OPINION:
Last week’s Supreme Court case reviewing a Tennessee law that bans transgender treatment for minors included the testimony of a de-transitioning teen who has had physical and mental health problems since her trans surgeries and treatments (“Transgender delusion needs to end,” web, Dec. 6).
She told the court about realizing she’d made a mistake — one that will affect her for the rest of her life.
During the court’s review of the case, it was also pointed out that three countries have already enforced limits on trans interventions due to the reported irreversible consequences.
But from the liberal, pro-choice camp came Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who helpfully explained: “Every medical treatment has a risk, even taking aspirin. There is always going to be a percentage of the population under any medical treatment that’s going to suffer harm.” (But not the baby in an abortion?)
It is no wonder the proverbial slope has become so slippery. Everything now is a choice, from selecting the term gay in order to avoid the discomfiting label of homosexual to concocting the fantasy that there are multiple genders. That a Supreme Court justice would compare major, life-altering surgery to taking an aspirin is absurd.
Choice is at the heart of every false perception used to alter observable fact. It is also at the heart of rejecting those fabricated perceptions and accepting the truth that God created human beings and human nature. Anyone — including Supreme Court justices — can be deceived if they choose to be.
LARRY VOLKENING
Houston
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