CHILD ABUSE – by Colt Bottomley

Now, I’m not much of a gambling man but I’d wager to say that you read the title “child abuse” and quickly stumbled through this sentence to find out whose child was abused and by whom. The answer? Society’s children. Now before you realize this is not a local or international case and move on to the comical “meme of the month”, it doesn’t make this any less severe or any less important.

Have you ever heard the nomenclature “theybies”? Well if you haven’t, I’m sorry to be the first to inform you of this inevitable disappointment in today’s culture. According to Macmillan Dictionary, “theybies” is defined as “a baby who has been brought up in a gender-neutral way and not outwardly identified by its parents as either a boy or girl.” I know, I told you that the feeling of disappoint was inevitable.

To Christians, God tells us that there is man, and there is woman. That fact is determined at time of conception. To non-believers, science tells us there is man, and there is woman, which is also determined at the time of conception. Kind of black-and-white, don’t you think? (To all the politically correct persons out there, I should correct myself and say Caucasian and African-American). But somehow the American left, in the last several of years, have managed to contort even the simplest facts of life. 

The undeniably talented recording artist, Pink, has decided to raise her daughter as a theyby. Now, notice I said daughter; I’m pretty sure the decision has already been made, but not according to Pink. “We are a very label-less household” the pop singer stated in an interview with The People.

Pink proudly stated that Willow (Pink’s Daughter) once told her that she was going to grow up and marry a woman from Africa. To which Pink nonchalantly replied “Great, can you teach me how to make African food?” 

Gender Dysphoria is known among mental health professionals as “the distress a person experiences as a result of the sex and gender they were assigned at birth” and is commonly referred to as a mental illness. Gender Dysphoria is a result of distress or anxiety about one’s body and their gender specific functions. When an individual is born male or female, and society and/or psychologically abusive parents tell them they can be any gender they want, that creates a substantial amount of stress and uncertainty on that individual. Thus, increasing the possibility of a mental illness known as Gender Dysphoria.

Now that you have a small taste for this stomach-churning illness plaguing our society, I want to direct your attention to the facts and statistics.

• LGBTQ community is estimated at 11 million (4.5% of the U.S. population) in 2017 (gallup.com 2017)
• LGBTQ youth is estimated at 5 million (7% of American youth) in 2017 (gallup.com 2017)
• 60% of LGBTQ youth are reported being so sad or hopeless, they stopped doing some of their usual activities (Kann 2016)
• LGBTQ youth are 4 times more likely to experience depression than their peers. (Reisner 2015)
• LGBTQ youth are five times more likely to attempt suicide than their peers. (thetrevorproject.org 2016)
• 1 in 3 (33%) LGBTQ adults experienced mental illness in 2015, compared to only 1 in 5 (20%) heterosexual adults. (NSDUH 2015)
• 40% of LGBTQ adults have attempted suicide during their lifetime, compared to less than 5% of the U.S. population (James 2016)
• 95% of LGBTQ youth report trouble sleeping at night. (hrc.org 2018)
• Almost 95% of LGBTQ attempted suicides claimed to have done before they turned 25 years old (nami.org)
• 20-30% of the LGBTQ community suffers from substance abuse compared to 9% of the U.S. population (nami.org)
• 25% of the LGBTQ community suffers from alcohol abuse compared to 5-10% of the U.S. population (nami.org)

I give these statistics to reiterate the severity and harmfulness of the LGBTQ movement. There are legitimate claims that these issues are caused by Gender Dysphoria and there are also legitimate claims that these issues are because of hazing and/or discriminating but either way, it is not good for the individual. It is not good for the human psyche. It is not good for the mental health. It is not good for the stability of the community. It is not good for the American culture. It is not good for the church. It is not good for the world.

My heart breaks for these children and for the confusion their parents put them through. Those parents that decided to raise their babies as “theybies” and let them choose their own gender, must be wildly ignorant to the statics on the LGBTQ community. Either they are ignorant, or they are willingly committing child abuse. By raising your child as gender neutral, there’s a very large chance you’re setting your child up for depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts. Whether that is a result of discrimination, or a result of Gender Dysphoria, the results are the same. Why would any rational parent want to put their child through that?

A libertarian might inquire, “it’s their child and their decision on how they raise that child, why don’t you just leave them alone?” Which I would reply with an analogy. If you’re walking on a bridge and you see a child on the ledge contemplating to jump, would you try to reach out and help the child or would you simply shrug and say, “not my problem, it’s their life, they can do what they want”? Of course not! It’s in every sane person’s nature to want to pull that child to safety.

Same rule applies to these theybies. Metaphorically, I’m being forced to watch these children stand on the ledge of the bridge and they’re being pushed closer to the edge by their parents at incredibly young ages and they fall into depression and it’s so heart-breaking and tragic to see. 

I was recently binge-watching (which I’m often found guilty of) the Andy Griffith show. There was a nugget of wisdom, so I quickly grabbed a pen and scribbled the line down hastily as Mr. Griffith read aloud. The episode consisted of Opie (Griffith’s son) being influenced poorly by another adult. When Andy confronted the man, the man replied “who’s to say that the boy would be happier your way or mine? Why not let him decide?”

To which Andy replied, “I’m afraid it don’t work that way. You can’t let a young’n decide for himself. He’ll grab at the first flashy thing with shiny ribbons on it. Then, when he finds out there’s a hook in it, it’s too late. Wrong ideas come packaged with so much glitter it’s hard to convince him that other things might be better in the long run. All a parent can do is say ‘wait, trust me’ and try to keep temptation away.”

I’ll raise a glass to Andy Griffith’s words of wisdom. American society would greatly benefit if we would step back and reevaluate the push for theybies and their psychological child abuse.

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