Casey Rollins 🔵 @realcaseyrollins@qoto.org

@jump_spider @freemo I didn't say anything about getting addicted. (For instance, plenty of people smoke cigars and are not addicted.) Your statement itself is a false equivalency, that smoking = addiction.

@jump_spider What's the difference between a sexual orientation and a gender identity?

@freemo @jump_spider Well does the Bible say self-harm is a sin?

@freemo @jump_spider It supports it because it says it's ridiculous to think you know better than God how you should be. Yes, God wants us to work through struggles and personal issues, but tbh, transitioning does the opposite; it seeks to forgo overcoming the personal issues instead of chopping up your privates and pretending to be a different sex.

@freemo @jump_spider Why don't we let them smoke then?

@jump_spider I'm not saying they will experience what it's like to be cisgender (although the study says otherwise). Remember, cisgender is just a sexual orientation. I'm just saying to let them know what it's like to be in a mature body.

@jump_spider @freemo Predestination theology, I like it! 👍🏾

You're absolutely right, but it's still sin. It was God's will that Judas would betray Jesus, but none of us would say that's a good thing to do.

@freemo @jump_spider Also it's not "God terms", we typically refer to it as "Christianese"

@freemo @jump_spider Isaiah 45:9

@jump_spider 😆

@jump_spider You certainly have a right to do so, but you will not stop me from talking about Him.

@jump_spider The difference is that the 18 y/o doesn't have a choice, he will be an adult. Meanwhile anybody can chop up their privates and call themselves a different sex.

And I'm not saying they should have to prove any sort of experience, but to wait until a time when that experience could be expected. Otherwise I would advocate making them wait beyond the end of puberty.

What I find interesting us your commitment to seld-actualization; what is that?

@jump_spider https://www.kqed.org/futureofyou/441784/the-controversial-research-on-desistance-in-transgender-youth

@jump_spider P.S. puberty actually does not affirm it, 75% to 90% of children who say they want to transition decide to stick with their birth sex after they finish puberty.

@jump_spider * like it or not

@jump_spider First of all, again, hormone blockers before or during puberty permanently and radically affect the growth of bone plates. It's no small thing to mess around with those. Parents are supposed to protect their children from physical harm.

Secondly, no, a child does not completely understand what it like to be an adult male or adult female. So, it is most fair to allow them to grow up into full maturity so they can know what it's like, and then decide if they don't like it or not.

@jump_spider It isn't the losing of a bodily function that makes it sinful, but rather trying to fundamentally physically change what you are because you're not satisfied with how God made you.

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