...By the time Alex came before the Family Court at 12, she had a disgust for her female body, a rage at God for trapping her in it, and a terror of the coming breasts and menses that would prove even more forcibly that she was not the male she so passionately felt she should be.
She threatened to kill herself if she was not helped to become like a boy. In 2004, the Family Court made orders permitting Alex to go on hormone medication to suppress her development as a female from the age of 13. In late 2007, The Age can now reveal, the Family Court told the then-17-year-old Alex she could have surgery to remove her breasts...
"A rage at God."
Despite the wholeheartedly positive spin of this strange report, the above phrase leaps out to the reader. Indeed, it serves as an appropriate phrase to describe a great deal of those attitudes flagrantly displayed in our post-Christian era.
"A rage at God."
"For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures.
Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.
And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them." (Romans 1: 20-32)
