Opinion : Letter to the Editor: Transgenderism and other thoughts during Lent

Dear Editor:

During the Lenten season when Christians are preparing to remember the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, Catholics are asked to go to confession; to confess their sins and ask for forgiveness and mercy from our God. It is indeed difficult to face your Priest and make this confession. Forgiveness is granted and penance is given. This is always a difficult time for me as I was not raised a Catholic, but a Presbyterian. So grudgingly I go but I always feel better at the end. It is tough to speak of your shortcomings to another human - Priest or not. We are to give compassion and forgiveness to those who would harm us in either words or deeds. I find it impossible to forgive those who would take innocent life - including but not limited to ISIS, Taliban, Communist China, Communist Russia, Drug Cartels and others. I want them condemned to hell! Not a good Christian thought I know, but I am being honest.

So I wrote recently about Transgenderism and how wrong I thought it was. (Wait - wait -don't do anything that cannot be undone. ) My piece was short, but one critic wrote a book. Still not sure what his/her topic was; for I usually see critics who prefer to attack me rather than address the issues I raise.

So as a follow up I found the following article by Paul Sacca, March 19, 2023. Thus: A de-transitioned teen is suing a hospital system over doctors removing her breasts when she was only 13 years old. This is exactly one of the things I was writing about - this surgery cannot be undone.

The girl, Jane, wrote on Twitter, "Mind boggling to me that a doctor signed off on a double mastectomy for me before I had taken a sex ed. course. I barely started the eight grade, I was 13." This suit accuses the doctors of approving the breast removal surgery - without performing an adequate evaluation and treatment of her mental health or co-morbidities. The lawsuit claimed that doctors warned that Jane would have an increased risk of suicide unless she transitioned. The Doctors allegedly gave Jane's parents the binary option of a - live son or - a dead daughter. Good grief am I the only one who sees the evil in this??? Suicide is not limited to transition, but also to others who have been bullied on social media. Shut down the damned cell phones and talk to one another rather than tweet!

This girl and her parents were obviously taken down a path by doctors convinced this was the right course. How can this be? How can any human determine that God (biology) made a mistake assigning - male or female at birth, really conception? This is a travesty and needs good people to stand against this. It is up to parents to monitor any person of any authority who grooms our young to think they are another person than what they are. It takes time to grow to maturity - we must give our children that time.

The last two lines of the Our Father or Lord's Prayer (as you wish) is more meaningful to me now - "Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil". Pray with me that that will happen.

Regards,

John Stiegelmeyer