This story reminds me of a line from one of my favorite movies, The Robe. When, the aged Emperor Tiberius is laconically lamenting about the eventual fall of the Empire with these words: “...and then madness.” That's how it will happen; with madness. And this is insane: a 6-year old boy who thinks he is a girl (his parents, teachers, and classmates all refer to him as she;) the media has labeled the boy trans-gendered; the school, in which the boy attends, wants him to use the boy's restroom; so the parents are suing. ...and then madness.
Note:
Guidelines from the Endocrine Society endorse transgender hormone treatment but say it should not be given before puberty begins. At that point, the guidelines recommend puberty-blocking drugs until age 16, then lifelong sex-changing hormones with monitoring for potential health risks. Mental health professionals should be involved in the process, the guidelines say. The group's members are doctors who treat hormonal conditions.
A Massachusetts doctor's report details a fourfold increase in patients at his Boston hospital. His Gender Management Service clinic, which opened in 2007, averages about 19 patients each year, compared with about four per year treated for gender issues at the hospital in the late 1990s. The report details 97 girls and boys treated between 1998 and 2010; the youngest was 4 years old. Kids that young and their families get psychological counseling and are monitored until the first signs of puberty emerge, usually around age 11 or 12. Then children are given puberty-blocking drugs, in monthly $1,000 injections or implants imbedded in the arm. In another Pediatrics report, a Texas doctor says he's also provided sex-changing treatment to an increasing number of children; so has a clinic at Children's Hospital Los Angeles where the 8-year-old is a patient.
Another note:
Around the world, clinics that specialize in gender-identity disorder in children report an explosion in referrals over the past few years. Dr. Kenneth Zucker, who runs the most comprehensive gender-identity clinic for youth in Toronto, has seen his waiting list quadruple in the past four years, to about 80 kids—an increase he attributes to media coverage and the proliferation of new sites on the Internet. Dr. Peggy Cohen-Kettenis, who runs the main clinic in the Netherlands, has seen the average age of her patients plummet since 2002. “We used to get calls mostly from parents who were concerned about their children being gay,” says Catherine Tuerk, who since 1998 has run a support network for parents of children with gender-variant behavior, out of Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. “Now about 90 percent of our calls are from parents with some concern that their child may be transgender.”
Unfortunately, for these children, there seems to be a growing trend that dispels the reality of mental illness. As someone who has intermittently been plagued by bouts of depression and anxiety, since my years of pain and degradation, I can testify to the profound suffering that often accompanies the manifestation of psychological afflictions. But, along with this, is the very genuine existence of demonic entities which can in fact possess unsuspecting children. The case in which the book The Exorcist was based, involved a then 13-year old boy. “And behold a woman of Canaan who came out of those coasts, crying out, said to him: Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David: my daughter is grieviously troubled by the devil.” (Matt 15:22.) “A man in the crowd answered, “Teacher, I brought you my son, who is possessed by a spirit that has robbed him of speech.” (Mark 9:17)
It's interesting in each of these instances, the loving parents of the possessed children came forward to seek help from the Lord. Now, confused and brain-washed adults serve up their kids as a feast for the demons.