The Family Proclamation vs. Transgender Activism

#lds #familyproclamation #churchofjesuschrist

[jeffolsen]

So spot on and needed for today! Reminds me of:
"...there were many churches which professed to know the Christ, and yet they did deny the more parts of his gospel, insomuch that they did receive all manner of wickedness, and did administer that which was sacred unto him to whom it had been forbidden because of unworthiness."
- 4 Nephi vrs 27

[juliesteimle]

Let's not confuse 'niceness' with 'kindness'. "Niceness" is when you assure people about things that are not really true, but make them feel good. People imagine this is compassion. "Kindness" is helping people better themselves with the truth, but in a tactful way. It is more compassionate to spare people pain later in life by telling a hard truth today, and saving them from a really bad mistake.

[TheMisticUnicorn]

We have some family members that have very different lifestyles, such as trans, raising their kids non-gender, living together while unmarried (including having several kids out of wedlock), etc.
We can be around them and see them as our brothers and sisters and treat them with love and respect. We don't preach at them or bring things up, however they advertise and promote these lifestyles very openly at family gatherings with wearing and talking about pride flags and talking about how hateful people who disagree with them are right in front of the whole group.
The main issue is that we have small children who are very confused about these family members. We have had them ask things like "Is that a boy or a girl?". When a 4yr old asks about a young cousin because that cousin is being rasied non-gender or about an aunt because she has transitioned to appear male, it makes for conversations that small children shouldn't have to face at that age. I am not sure how to protect their innocence in this world if we have them interact with these family members. I never even considered these kind of things at all when I was a kid/teen.
It is really a difficult thing to balance. We are told that disagreeing or avioding them in any way is hateful, but is exposing our young children to these things acceptable or kind to them? Won't we be held accountable for exposing them to these things? The scriptures say to avoid the very appearance of evil.
I love these family members and pray for them, but I don't know how to be ok with being around their examples with my kids.

[sallyspencer]

As well as Men having a larger bone structure and muscle mass, they also have a large deep funnel shaped pelvis which allows Men to be able to pick up heavy object off the floor as well as carry them. The strength of men never fails to amaze me.
Women by contrast have a shallow wider pelvis with a big hole at the inlet (top) and a large hole at the outlet, it's just a girdle and is made for child birth.
With this transgenderism it is unfair competition for a biological Man to play against a Women in sports. If they want to check to make sure whether it is a Man or Women on the team just take an X-Ray of the pelvis. I am an English Midwife and we have to know the pelvis inside out and back to front.

[shanahiggins]

1 Corinthians 5:12 respectfully, please read.

[sunrisemontessori]

I know that children are born sometimes with the wrong body. I grieve for them! 😢i wonder if joy is meant only for those born In the right body. To me, the sin of homosexuality means the ”straight ”people abandoning the natural use of women….. etc. What i am hearing doesn’t match with what i was taught from the missionaries.