A lesbian couple in California (US) are giving their 11-year-old son Hormone Blocking Therapy so that he can ultimately choose if he wants to change his gender. What moral and ethical concerns do you have about this controversial therapy?
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pagclk on October 18, 2011 at 12:42 pm
I think this is a perversion of the will of God. If he meant us to choose our gender He would have provided a means to do so.
Although I think their lifestylel is outside the will of God, as an American, I will defend their right to choose that lifestyle. However, I don’t defend their right to pervert the will of God in the life of their son.
alli on October 18, 2011 at 7:15 pm
its madness and unfair to the boy b/c he will be confused growing up
jeGeddes on October 19, 2011 at 1:03 am
It’s worse then the couple raising a ‘genderless child’.
sun15 on October 19, 2011 at 4:06 am
This should be termed illegal. I don’t think parents should have the right to do something like that to their kid. No not at all.
What are the authorities doing, if this is really being done its equal to physically abusing a child..
bro446286 on October 19, 2011 at 12:46 pm
the more high tech the world gets the more high tech the sin gets….This is a sad sad situation…my heart goes out in prayer for God’s divine providence for this child.
thinkting on October 20, 2011 at 2:55 am
i think americans should be careful about what “rights” they defend. certainly not every right ought to be protected, nor is every “right to choose” defensible. we ought to examine exactly what choice the right protects and whether it is morally derisable.
tomboy6 on October 20, 2011 at 5:12 am
I think this is a continuance of living in the act of unnatural sex. they are trying to justifiy their sin. i do not think this is anything to do with lifestyle.
poh fang chia on October 20, 2011 at 8:18 am
Moral and ethics are founded upon God’s laws and standards. Romans 1: 18-28 makes it clear that when man choose not to acknowledge God as God in our life, our minds become dark and confused.
This news reminds me how twisted my heart and mind can be. And my need for the constant grace of God to set me right.
zero_g on October 21, 2011 at 7:15 am
They are definitely crossing a line here. It is really no different than giving the child any kind of medicine or surgical procedure which is not curing anything. It’s like breast implants on an 11 year old.
esther chang on October 21, 2011 at 10:48 pm
This is an irony. By administering Hormone Blocking Therapy to their 11-year-old son, there are already restrictions. Is there really a choice that he has been given?
OnMyWayHome on October 22, 2011 at 12:53 am
Morally they will be judged fully for their actions
Ethically the courts have to be considered as to their standards and practices as the people overall have voted for this and many other questionable rulings.
When the standards of the Bible were left to the wayside and the Maker was sidelined as well man being whom he or she has become their own god.
They still need to be shown Love not ours Gods Love may we reflect this in our actions and in our words. Words mean things and we need to choose them carefully.
…..and I’m the first to say I would fail as my indignation and anger would show, and that’s where I would lose it.
AManofGod on October 22, 2011 at 4:03 am
I know my comments may not be popular but they are based in TRUE Christian love.
This story of the 11 boy receiving hormone blocking therapy is a great reason why lesbian and/or homosexual couples should not be allowed to adopt children! This child will be sure to have great confusion in his mind as he grows based on his “parents” lifestye. How will he know what a mother/father relationship is about? I pray for the child (and for the “parents”) and for our society that allows such things to take place.
What has the world come to brothers and sisters?
AManofGod
ornan on October 22, 2011 at 8:34 am
There are so many things wrong with this story. Although it does not say the couple is married, I cannot comment on anything that has to do with marriage although I would like to, so I guess I will go with the assumption that the two lesbians are just living with one another.
First, I find it totally wrong that any two members of the same sex that are living with each other be allowed to adopt children and raise them according to their value system and lifestyle. The family unit should consist of a mother AND father. Second, providing hormone blocking therapy clearly will confues the child and raise him in an environment where he will consider himself his own God when he decides what gender he wants to be. He will consider nothing outside of the realm of possibility and will feel he can be what ever he wants, becasue science can take care of it. I do believe though that children can be loved in environments where there is not a complete family unit such as orphanages and homes where one of the parents has passed away or divorced. Being raised by two lesbians that already have a perverted view of many aspects of life and family is wrong. My prayers go out to that child.
wilson199 on October 22, 2011 at 11:17 am
Prayer changes things. There is power in prayer… We as Christians must use it more…
” Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. (Luke 23:34)
chimzen on October 24, 2011 at 4:25 am
Its an absurd decision!! why shld the boy be given a chance to choose while his creator God, created him to be a man?
were the parents given a chance to choose..why should they put the little angle in a mixed up condition?
It aint Good at all.
Dennis Moles on October 24, 2011 at 6:43 am
I wonder, has anyone taken the time to read the whole story?
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/10/17/controversial-therapy-for-young-transgender-patients-raises-questions/
This precious little one is in so much pain and it sounds like he has been for all of his life. I don’t know all the ins and the outs of his upbringing and I do think this radical course of action seems to be a mistake; one of the therapists said its like giving liposuction to an anorexic.
But before we pile on any further please read the article. I just don’t think these ladies are quite as “evil” as we seem to be making them out to be. I think they are scared and desperate. And by fixating on their lifestyle and not their little boy’s pain I fear that we are profoundly missing the point.
amyj on October 24, 2011 at 8:31 am
As a parent, I wanted to ensure my children didn’t experience many of the things I had gone through as a child. But now that they’re young adults, I realized that many of my parenting decisions were based on my personal fears (that were formed from my childhood). But, my children are not me and I am not my parents. And most importantly, they are not being raised in the same environment as I had been raised. Seems to me that both of these women (parents) need therapy to better understand their decisions. I don’t think them providing hormone blocking to the child in their custody is going to mend or rectify whatever it was or wasn’t that they received in their childhood. What they think they may be offering to this child is merely a desire they wish they had had – but why? Let’s pray they both desire to understand this part of themselves more clearly.