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Facts Matter

Several decades ago, a very prominent liberal in Illinois once told me that “there are facts and there are principles. I believe in principles. If the facts contradict the principles, then the facts must be ignored.” This seems to be the thinking of large swaths of our current population. Forget the facts. All that is important is what we believe.

For the left, gender ideology seems to be one of those beliefs that exists far beyond the facts. The basic principle is that everyone has a sex and a gender. Biology determines your sex. Gender identity is determined by something inside, something known only to the person.

Today, there are more than 200 colleges in the U.S. that promote this gender ideology by offering degrees in gender studies as a major or a minor, despite there being no evidence that such a thing as gender even exists. The entire structure of gender ideology is based on a theory spawned by the deranged mind of John Money, whose research has been discredited by his own disastrous experiments. His seminal experiment was a catastrophic failure. And that failure, that fact, has been ignored . . . because it must be since the failure contradicts the principle.

The idea of gender has become so entrenched in our culture it’s difficult to see a path to escape from it. Yet it was created out of thin air and has metastasized throughout all our institutions within the last half century. Even major Christian denominations have become corrupted by gender ideology.

We have become so desensitized to gender, it seems that most of us have become resigned to it and have lost any sense of the danger the ideology poses. Take the transgender issue.

Transgender clinics for children have sprung up, seemingly overnight, throughout the country. After all, children know best who and what they are. Performances by drag queens at libraries, schools, restaurants and other public venues have become commonplace. All in good fun.

The dark side of the issue is being ignored by most. Little attention is paid to the mental illnesses that underlie the transgender phenomenon, or to the genuine danger that many transgenders pose toward others because of their mental illnesses, their narcissism, their twisted thinking.

This dark side cannot be ignored for long.

Recently Kelsey Boren, 31, a former teacher’s aide in Oregon, was convicted of 11 counts of encouraging child sexual abuse. Boren is a man who claims he’s a woman. And he is a drag queen, whose stage name is Alwaiz Craving. What he’s always craving seems evident by what he was convicted for, and by the fact that he was mentoring an 11 year old boy to become a drag queen. Boren had arranged for the boy to perform at a local pub named after Satan. As far as I can tell the child’s parents have not been prosecuted. Shockingly, Boren received less than one year in county jail for his conviction on 11 felony charges.

If this case doesn’t reveal the dark side of transgenderism clearly enough for you, several years ago I investigated the case of a four-year-old boy living in New York who had suffered abuse and torture at the hands of a transgender woman (a man) so severe that the child died.

Because of my past profession, I am accustomed to seeing the worst humanity has to offer, including countless cases of severe abuse that have led to the death of a child.  Four decades ago, I investigated more than 200 such cases during the course of my first investigation into the child welfare system.  But I’ve never seen one quite like the torture murder of Myls Dobson.

Myls’ killer was the new “girlfriend” of the child’s father. Born Christopher King, “she” was known as Janaie Jones and reportedly used the stage name of Kryzie King.  “She” had a $3,200 per month apartment at the Ritz Plaza in Midtown Manhattan and was a “transgender performer.”

Jones/King supposedly had a juvenile record but nothing as an adult. During an interview by the police, Jones/King admitted to starving the boy for more than two weeks, beating him with the buckle end of a belt all over his body, burning him with cigarettes and making him stand outside in his underwear for more than an hour when the temperature was 9 degrees.  “She” eventually called paramedics when the boy became unresponsive and they found him unconscious in a bathtub with extensive burns and bruises all over his body, including his genitals.

This is evil in its most sadistic manifestation.  You don’t get there overnight.  You don’t go from crime free to this kind of behavior unless you’ve already traveled many miles down the path of depravity. Additionally, Jones/King is a man.  He is not a she, no matter how much the gender cult wants it to be so.  This is a sick, twisted, evil man.

He is also transgendered.  That does not mean that all transgendered men are sick, twisted murderers. But this guy is among the worst.

The American Psychological Association says:

Transgender is an umbrella term for persons whose gender identity, gender expression or behavior does not conform to that typically associated with the sex to which they were assigned at birth. Gender identity refers to a person’s internal sense of being male, female or something else; gender expression refers to the way a person communicates gender identity to others through behavior, clothing, hairstyles, voice or body characteristics.

Until recently, transgendered people were considered to have a mental disorder, specifically “gender identity disorder.”  But with the publication of the DSM-5, the term has been changed to “gender dysphoria” to de-emphasize that it is a “disorder.”

From the descriptions I’ve read about the injuries Myls suffered, I have to conclude that this is a case of child sexual sadism.  Not having access to all the investigation reports, I can’t be certain. But it sure looks like it. In any event, what Jones/King did to the boy proves that he was, indeed, disordered, to say the least.

I won’t go into all the other chaos of this little boy’s life, you can read a few of the articles hereherehere, and here.   The whole story of his short time on this earth is sad beyond comprehension and should be viewed as an indictment of the pathetic paper shuffling, buck passing system we’ve set up to make it seem we care about protecting children.

If we are ever going to get a clear picture of what’s going wrong (and right, for that matter), let’s first stop with all the woke lingo and start reporting the facts.  Maybe then, when we can see how “disordered” our world is becoming, we might be able to do something about it.

The torture murder of Myls Dobson by a transgendered child sexual sadist is outrageous.  But it is also outrageous to downplay the contribution played by the murderer’s lifestyle and HIS self-styled sexual orientation.

Christopher King and Kelsey Boren are not representative of the transgender community as a whole. But there are many like them within that community and there are many more who pose a less aggressive threat. More importantly, these cases are cautionary tales. They are a reminder that transgenderism involves a deranged view of reality that presents an imminent danger to children. That fact cannot be ignored if you care about protecting children.





Everything Is Not Awesome At Lego

Last December, we published an article about how American Girl went woke, pushing gender ideology and the LGBTQ agenda through their dolls and books. Sadly, American Girl isn’t the only generationally beloved toy company to have embraced the way of the world. The latest toy company to have gone full woke is Lego, and as in the case of American Girl, this isn’t a sudden switch.

In 2021, Lego released a set called, “Everyone Is Awesome.” Inspired by the LGBTQ flag, it was released in honor of pride month. (See the featured picture above.)

In 2022 they launched a campaign entitled “The A-Z of Awesome,” with the tagline stating, “This is the A-Z of Awesome, a colorful alphabet of identities built from LEGO bricks, created by our incredible LGBTQIA+ fans!”

This seems to have flown mostly under the radar until Lego posted it to their Instagram page about a week ago, sparking frustration in parents who don’t want their children exposed to the pervasion of the LGBTQ agenda.

For the campaign, Lego invited people who identify as LGBTQ+ (including a man pretending to be a woman) to build something related to a letter in the alphabet that they felt represented them and their “identity.” Among others, you will find “C for Coming Out,” “I for Intersex,” “L for Lesbian,” “N for Non-Binary,” and “Q for Queer” (see photos).

Lego also said they would be donating to “LGBTQIA+ charity partners” as part of the campaign.

It’s incredibly sad when yet another company – especially one that has touched so many childhoods – falls prey to the religion of the world. In Matthew 12:30, Jesus said, “Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.” Even though a secular company may appear to uphold Christian values for a time, the company is against Christ and will eventually show it.  Lego is following the world because it doesn’t have eyes to see what God’s law says.

“They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.” (Ephesians 4:18-19)

In short, Christians shouldn’t be surprised when a secular company goes the way of the world.

What makes Lego’s story more tragic is that Ole Kirk Kristiansen, Lego’s founder, was a Christian (and by some accounts a very devout one, praying with his employees before work and holding company-wide Bible studies). Even though the current owner of Lego is Ole Kirk Kristiansen’s grandson, the company didn’t retain its Christian heritage, evidence that it doesn’t take much for a family, organization, or country to lose faith. Parents must make a point of training their children up in the Lord, encouraging them in faith, and teaching them Christ. In a sin-dominated world, parents aren’t the only ones seeking to train their children.

Every time a secular company goes woke, it should serve as both a warning and a reminder. Christian, this world needs Jesus so desperately. We are going to stick out more and more as aliens in this world while companies that seemed trustworthy capitulate to godless ideologies. By God’s grace, let’s use our non-conformity to shine the light of the gospel of Jesus Christ into this present darkness with the hope and prayer that hearts turn back to Him.