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FOX 10 in Phoenix reports: "Some parents are not raising their babies as a boy or a girl"...they call them "theybies," or "babies without a gender assignment."
It is a craze---a fad. Not only are parents across the country falling for this craze, but Hollywood celebrities and even Prince Harry and his wife have announced they too will soon give birth to a "theybie."
Lecturers, including doctors, are giving speeches around the country explaining this new, enlightened way to raise children.
And what does God say about "theybies?"
Be informed.
The craze.
Fox 10 TV in Phoenix says, "The purpose to most who practice this way of thinking is to prevent outside influences from inflicting gender-based stereotypes onto their child."
The Phoenix station tells the story of a mother, Bonnie Love, who has two children--Madelyn, 7, and Isabella, 6, whom she is raising very differently.
She gave Madelyn a lot of pink, she says,---"everything was pink, pink, pink, girl, girl, girl dolls."
With Isabella, her 6-year-old, everything has changed. Bonnie says she wanted Isabella to make her own decision as to whether she is a boy or a girl.
Love says, "I think that you are born a certain way, and whether you---however you identify, is on your own."
But it isn't on her own. The mother admits she has already given Isabella cars and trucks and Spiderman costumes to play with---but she has also given her some girl things.
And the indoctrination by the entertainment industry and public education, preying on children from kindergarten through college, is relentless.
Human Rights Campaign and other pro-homosexual advocacy groups provide both teaching materials and, in some cases, guest instructors in the classroom.
What Fox 10 fails to note, unless they have updated their story, is that Bonnie lives with her female partner. She's a lesbian. And that matters regarding their story.
Fox 10 does, however, report that "Raising children gender-neutral, outside of traditional gender norms, is a way of parenting that has become increasingly popular in the US, allowing boys and girls to play with the same toys and wear the same clothes."
That is true. It is becoming more and more the craze because more and more far-Left, so-called progressives are experimenting with their children.
This practice is not "progressive." It's child abuse.
Vanity Fair recently reported that England's Prince Harry and wife Meghan "plan to pursue an empowering, modern parenting style" by "avoiding gender stereotypes with not yet born baby Sussex."
Fox 10 uses Dr. Anna Shier, a double board-certified physician in psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry who works with families raising "theybies," to affirm the new parenting style.
The doctor says, "We don't want our children pigeon-holed. We don't want our children to not be able to be as successful as they potentially could be."
They are suggesting that should they raise their children in a traditional way---male or female at birth---they could be denying them happiness and success.
Last December, Michael Foust wrote about parents that had been featured in an NBC story who were raising their child 'genderless."
They named the child, "Zo," because they are "waiting for Zo to identify as a boy or a girl.
The parents said:
"We felt like there are so many stereotypes that we get to put on kids"...we want "our child to have the openness to identify as whatever gender they want to whenever they feel that's right for them."
The parents both identify as transgender men.
The deception. Twisting Scripture.
There are speakers, including activist doctors, circulating through public schools "explaining" to parents this new, so-called progressive enlightenment regarding human sexuality.
Generally, the speakers are doctors and are often affiliated with local hospitals, particularly children's hospitals. Parents are accepting what they are teaching because they are recognized professionals.
Do not be misled.
Ironically, they are usually including biblical Scriptures---in the Bible-free zones of the public schools.
The biblical argument usually begins with Genesis 1:27 which says: "So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him, male and female He created him."
They then interpret this passage of Scripture to "prove and affirm" that God contains both male and female, and since we are all created in God's image, we each have male and female within us.
The deceivers also often use part of Galatians 3:28. The passage says: "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female, for you are all one."
The lie expands.
They twist Scripture--God's Word, like Satan himself did in Genesis 3.
Genesis 1:27 is fundamental in the Bible's instruction on human sexuality, but it's not the only instruction on the matter.
Understanding on any Scripture must take into account all Scripture.
The Bible provides a fuller account in Genesis 2, and further explanation of Genesis 1:27 from both Paul and Jesus Himself in Matthew 19. There's additional teaching on the matter, but let's look at these references.
Genesis gives the back story or the rest of the story regarding human sexuality. Adam is in the garden alone. Prior to this account, God had surveyed all His Creation and saw that it "was good." But in response to Adam's loneliness, God's response was, "It is not good" that man should be alone. "I will make him a helper fit for him."
God says a creation where man is without woman is "not good." We are complementary pieces in His creation. So at the close of chapter 2, God says, "Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh."
To the church in Ephesus, (Eph. 5:31), Paul quotes this verse from Genesis and reveals that the mystery of one flesh union of husband and wife is a living picture of a spiritual reality (v 32) Christ and His Church. He then instructs (v 33) that a man loves his wife as himself and a wife see that she respects her husband.
The "image of God" regarding human sexuality is not that each of us contain male and female, but rather that the duality of male and female was instituted by God as part of His created order that brings distinct halves together in marriage in demonstration of God's love for the church.
And it's God's way of sustaining the human race.
The use of Galatians 3:28 is blatantly false teaching. They always leave out the last phrase; "for you are one in Christ." Anyone who can read knows that Paul has put aside ethnicity, slave or free and gender, to make the point that we are all one in Christ.
In fact, this verse actually further affirms the reality of gender (and other) differences among humans.
Paul wrote about these people---in his day and in ours. Romans 16:18: "For those who are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and by smooth words and flattering speech deceive the hearts of the simple."
Jesus also warned us of these folks. In Matthew 7:15 He warned us to beware of false prophets who come disguised as harmless sheep---but are really vicious wolves.
These folks are wolves, disguised as angels of light.
And they are shaking their fist in the face of God, the Creator, in a spasm of rebellion.
Be Informed. Be Discerning. Be Vigilant. Be Prayerful.