Transgenderism: By Choice or By Chance?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
When the next battle preserving the privacy of a bathroom
was launched a last week in the Nebraska Unicameral LB
eight nine, the Stand with Women Act, I was struck
by some of the remarks made by those in support,
in particular Rebecca Aleck, a prominent member of the Nebraska
volleyball team. Alec believes we're all miracles of God. He

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doesn't make mistakes like putting a man in a woman's body.
Alex says, the transgendered among us are wrapped in the
arms of the devil, and if we all pray hard enough,
he'll let go of them and the lost will come
to Jesus. So knock this off. As a Christian follower
of Christ, I largely agree with miss Alec. I don't

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think God makes mistakes, but he also gives us the
freedom to decide how to live on this earth by ourselves.
Man is his only creation with that license. Is she right?
Is this lifestyle a choice? I remember, homo sexuality isn't
the same. And the gay community, which fought battles for

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decades to get the acceptance they finally enjoy, is quick
to detail the difference. Gays and lesbians are simply attracted
to the same sex. They aren't in conflict with their
gender or physiology. They don't wish they had different parts,
nor did they try to get them, so please, they
plead leave us out of this. Back to the fundamental question.

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Is transgenderism a choice or a chance? And if it
is a choice, who would willingly choose to be transgendered?
Those who say it's physiological lose me. I don't believe
this issue is between the legs. I think it's between
the ears. Or maybe someone or something influence transgendered folks.

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A sweeping report out of the UK cited peer influence
as a major factor in the rise of gender dysphoria,
the medical term that means sexually confused. Social media conclaves
have produced relationships with others who also question their gender.
For hours they all soak in on online chat rooms,

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which almost universally suggest this isn't normal adolescent discomfort, but
a big sign that you really aren't what you are.
Two years ago, the journal Pediatrics disputed that theory implied
the social contagion idea is simply a crutch politicians use
to deny gender affirming health care. They didn't offer an

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alternative cause for gender dysphor you just says it's not that,
And then why is it that the NIH stats tell
us that females question their sexuality on average two years
before males, Or that thirty nine percent of transgenders are
biological women thirty six percent men. And while three percent

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of young people in New York identify as transgender, only
zero point six percent of kids in Wyoming do. If
it's not social, shouldn't there be an identical percentage of
kids with these questions in Missouri as California? There isn't.
Maybe you are that way, maybe you think you are.

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I'm an educated man, but fail to see the politics
of this or any of the one hundred and twenty
bills introduced thus far in state legislatures across the country
that clarifies transgender issues. It's not about them, It never
has been. The LGBTQ community is howling about a dismantling
of their rights. Well, which rights would those be? To

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live as you choose, that's not under assault, to change
your sex upon reaching legal age. That's protected even in
conservative Nebraska and by the Americans with Disabilities Act. Even
though so far the LGBTQ community bristles at the idea
that they are somehow disabled or unwell. These pieces of
legislation don't restrict opportunities to play on sports teams or

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allow any form of discrimination. These bills will make it
the law that lack the rest of us transgenders be
treated based on what they are, not what they think
they are. Seems like the least political thing elected officials
have ever done.