APA Defines “Transgender” & “Transsexual”
Radio Commentary, 90.7, 91.7 New Life FM, August 28, 2015 – By Sue Ella Deadwyler
Last week I mentioned that activists have transitioned in recent years from the term transvestite, which meant cross-dressing, to the current term of “transgender.” Both terms defy the fact that God created male and female and formed their bodies differently for specific purposes. The emergence of the term “transgender” is another effort to deny the Creator, the One True God.
According to the American Psychiatric Association (APA), transgender is an umbrella term for anyone whose gender identity, gender expression or behavior does not conform to the typical associations with the sex they were “assigned at birth” (APA’s term), which is a misnomer, since the sexual identity of males and females is a built-in feature of the body.
Let me further interrupt the APA with this question. If it were possible that sex were “assigned at birth,” who “assigns” it – the obstetrician or the baby’s father or mother, friends and relatives or population control officials? Of course not! Sexual identity is not an assignment; it’s an organic physiological fact determined at conception. Continue reading