The Heart of the Trans Movement Part 1: “Children Should Lead”

The Sacred Core: Children Should Lead

According to trans activists, children—young, impressionable, naive, ignorant—should be the ones leading parents when it comes to who they “really are.”

Now, this woman is a lesbian, still “married” to her partner, and raising their two sons. She came to realize, however, that her son was not transgender, but that she had viewed everything “different” about her child through the lens of transgender identity and that, by not giving her child the identity of “I am a boy,” she had confused and manipulated her own child into believing that he was a girl.

During an interview1 where she discusses her story, the woman shared something that I thought was very illuminating. Referring to transgender ideology, she said, “This belief system, the heart of it, says that children should lead.” According to trans activists, children—young, impressionable, naive, ignorant—should be the ones leading parents when it comes to who they “really are.” Parents are expected to suspend their questions, concerns, and natural inhibitions to their child’s transition because, of course, the child knows best (and those concerns are just their internalized transphobia, so we’re told!). But consider this verse of Scripture.

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. (1 Corinthians 13:11)

After her first son’s transition, Rose’s second son likewise declared he was a girl, and that was the catalyst that helped her realize neither of her sons was a girl! Rose shared that gender therapists did not “assess” her second son to see if he was “really” transgender (as many people believe these therapists do). Rather, she said “assessment doesn’t exist when you believe someone is innately trans. Assessment is actually in violation of that.” To the gender therapist, Rose’s son was, within seconds, Rose’s daughter and that was that. Again, it’s this “sacred core” belief that children should lead—and no one, not parents, extended family, therapists, or doctors, can question that child’s “identity.”

Train Up a Child

Will our children be equipped to stand strong against the cultural “giants” of our day, or will they be overcome?

This is so upside down to the way that God commands and counsels parents to raise their children.

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. (Proverbs 22:6)

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. (Ephesians 6:4)

The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother. (Proverbs 29:15)

Discipline your son, for there is hope; do not set your heart on putting him to death. (Proverbs 19:18)

And to how God instructs children to view their parents.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. (Ephesians 6:1)

Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching, for they are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck. (Proverbs 1:8–9)

God has raised up men—fathers—to be the heads of their homes, to—along with mothers—lovingly direct, guide, and discipline their children in the ways of the Lord.

God has raised up men—fathers—to be the heads of their homes, to—along with mothers—lovingly direct, guide, and discipline their children in the ways of the Lord. To lead their families into truth, giving them the proper worldview to understand themselves and the world around them. This is how God has designed the family, and when this is subverted and children lead instead of parents, children become confused, frustrated, and even scared—longing (even if they don’t know it) for the safety of their parents leading them.

They Just Can’t Be Consistent!

Consider the rest of Rose’s story. She writes,

I resolved I would have to put all my own feelings away, and support my transgender child. And that is what I did.

With this one declaration, after months of refusing to tell our son he was a boy, we changed his entire world. We told him he could be a girl. He jumped up and down on the bed, happy, saying, “I’m a girl, I’m a girl!” (What a relief it must have been to him to actually have an identity to hold on to!).

Suddenly, after years of allowing her elder son to lead her when it came to his gender, she told him he was a girl—and he latched right on to it. Rose then initiated changing his name and socially transitioning him. In other words, after believing that her child should be the one in the lead when it came to gender, as soon as he was “transgender,” she began to lead him, and he was relieved—but the road she began to lead him down was a dangerous one that, if by God’s common grace her eyes hadn’t been opened, would have resulted in dangerous puberty blockers, irreversible cross-sex hormones, and countless painful surgeries.

In other words, trans activists believe children should lead in telling adults their “identity.” But, once they do, adults take over and cement that child’s ideas, leading them onto a superhighway littered with pain and regret. It’s an incredibly inconsistent ideology!

You Are Always Leading Your Children

Parents, you are leading your children. You are either leading them toward life by teaching them what is right and good and true, or. . . . you are leading them toward death and destruction.

No matter what Rose initially thought when she gave the reins of identity over to her small son, she was always leading. By leaving the question of gender open-ended and letting him choose, she was leading him into confusion and questioning. The woman was leading him away from obvious reality into a land of shadows where biological reality means nothing. No wonder he was confused (and eventually his brother too!)!

And this is the very same thing happening to children every day in public schools and through the secular media. Teachers, social media influencers, cartoon characters, librarians, books, drag queens, and more are telling impressionable young children that biology has no meaning and they can be whatever they want. These people are, whether well-intentioned or not (and many of them are not well-intentioned—they are actively trying to sexualize your children for their own perverse purposes), sowing seeds of confusion in children and leading them toward a destructive lifestyle—all the while claiming that the children are the ones leading.

Parents, you are leading your children. You are either leading them toward life by teaching them what is right and good and true, or you are failing to teach them, and by default, allowing them to make up their own minds and form their own worldview from the world around them. In doing so, you are leading them toward death and destruction.

You are leading your children—are you leading them toward life or death?

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.