The Trans Tragedy

    This week there was another mass shooting, a literal mass shooting, Catholic school students at mass in Minneapolis. Fourteen people were injured, two children were killed, but the relatively low number was not due to lack of effort on the shooter's part. Although it is not mentioned in mainstream media, the shooter was transgender. One of seven trans mass shooters across the U.S. between January 2024 and now. In many ways all such tragedies could be considered by products of decades of our nation turning its back on God. If there is no God, or if we each get to create our own god, then there is no objective standard of right and wrong. Even though most Americans still think murder is wrong, if all truth is relative, murderers' viewpoints are as valid as anyone else's. So moral relativity is part of the problem, but what is triggering the transgenders?

    One of the prevailing lies perpetuated by the gender fluid crowd is that if you feel like you don't fit in, if you are uncomfortable in your own skin, the problem is that you are trapped in the wrong body. Even leaving God out of the equation, medically and scientifically, the same flood of hormones that creates the genitals hardwires the body and brain to that sex. As a Christian, the more significant implication of transgender is that, since there are hundreds of biological differences between males and females, not the half dozen that can be addressed medically, that would mean God made hundreds of mistakes on each individual who feels trapped in the wrong body. Why God has suddenly lost quality control in his people manufacturing process at this particular time is a mystery. Either our culture is mistaken, or God is.

    One of the other lies doctors and counselors promote to coerce parents into allowing what is called gender affirming (actually altering) care on their minor children, is that they will commit suicide otherwise. However, studies in England have shown that not only are gender dysphoric teens not likely to kill themselves, they are more likely to commit suicide after transitioning. If left alone, they usually return to their birth gender by age 19. When those who believe the lie and transition realize they are just as miserable, and even more uncomfortable in their own skin, it leads to suicidal despair. When a suicidal person does not fear God or believe they will face judgment for their sins, that the worst thing that can happen to them is death, and they are willing to die, then why not take a few people with you? The trans tragedy traps far more than those who choose to believe it. And like all Satan's lies, it is a death trap.