A Lie in a White Coat: Why Trans-Affirming Care Is Not Health Care

🥼😷A Lie in a White Coat: Why Trans-Affirming Care Is Not Health Care

> “He created them male and female, and blessed them and named them Man when they were created.” — Genesis 5:2

“Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.” — Proverbs 27:6

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I. Introduction – When Medicine Becomes a Mask for a Lie

Our world is drowning in slogans. One of the loudest is: “Trans-affirming care is health care.” It is shouted in legislatures, plastered across hospital billboards, and repeated in classrooms. It sounds compassionate. It sounds medical. It sounds inevitable.

But slogans don’t heal wounds. They hide them.

The reality is plain: trans-affirming care is not health care. It is the mutilation of healthy bodies in service of a lie. It is the betrayal of confused children by the very institutions meant to protect them. And it is the rebranding of rebellion against God as medicine.

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II. The Numbers They Don’t Want You to See

We are told constantly that without “affirmation,” transgender-identifying people will die. The threat of suicide is wielded like a weapon: “Affirm or else you are killing them.” But the numbers expose the myth.

A landmark study in Sweden revealed that those who underwent sex-reassignment surgery had suicide rates 19 times higher than the general population (Dhejne et al., PLoS ONE, 2011).

The CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey shows that suicidal ideation among trans-identifying youth remains staggeringly high, despite decades of growing affirmation.

In every decade where “affirming care” has expanded, the suicide rates have not fallen — they have climbed.

If affirmation were truly life-saving, we would see a decline. Instead, the wound deepens. The pain festers. The lie kills.

The world shouts “science!” but ignores the data when it cuts against the ideology.

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III. When Disagreement Is Called Violence

We now live in a culture where to disagree is to be violent.

If you say, “A man cannot become a woman,” you’re branded a murderer.

If you say, “A child’s body should not be mutilated,” you’re accused of blood on your hands.

If you say, “God made them male and female,” you’re charged with hate speech.

This is not compassion. It is coercion. It is gaslighting on a cultural scale. It takes the faithful wound of truth and labels it abuse, while giving the enemy’s deadly kiss and calling it love.

But Scripture teaches the opposite: “Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy” (Prov. 27:6). Real love tells the truth even when it hurts. Fake love affirms lies even as it kills.

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IV. The Theology of the Body – War Against the Maker

This is not just a medical debate. It is a theological rebellion.

God created us male and female (Gen. 1:27). These are not costumes to be swapped. They are covenantal callings woven into creation. Your body is not a mistake — it is a masterpiece.

To declare war on the body is to declare war on the One who made it. Every surgery, every hormone injection, every puberty blocker says, “God got it wrong. I will fix it.”

Romans 9 answers plainly: “But who are you, O man, to answer back to God?”

Christ came not to affirm our confusion but to redeem it. He does not sanctify our rebellion but forgives and restores. To be “born again” is not to be refashioned by the scalpel but transformed by the Spirit.

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V. The Medical Betrayal – When Doctors Become Merchants

The Hippocratic oath once said: “First, do no harm.” But in the era of gender ideology, harm is rebranded as health.

Healthy breasts cut off and discarded.

Functioning reproductive organs destroyed.

Children sterilized before they’ve even entered adulthood.

This is not healing. It is butchery in a white coat. And it is lucrative. Billions of dollars flow through gender clinics. Doctors, pharmaceutical companies, and hospitals profit from a lifetime of drugs, surgeries, and follow-up care.

What should outrage us is this: they prey not on the strong but on the most vulnerable — children wrestling with confusion, trauma, or abuse. The very ones who should be protected are placed on the altar of ideology.

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VI. The Pastoral Response – Truth and Tears Together

The Church cannot meet this crisis with silence. Silence is complicity. Nor can we meet it with cruelty. The struggler is not our enemy — the ideology is.

To the struggler: You are not your feelings. You are not a mistake. Your body is God’s gift, not your prison. Christ sees you, loves you, and offers redemption deeper than your confusion.

To parents: Do not hand your children over to this machine. They need your courage. Shepherd them, even if the world mocks you. Better to be mocked with your child whole than applauded while they are harmed.

To the Church: Preach clearly. Disciple faithfully. Show compassion without compromise. The truth will wound at first, but it will heal. Lies soothe for a moment, but they always kill.

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VI-B. Answering the Suicide Myth

The single loudest claim of gender ideology is this: “If you do not affirm, they will kill themselves. If you affirm, you save their life.” Parents are told this. Teachers are told this. Legislators are told this. And many are bullied into compliance.

But it is a myth.

The Swedish study most often cited by activists (Dhejne et al., 2011) actually shows the opposite: those who underwent surgical transition had suicide rates 19 times higher than the general population. The researchers themselves admitted the interventions did not eliminate mental health struggles.

Closer to home, American surveys show that even in states with the most aggressive “affirming care” laws, suicide rates among transgender-identifying youth have not declined — they remain devastatingly high, often above 40% reporting serious attempts.

If “affirming care” were medicine, it would produce measurable healing. But it doesn’t. Instead, it medicalizes despair and sells it as compassion.

This is where the Church must respond both with courage and compassion. Suicide is not prevented by affirming a lie but by offering hope grounded in truth. Christ alone speaks to the despairing heart: “Come to Me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” (Matt. 11:28).

The Gospel, not hormones, is the only balm strong enough to bind this wound.

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VII. Conclusion – The Only Real Healer

The world chants: “Trans-affirming care saves lives.”

But the evidence shouts back: it destroys them.

The suicide rates don’t fall. They rise. The bodies aren’t healed. They are mutilated. The souls aren’t comforted. They are left adrift.

This is not health care. It is harm, baptized in rainbow slogans.

But there is a better word. The voice that spoke male and female into being still speaks: “Behold, I make all things new.”

Health is found not in denying God’s design, but in embracing it. Healing is not in hormones or scalpels, but in Christ who redeems body and soul.

The Church must not bend to the slogans. We must stand with both compassion and conviction and say to a broken world:

This is not health care. But Christ is.

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