A wound is a rupture of a person's physical and/or spiritual integrity, and a wound that remains open cannot heal. The gender ideologue surgeon's experimental cut that creates a facsimile organ opposite to a person's sex is, in reality, the deliberate opening and maintenance of a wound. This reflects the broader trajectory of gender ideology, whether expressed through name changes, invented pronouns, or a chemically and surgically altered appearance.As we will see in this book, interpreting studies on transgenderism requires realism: the apparent rise in youth identifying as transgender is best understood not as a distinct category of human beings, but as the deliberate consequence of many influences. The electronic media connects ideological advocates with vulnerable young people. In addition, there is an explicitly pornographic sex education organized around a false "cis/trans" binary rather than the natural, biological complementarity of being male or female. Furthermore, there are books promoting multi-sex identities. And there is the use of anti-discrimination laws to advance gender ideology. This culture-wide confluence of gender ideologues' ideas contributes to an environment in which parents doubt their God-given protective parental instincts and children are told they can be anything except who they are.Families are even confronted with the false dilemma: "Do you want a dead son or a live daughter?" This false dilemma is emotional blackmail because drugs and surgeries cannot change a person's sex. Sex is not a phase, a choice, or a mere bodily feature, but an expression of the whole person innately connected to their natural reproductive design, a beautiful reality that can be obscured by trauma and yet naturally reasserts itself as the ground of identity. The essential question of life is not what we reject or remake, but what kind of gift we are called to be for others. We are no longer dealing with medicine but with ideological fallout that fails to grasp the psychological and physical wounds opened in young people and their families. What is needed is clear evidence, sound medicine that does no harm and the spiritual help we seek or receive from a merciful God.This book, with an authoritative foreword by Dr. Michelle Cretella, offers a concise account of where this debate stands today.
