Transgender Teen's Suicide :: A Biblical Response

One of the top stories on Yahoo this week is about the suicide of a transgender teen.  You can read it HERE.  The boy's name was Joshua, although he thought he was a girl trapped in a boy's body, and went by the name Leelah.  The story is getting attention because of the suicide note.  "My death needs to mean something.  My death needs to be counted in the number of transgender people who commit suicide this year.  I want someone to look at that number and say, 'that's f----ed up' and fix it.  Fix society.  Please."

I'm so sorry Joshua died.  I'm sorry for his parents.  And I'm sorry that his mother is being criticized for telling Joshua the truth.  According to the suicide note, this is how she responded to his claim to being transgender.  "I immediately told my mom, and she reacted extremely negatively, telling me that it was a phase, that I would never truly be a girl, that God doesn't make mistakes, that I am wrong."  Sounds like she hit the nail on the head. 

Joshua wants society to be fixed.  As Christians we have the solution.  The Bible teaches us everything we need to know about sex.  
  • God makes males and females.  There's no such thing as a transgender person.  There are people who are gender-confused.  This was Joshua.  How do you know if you are male or female?  Simply look at your body.  What if you have the body of a boy but you feel like a girl?  Feelings do not dictate behavior.  Truth dictates behavior.  Feeling a certain way doesn't give me the right to act on those feelings.  If I feel like hurting someone, that doesn't make it right.  The Bible teaches us what to do with our feelings.  It says that life works best when we obey God's word rather than our feelings.
  • Suicide (self-murder) is wrong, and it is never the solution, nor is it the right way to make a statement or to make a difference.  You are not a martyr for killing yourself; you are a martyr when you are killed by others for your convictions -- convictions based on reality.  Suicide is cowardly, and it is the ultimate temper tantrum.  Suicide is never the fault of anyone other than the person who committed suicide.  The fact that 50% of transgender teens attempt suicide by age 20 is not an indictment against society, but proof that the transgender lifestyle only ends in sadness and suffering. 
Our society doesn't need to accept the homosexual and transgender community.  We need to love them by telling them the truth and showing them the way.  The fix that our society needs is to stop "feeling" its way into all sorts of sexual destruction and to return to the Bible for direction about human sexuality.  

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