piece of morality from American culture. 

Oh, L. Kyle, you’re such a right wing loon!

That may be, but look where we have come from.  It wasn’t too long ago that sex was regarded as something only for marriage between a man and a woman.  I’m not naïve, sex outside of marriage has been around in America forever, but at the very least it wasn’t celebrated and at best it was discouraged.  Now days even the staunchest conservatives and many Christians see pre-marital sex as okay.  In fact in a recent poll 61% of Christians say that they would have sex before marriage.

Okay, so change the views about sex outside marriage, check. 

Now that the agenda had won that battle it moved on to homosexuality.  That one has been a little tougher, but through clever use of language and with a little help from science, homosexuality has become more widely accepted.  After all, if science can say that a person’s sexual orientation is part of their DNA then we can equate sexual preference to race, gender and eye color.

Homosexuality widely accepted, check.

The agenda hasn’t stopped there; after all homosexuals can blend into society and the agenda can’t have that.  Ah!  Transgender, that’s the next thing to have accepted.  Now, not only should we accept homosexual activity as normal we need to also accept men dressing and acting as women and women dressing and acting like men.  And we can see that the agenda is gaining ground.  So much so that boys like Pat are being called ‘her and she’ all because they say so.  Watch the first 30 seconds of this clip and tell me that this is not the same thing.  Lunacy!

So what is the next stop for the agenda?  Think about what’s left people!  Once we deviate from the standard of sexual relationships, which is one man, one woman in the bounds of marriage, everything will become acceptable.  How much further will the Godly people allow this to go before we rise up and challenge this agenda?

Sex with animals?  Will that be enough?  What happens when the agenda comes for our kids?  And it will.  Ney, it already has.  The agenda is already teaching our children in elementary school about sex and sexuality.  When our teachers should be teaching reading, writing and arithmetic, they are teaching our kids about sexuality. 

This agenda is winning and it is gaining ground and quickly.  It has already consumed pop culture, it’s taking over our education institutions and worst of all it’s sweeping through our churches. 

Edmund Burke said that all that has to happen for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.  So, good men and women are we going to do nothing and watch our children and this nation be consumed by an evil agenda?  Or are we going to stand up and fight.  That doesn’t mean holding signs that say, “God hates fags”, but it means getting our knees and praying for God’s mighty hand to work in this great nation.  It means evangelizing the lost and disciplining those who are Christians already.  It means setting aside our watered-down Christianity, which is more concerned with our own prosperity, and truly living for Christ, which means accomplishing the Great Commission.

Go therefore and make disciples (Matt 28:19).

Left overs enjoy,

L. Kyle