I want to ask a simple question.

When did we decide that a child – who cannot drive, cannot vote, cannot sign a contract, cannot buy a beer – is old enough to make a permanent irreversible decision about their own body?

Because that is exactly what the gender transition movement is asking us to accept. That an eight year old, a ten year old, a fourteen year old has the clarity and the maturity to decide they were born in the wrong body and that the solution is hormones and surgery.

And that any parent who pumps the brakes on that decision is the dangerous one.

I have watched this argument evolve in real time. What started as protecting adults who experienced genuine distress quietly became a movement that targets children. Schools affirming identities without parental consent. Doctors prescribing puberty blockers like candy. Social media algorithms feeding confused teenagers a steady diet of transition content until confusion hardens into conviction.

This is not compassion. Compassion does not permanently alter a child’s body before they are old enough to understand the consequences.

God made them male and female. That is not a starting point for negotiation. That is the design. And the adults in the room – parents, pastors, doctors, teachers – have a responsibility to protect children from decisions they are not equipped to make.

Even when the culture calls that protection cruelty.

Especially then.

Stephon Rudd

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