it seems the baptist press is “educating” the world in “medicine”. i had no idea they were “the” authority when it comes to “medical treatments”. to wit:

For teenagers who believe they are transgender, Spack (which, by the way, rhymes with quack) will offer hormone therapy. These treatments are considered drastic and will alter the way a teen will grow and develop. Long–term hormone therapy cannot be reversed.

obviously, any doctor whose name rhymes with any word that has any negative connotations is unqualified. i wonder how that works with “columnists” who write for “news with a christian perspective” websites. after all, “boggs” rhymes with “hogs”. or something.

but wait, there’s more:

I find it criminal that impressionable young children and teens are led to believe they are biological accidents just because they exhibit interests that are deemed more appropriate for the opposite gender. Dr. Sills told FoxNews.com that the three year-old she deemed as transgender insisted she was a boy and mimicked masculine behavior.

I wonder if Sills has ever encountered a three year-old that insisted he or she were an animal or super hero? Some young children become jealous of a parent and insist they are married to their moms or dads. I wonder how Dr. Sills would handle such cases.

right, because “gender confusion” is the same thing as “species confusion” or belief that one is a superhero. after all, humans procreate male, female, and intersex offspring, just like they produce cat, dog, and spiderman offspring.

or something.

Now it seems some progressives think little Sally playing with a fire engine indicates that she really wants to one day be Frank the fireman.

i wasn’t aware that the only criteria used for a diagnosis of transgender, and the subsequent “sex-change” of said person was that they play with toys that children of the “opposite sex” typically play with. i wonder what happens if one plays with all kinds of toys.

it doesn’t end there, however. the “author” of this piece provides us with a “scientific & medical” “solution”:

I am not trying to make light of the fact there are people who are psychologically confused when it comes to their gender — and some of them are children. However, these people and kids are in need of prayer and counseling, not hormone therapy and a surgeon.

“prayer and counseling”, the cure all for every social, medical, and spiritual ill. cause, you know, it seems to work so well within their own ranks. not. how many men of the cloth are convicted of sexual assault each year?

i have nothing against religious belief. in fact, i’ve been known to say a prayer or two now and again. and i’ve been known to hold a belief or two in a mystical invisible being living in the sky. but i don’t use that ever shifting belief as justification to speak with any authority about medical or scientific issues.

it wasn’t my 40 years of daily prayer that corrected the incongruity between my physical and mental existence, but rather the intervention of the qualified medical practitioners i hired to treat me.

what a concept.