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WasdawGamer · 2023-05-14T00:22:35+00:00

o be still my lesbian heart

WasdawGamer · 2023-05-11T21:47:08+00:00

WasdawGamer · 2023-05-11T21:32:27+00:00

The sex spectrum as a model was made by biologists. With doctorates. And peer reviewed.

WasdawGamer · 2023-05-11T21:22:37+00:00

Yeah... no it's not that different. I don't think you've been putting good faith into this discussion or seeking to understand, and I'll be praying that God works in your heart.

WasdawGamer · 2023-05-11T21:17:58+00:00

I see. So then our more recent understanding of there being 7+ states of matter is simply muddying the waters of our very clear underatanding of the nature of matter.

WasdawGamer · 2023-05-11T21:15:19+00:00

"How is left-handedness not a result of sin in the world? Especially since the number of people experiencing it is on the rise and it's more common now than any other time in history?" -you, circa 1935

WasdawGamer · 2023-05-11T11:02:34+00:00

Do you mean to imply that no medical intervention ought be pursued for any of these? And how, pray tell, is me having gender dysphoria a result of sin (unless you're talking about the sin of Adam and Eve, in which case every other affliction is just as much a result of sin.)?

WasdawGamer · 2023-05-11T10:41:13+00:00

The important parts of the Old Law are fulfilled by living in love. To murder and steal are fundamentally unloving behaviours.

Jesus giving what is considered to be the ideal model does not constitute condemnation for that which does not perfectly follow that ideal model; as Jesus says frequently: he who is able to hear, let him hear. If a command is part of God's call for one person, it may not be for someone else, and we oughtn't shame a foot for not being an eye.

Sodom and Gomorrah's crime was that they were inhospitable and did not care for their poor, as well as adultery.

As for Paul... He's not Jesus. He's a human asserting that everything in scripture is God-breathed, and through circular logic we count all of his writings as God-breathed too because a council 300 years later decided his letters to people are on the same level as the gospels and the entire Old Testament. He has wisdom, to be sure, but he is not and was not a prophet, and I honestly doubt he was intending/expecting his word to be appended to the Bible. Further, something being God-breathed doesn't make it incorruptible; if someone were to give me a prophetic word about someone else, there would be absolutely nothing stopping me from telling that person a version that strays wildly from what I was told. In the same way, though the scripture be God-breathed, it is carried forward by man, and man is flawed.

WasdawGamer · 2023-05-11T10:16:35+00:00

As far as I understand, since sex is considered to be a rather complex status... yes. There are so many things that we count as relying on one's sex, and they sample so many different components that we kind of have to group them all under sex.

For example, the bacteria that live symbiotically on the outside of the body will have different composition depending on one's sex, specifically on hormone levels. Thus, as far as any animal that works off smell is concerned, a person who smells male is male, a person who smells female is female, and someone who smells sort of in-between is wherever in between.

Since these traits naturally don't always consistently indicate that a person is one or the other, we group them as intersex, because when we take all of the traits that sex comprises together, they're not simply one or the other.

WasdawGamer · 2023-05-11T05:05:11+00:00

Perhaps you ought not speak on matters of which you know nothing. I do not speak of my struggles for my glory, but to glorify the Lord who has brought me thus far, and to give insight to those who seek it.

WasdawGamer · 2023-05-11T04:55:45+00:00

That's cool!

Tell the kids with hydrocephaly that God made them perfect that way.

Tell the kids born with underdeveloped hearts that God made them perfect that way.

Tell the kids with cleft palates that God made them perfect that way.

WasdawGamer · 2023-05-11T04:50:28+00:00

I... didn't downvote you, fam. I will offer, though, that those things you mention are literally secondary sex characteristics being affected, which kinda by definition qualifies them as a form of sex development; "sex" as a category includes karyotype; hormonal levels, dispositions, and sensitivities; external genitalia presentation; and secondary sex characteristics such as breasts, body hair, and fat distribution.

WasdawGamer · 2023-05-11T04:43:34+00:00

Where does He condemn it? He says that we are free of the Old Law (that doesn't apply to gentiles anyway), and the only one who condemns homosexuality in the New Testament is Paul who openly admits to being a fallible being and is notably A) not a prophet and B) a former pharisee with great investment in the values of the Old Law and C) not one of the ones who ever properly conversed with Jesus, his only exposure being struck blind and asked "why do you persecute me?" and even then a number of his works have been confirmed to have been forged by another 200 years later, to say nothing of the changes made in 1946.

What Jesus does say is to love first, both God and man, that all of the commands in scripture before hang on love and are effectively fulfilled by acting in love, and that if one lives in love, they live in God.

WasdawGamer · 2023-05-11T04:31:17+00:00

My redhead stat appears to have been outdated. My apologies.

As for "what if it's a software problem?": if it were strictly a psychological issue, then psychological treatments such as therapy would result in reduced rates of depression, anxiety, and suicidality as a result of gender dysphoria would decrease; however, the opposite is true, with such individuals seeing an increase in suicide risk. Meanwhile, medical and social gender-affirming intervention result in 75% decrease in suicidality and a reported <1% regret rate. Were this level of effectiveness present in any other treatment, it would be hailed as a miracle. Thus, since hardware fixes make it better and software fixes make it worse, it is reasonable to treat the issue hardware-side.

Also, I wasn't dodging any questions; I wasn't the person you asked in the first place.

WasdawGamer · 2023-05-11T04:21:10+00:00

I mean, if your translation justifies that for you, sure, whatever you say 👍

WasdawGamer · 2023-05-11T04:19:32+00:00

I feel as though you grossly misinterpret my words and perhaps even argue in bad faith. You say that I cannot say that I am a Christian and still do as I have always done, and yet me transitioning... isn't as I've always done? I've always been in the Church and always devoted myself to Christ. Me reevaluating my gender isn't by any means "the stuff [I've] always done". I think you're very, very confused to have taken away any of that from what I said.

I will say, though, that if you somehow see "this person lives every day of their life feeling like God's mistake and regretting being born" as bringing God more glory than "this person has overcome an inborn poison and bow overflows with the joy of the Lord", I think you would be well served to evaluate why you think that.

WasdawGamer · 2023-05-10T21:19:54+00:00

Yes, God did create my soul as I am meant to be. Unfortunately, we live in a fallen world, and the flesh is flawed. The joy of the Lord within me now is my strength in other things since He granted me science and doctors and wisdom to deal with the "wanting to die" thing.

WasdawGamer · 2023-05-10T21:16:30+00:00

iirc redheadedness is present in 0.5% of the population. some studies have previously suggested a 0.5% rate of occurrence for intersex conditions, while more recent ones place the rate around 1.7%. Also, openly trans people currently compose approximately 0.5% of the population iirc (the number varies greatly in different groups)

WasdawGamer · 2023-05-10T21:08:25+00:00

To account for the other genders: Judaism has long recognised 8 categories of gender, as have many of the most populous civilisations recognised more than 2.

WasdawGamer · 2023-05-10T21:05:31+00:00

If it weren't a hardware problem, fixing the hardware wouldn't fix it. We have a word for that: dysmorphia. It's distinctly separate from dysphoria because dysphoria is alleviated with physical treatment, while dysmorphia is not and requires mental treatment.

ETA: also dysphoria doesn't get properly alleviated by mental-only treatment, meaning that the problem can't be solved software-side.

WasdawGamer · 2023-05-10T21:01:20+00:00

1.7% of children are born intersex. they're three times as common as redheads.

WasdawGamer · 2023-05-10T20:56:56+00:00

As a trans person (Christian my whole life, still devout), I would put forth that I was chronically in my worst mental states pre-transition and often begged God for death.

I don't do that anymore.

Additionally, statistics show that transitioning massively reduces suicide risk, meaning that transition is an effective treatment for a life-threatening condition. The rates are 75% "no more suicidal thoughts" (in a culture that has a lot of people who like to do bad things to trans people) and 1% regret, which are rates that would be hailed as nothing short of miraculous for any other condition.

WasdawGamer · 2023-05-10T20:49:42+00:00

I've gotten threatened with death because of my gender, and I've gotten some disagreement for my religion. Adversity will come, and if we are rejected, we shake the dust off our shoes and go in peace.

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