Follow me on Twitter @WilliamGMcCray and Instagram @SirWilliamGMcCray to keep up on the latest! As former Olympian athlete and reality television star Bruce Jenner reveals he may be seen as a “macho male” but “I’m a woman,” Southern Baptist Convention’s Russell Moore offers a solution to alienation from identities that transgender people struggle with. Clearly, Bruce needs to be in a meant institution. It is utterly ridiculous and a waste of time and money for him to have a sex change at this point in his life. Additionally, they LGVT Community should not be excited because he attempted to distance himself from the when he said he was not gay, but wanted to be a woman. So he is going to be a lesbian. The entire situation is just bazaar. What is it that the Kardashian women do to men that causes them to loose their mind. Kim killed RayJ while she landed on top, he ex-husband Kris Humpheries we do not hear of anymore, Kloe caused Lamar Oden to be a crackhead, Kortuney has a man that will pump her with babies, but not marry her, and now the ruthless mother Kris has made the man that could be considered to be the world’s greatest athlete want to be a woman.
Jenner also shared his internal struggles with being transgender.
“I look at it this way—Bruce always telling a lie. He’s lived a lie his whole life about who he is. And I can’t do that any longer,” the 65-year-old former athlete said, though referring to himself using male pronouns.
Russell Moore, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, responded to the Jenner’s interview.
Moore suggested all could understand and identify with the struggles of the transgender.
Understanding their struggles, however, doesn’t mean we should “fall for the cultural narrative behind the transgender turn,” Moore warned. “This narrative is rooted in the ancient heresy of Gnosticism, with the idea that the ‘real’ self is separate from who one is as an embodied, material being. Body parts and chromosomal patterns are dispensable since the self is radically disconnected from the body, the psychic from the material.”
The problem is, he explained, that the old Gnostic heresy combined with contemporary expressive individualism gives rise to “the idea that I must be true to whomever I perceive my ‘real me’ to be on the inside in order to be ‘authentic.’”
According to a 2003 study conducted in Sweden, transsexuals who change their gender through body mutilation or hormone therapy have a higher suicide rate than the general population.
The study, which followed 191 male-to-female gender reassignments and 133 female-to-male gender reassignments from 1973-2003, found that suicide attempts and in-patient psychiatric treatment actually increased in Sweden among those who had a sex change.
Peter Sprigg, senior fellow for policy studies at the Family Research Council in Washington on gender-identity issues, earlier pointed to a lack of proper counseling.
