Human Sexuality and LGBTQ
So what is “transgendered?”
“That your sex is a feeling, not a biological fact, and can change at any time. Whether you are a man or a woman, a boy or a girl, is more of a disposition or feeling about yourself than a fact of nature.”
Paul McHugh, MD, is University Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Medical School
“A woman must not wear men’s clothing, nor a man wear women’s clothing," Deuteronomy 22:5
Scriptural understanding of gender:
We hold to the Biblical belief that gender is a fixed component of our created identity.
Concerns:
• Suicide and depression rates
RESULTS: The rates of depressive symptoms (51.4% for transgender women; 48.3% for transgender men) and anxiety (40.4% for transgender women; 47.5% for transgender men) within the current study far surpass the rates of those for the general population.
Suicide attempts are alarmingly common among transgender individuals such as try to kill themselves at some point in their lives, 41% as compared with 4.6% of the general public.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/08/16/transgender-individuals-face-high-rates--suicide-attempts/31626633/
• Results of sexual reassignment surgery
The most thorough follow-up of sex-reassigned people—extending over thirty years and conducted in Sweden, where the culture is strongly supportive of the transgendered—documents their lifelong mental unrest.
Ten to fifteen years after surgical reassignment, the suicide rate of those who had undergone sex-reassignment surgery rose to twenty times that of comparable peers. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/.../23398495
Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. 1 Corinthian 6:9-11