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Time Magazine's Transgender Cover Story
Time magazine ran an article titled "The Transgender Tipping Point" about the next civil rights battleground—transgenderism. In response, Andrew Comiskey, a Christian leader who has dealt with same-sex attraction, writes that the "man" (who looks like a beautiful woman) on the cover of Time has a "wound" in his "masculine soul that no amount of surgeries or hormones can restore."
Comiskey calls it the "the brave new world of gender anarchy." He writes, "After the Supreme Court legalized 'gay marriage,' we now face the transgender transformation (one gender seeking to become the other … We who … redefined marriage now reap the whirlwind. This next 'transition' is a further hemorrhaging of God's image, one most destructive to confused children who at this very moment are being primed for 'gender reassignment' because at five and six-years-old they 'feel' different from their same-gender peers."
What can we do? Comiskey asks. "Extend the mercy of Jesus Christ and his healing kingdom for persons in your world who are evidently gender confused. Pray for them. Defend them against bullies. A young African-American man at my gym acted and dressed outrageously; he was tormented by the guys there. Jesus told me to draw near to him and befriend him and to be his advocate. I helped him to receive the Father's blessing on his masculinity … We do little good by merely railing against bad social trends. Do something. Act like a Christian. Fight for the dignity of persons subject to cruel, dehumanizing precedents and people."