A while ago, I found out that a teacher at my former high school had recently fully transitioned to a female. (For the sake of maintaining privacy I changed his name in this article; I'll call him Mr. Virgo). I heard around the school that he was in the process of it last year and that by the time August rolled around, he would be completely transitioned. At this point in my spiritual journey, I had already come to believe how it's wrong to allow others to engage in behavior that only changes them superficially. Fast forward a few months later; I had a dream. I was in a building walking down some hallway, and when I got to the end of it, I saw him: Mr. Virgo. Then I looked behind me and saw a woman. She walked up to him, shut his mouth with her hand, and eventually overcame him. What did I do as said scene was happening in my dream? I stood by and watched. This dream gave me a clear picture of how gender dysphoria not only confuses your original male or female personhood, but robs and replaces it.

After awhile, I decided to look into transgender regret cases and statistics: regret 20 percent, attempted suicides 41 percent, mental illness 60-90 percent among transgendered population. (click here). So what did I do? To be honest, very recently I started to pray that God give that teacher at my old high school, MR. Virgo, a case of transgender regret. Now I should immediately tackle this contention because I can hear it somewhere in the background: why would I ever pray for the Lord to give someone a deep sense of regret for their decision? Because how else would that person cry out to Him for forgiveness? God will never graciously call out to someone who is foolishly engaging in self-destructive behavior; some people do need to be shattered so God can finally move in that person, making them a new creation. There is an innate balance between human volition and God's sovereignty. If you're obstinately not letting God move in you, either He'll take a hammer and shatter you so you can listen to Him, or He'll leave you be, allowing you to continue to go down the wide path of destruction, unless you turn around and finally decide to follow Him.

Not only do I hope that he turns around and realizes the errors of his ways, but I've seen Mr. Virgo in my dreams where he's still a man. No matter how much he (and the plenty others like him) want to play the part of a woman (and vice versa), it will never be possible. There is no technology or medicine in the world that would ever truly turn you into a complete parallel of the opposite sex. Such a thing only exists in the desires of a world rebelling against and perverting God's original design of male and female. True compassion starts with the truth, and we should stop lying to others that your sex is easy to change with hormones and surgery. When we advocate at large an ideal that is based on falsehoods it's no longer compassion, but evil exposed as pure sociopathy. It's just as morally wrong to sit by and do nothing about it, even for those who believe in the excuses, "it's not hurting me" or "it's not my life." To that I say you're right, it's not. But it's also your intrinsic moral responsibility to deter others from engaging in self-destructive behavior, no matter how slow and subtle it is. It's the slow, downward spirals that are the greatest silent killers. How do you know if that behavior won't take a turn for the worst? What if that slow downward spiral were to accelerate and the person died? How would you feel knowing that you could have stopped them but chose not to? Needless to say, their blood would be on your hands.