March 31st: When Public Holidays Mock Christianity

Today's post is an "extra" Saturday post. It's not the typical Bible Love Notes one-minute devotion. It will take you four to five minutes to read, and I hope it will prompt you to pray. It's one of several subjects that God has laid on my heart, and I feel like Jeremiah felt in Jeremiah 20:8-9. See Like a Fire for more on that verse.

I avoid addressing issues on Bible Love Notes that are strictly political. But I'm compelled to speak up for biblical values even when they are interrelated to politics. That's why I frequently address abortion. It's a moral issue, and Scripture strongly warns us to speak up it (Proverbs 24:11-12; Proverbs 31:8-9). 

A holiday that mocks God's creation design

Today let's discuss something both political and biblical: the March 31st Transgender Day of Visibility. 

TDOV has been celebrated since 2009, and in 2024, President Biden issued an official proclamation affirming it. It's no coincidence that March 31st fell on Easter that year. I'm sure Satan was smiling to see God mocked on a day celebrating Christ's resurrection. 

The U.S. proclamation suggested that anyone who fails to affirm trans lifestyles is guilty of abuse against trans people. 

The claim that disapproval of transgender lifestyles causes suicides and depression is unsubstantiated. Please see Don't Fall for Suicide Propaganda to read more about this tactic.

Protecting those without adult reasoning skills

Legally, adults have complete freedom to choose surgeries and drugs that alter their gender. Biblically, we know that this is harmful to their hearts and souls, and we should be unashamed to share God's loving commands.

But the White House Fact Sheet for Transgender Day in 2023 wasn't about adults. It focused on children. They were demanding that we trust a child's undeveloped reasoning skills, giving them the right to choose their gender when they're too young to decide their bedtime. 

Instead of praising people who propose and institute laws that protect minor children from life-altering drugs and surgeries, the presidential statement called any limitation "callous government overreach that threatens families." 

Evidence does not support government claims

In order to advance their agenda, pro-trans advocates ignore the increasing evidence that many children will change their minds about transgender choices as they mature (source). In addition, the drugs given to these children have proven to cause bone loss, leaving some of them with lifelong skeletal problems in addition to permanently preventing normal sexual function (source). And surgeries performed on these children permanently remove healthy body parts.

Other countries have promoted these medical treatments long before the U.S., and here are a few of their findings:

"Finland, citing concerns about side effects, in 2020 cut back puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to minors. Sweden followed suit in 2022 and Norway this year [2023]. Britain’s National Health Service shuttered the country’s largest youth gender clinic after 35 clinicians resigned over three years, complaining they were pressured to overdiagnose gay, mentally ill, and autistic teens and prescribe medications that made their conditions worse." (source)

"The conclusions of the systematic reviews of evidence for adolescents are consistent with long-term adult studies, which failed to show credible improvements in mental health and suggested a pattern of treatment-associated harms." (source)

It's helpful to have this evidence from completely secular studies because it reveals that the trans agenda is purposely ignoring relevant facts.

 

But, as Christians, we don't need to depend on studies. We base our beliefs on God's Word, and we fully trust that our Creator knows more than we know about gender. If you would like to read the biblical view about gender, please read A Letter Defending Male and Female and What Does Scripture Say about Gender (short article) and What the Bible Teaches about Gender (longer article).

2024 highlighted the mockery of this holiday

Transgender Day doesn't protect children. It promotes and celebrates child abuse and mocks God's loving design.

In 2024, President Biden issued a 94-word Easter message and a 639-word Proclamation on Transgender Day. His transgender proclamation included remarks such as this:

"Extremists are proposing hundreds of hateful laws that target and terrify transgender kids and their families — silencing teachers; banning books; and even threatening parents, doctors, and nurses with prison for helping parents get care for their children." 

Please notice that propaganda creates fear and misrepresents opposing views with words like extremists, hateful, terrify, silencing, and threatening.

If you want to translate this from the language of propaganda into the language of truth: The current administration opposes laws that protect immature children and teenagers from making life-altering decisions before they have adult reasoning skills.

This mockery breaks my heart, and if you know Christ, it should break yours as well. Please take some time today to pray about this mockery that is mutilating and misleading so many children around the world.

Galatians 6:7: "Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows."

And consider this prayer of the early disciples when Christianity was mocked in their time:

Acts 4:25-26, 29: "You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of your servant, our father David: 'Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth rise up and the rulers band together against the Lord and against his anointed one.'…Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness."

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