Commentary
The General Convention of the Episcopal Church just voted to embrace radical transgender ideology. Specifically, the House of Deputies passed—and the House of Bishops concurred in—a resolution stating:
“Resolved, that the 80th General Convention calls for the Episcopal Church to advocate for access to gender affirming care in all forms (social, medical, or any other) and at all ages as part of our Baptismal call to ‘respect the dignity of every human being’.”
“Gender-affirming care” (GAC), as it’s known, requires psychologists, parents, and teachers to unquestioningly validate the child’s feelings about their “true sex,” first through social means, but often proceeding to “medical” interventions such as puberty blocking, cross hormone injections, mastectomies for teenage girls who identify as boys, and even worse, mutilating “bottom” surgeries. These interventions can deleteriously impact the child’s physical health. Puberty blocking can stunt bone growth, and hormone injections can cause blood clots and lead to physical changes that can’t be reversed if the patient ceases to identify as the opposite sex. Mastectomies destroy a girl’s breasts, while bottom surgeries cause sterilization, and often, lifelong difficulty (or impossibility) in attaining orgasm….