While listening to the Rush Limbaugh show this past Monday, I heard guest host Todd Herman interview an Australian pediatrician and professor on the issue of gender dysphoria and children. Near the end of the enlightening interview, in which the good doctor detailed the "serious and irreversible damage" done to gender-dysphoric children given radical surgeries and hormones demanded by the perverse LGBT agenda, Mr. Herman asked the important question: "Why?"

I don't recall the exact wording of Mr. Herman's question, and RushLimbaugh.com does not provide a transcript for guest-hosted shows, but it was something along the lines of this: why have so many decided that the solution for children — children! — suffering from gender delusions is disfiguring surgeries and dangerous hormone treatments? The doctor didn't have a good answer ready, but I think I know who's really behind this evil and what the endgame is here.

First of all, let it be noted the lightning speed in which we've descended down this wicked slope. With nothing in science or morality to back the notion that "gender is a spectrum" or that one can actually "transition" from one sex to another, in less than a decade we've gone from the foolish and evil notion that marriage is whatever we define it to be to sex (gender) is whatever we define it to be. As is the case with same-sex "marriage," children are again victims.

Not only children, but parents of vulnerable and deceived children are victims as well. In early 2019, in Public Discourse, the journal of the Witherspoon Institute, five mothers anonymously published their concerns over their supposed "transgender" children. The first mother wrote:

I was shocked when my thirteen-year-old daughter told me she was really my transgender son[.] ... Where did she get the idea she was transgender? From a school presentation — at a school where over 5 percent of the student body called themselves trans or nonbinary, and where several students were already on hormones, and one had a mastectomy at the age of sixteen[.] ... I took her to a gender clinician seeking expert guidance. Instead, he accepted her new identity and told me I must refer to my daughter with masculine pronouns, call her by a masculine name, and buy her a binder to flatten her breasts. He recommended no therapy, and there was no consideration of the social factors that obviously affected her thinking. I was directed to put her on puberty blocking drugs[.] ... I have nowhere to go for proper help. Therapists are actively trained and socially pressured not to question these increasingly common identities. In Washington, DC, and many states with so-called conversion therapy bans, questioning a child's belief that she is of the opposite sex is against the law. ... Parents like me must remain anonymous to maintain our children's privacy, and because we face legal repercussions if our names are revealed. Parents who do not support their child's gender identity risk being reported to Child Protective Services and losing custody of their children. In New Jersey, the Department of Education officially encourages schools to report such parents.

The other mothers detail similar horrors. They talk of children running away from home because their parents refused to use the "proper pronouns." One mother details how the state of Oregon allowed her daughter:

... at the age of seventeen, without my knowledge or consent — to change her name and legal gender in court, and to undergo a double mastectomy and a radical hysterectomy. My once beautiful daughter is now nineteen years old, homeless, bearded, in extreme poverty, sterilized, not receiving mental health services, extremely mentally ill, and planning a radial forearm phalloplasty (a surgical procedure that removes part of her arm to construct a fake penis).

Make no mistake: as is the case with mass shooters, as deacon Jack Wilson recently reminded us, what we are dealing with here is not mere mental illness. This is evil — pure and simple evil right out of the pit of hell. We will not win this fight unless it is dealt with as such.

As was the case with same-sex "marriage," this is another opportunity for those who want to rule their own world to thumb their noses at the laws of the Lawgiver. The legalization of same-sex "marriage" was never really only about giving homosexuals the opportunity to "marry." It was also always about sticking it to Christians and Christianity. In other words, as was the case with same-sex "marriage," this is a war against the truth — especially when it comes to matters in the sexual realm.

As I've often noted, marriage is the oldest institution in the history of humanity — older than God's covenant with the nation of Israel, older than the Law, older than the church. Marriage is one of the earliest truths revealed by God. If anything is true, marriage as the union of one man and one woman is true. No doubt, having the U.S. Supreme Court — along with certain lawmakers — pervert such a long-held truth emboldened those who hate the truth.

Thus, we shouldn't be surprised that the next step for the wicked LGBT agenda is full social and legal embrace of "transgenderism." After all, if a culture can be made to pervert something as foundational and long held as marriage, why not target elementary biology? After all, in Scripture, one of the few things that precedes marriage is the fact that "God made them male and female."

Thus, to stand against the idea that male and female are immutable, irreversible facts is to strike another blow against the idea that there's such a thing as absolute truth to which we are all beholden. Note how far the radical left has already gotten with its perverse "transgender" agenda. Some of America's largest medical associations, including the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics, have been duped into supporting the evil "transgender" agenda. Likewise, state and local lawmakers along with many school districts across the U.S. have decided that gender is "fluid" and anyone — including the parents of children — who says anything to the contrary must be brought in line.

Much of Hollywood is fully on board with this wickedness. Even dictionaries (that's right: more than one!) have bought into the lies of the "transgender" agenda. If not for the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States, the U.S. military (led by then-president Barack Obama) would've continued its foolish embrace of "transgender" soldiers.

This "transgender" wickedness is another reason why Donald Trump was elected and why he continues to get support from those who love the truth. The sad, sorry fact is that the Democrat Party is fully on board with this evil. Virtually everywhere the "transgender" agenda has taken hold, Democrats rule. The onslaught will continue unless truth-loving Americans stop it. Otherwise, another moral domino will fall, and the left will move onto its next cause and target.

Trevor Grant Thomas: At the Intersection of Politics, Science, Faith, and Reason.

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Trevor is the author of the The Miracle and Magnificence of America.

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