In response to Lawrence Doe’s column on Nov. 14, “The Gender Debate,” it unfortunately wasn’t much of a debate but a long worded promotion of the transgender ideology.
The saddest part of it is when teen or pre-teen kids are pumped full of hormones or testosterone to change their appearance. Or worse yet, allowed to get disfiguring surgeries to try and change.
It’s a sad commentary on our society and the medical community that this is allowed to happen. Having worked with teenagers most of my life, I know this much: Most of them don’t know what they want to do. Many adults also don’t. You have to be 21 to purchase tobacco or alcohol, but you can have these procedures done at any age.
This creates a myriad of problems, and many transgender people have spoken out, wishing they never would have had these procedures. The problems go from a biological boy pitching a girls’ softball team to a state championship, to the extreme case of a transgender person doing the shooting at the Annunciation school in Minneapolis, and stating in their dissertation how they never wish they had changed.
I’m no biologist either, but like it says in the most read book of all time, ‘male and female He created them.’ As Mr. Doe spoke of the sissies and tomboys growing up. I know some of the tomboys I grew up with turned out to be well-rounded, beautiful women. Some of the sissies turned out to be b.a.’s that you would want on your side walking down a dark alley. Time is a great gift. It makes no sense to rush kids into being something they think they are or are being told they are.
Jeff Asmussen
Silver Bay
