The Gender Cult: When Society Decided to Sacrifice Children to Ideology by Jeff Callaway

The Gender Cult: When Society Decided to Sacrifice Children to Ideology

By Jeff Callaway

Texas Outlaw Poet

I. PROLOGUE — THE ALTAR HAS RETURNED

In a sterile hospital room, fluorescent lights hum overhead while a nurse prepares a syringe filled with synthetic hormones. A child sits on the examination table, legs dangling, while anxious parents clutch consent forms they barely understand. The language is clinical, sanitized, compassionate even. Gender-affirming care. Medically necessary treatment. Life-saving intervention. The words sound like mercy.

But strip away the euphemisms and professional courtesy, and you'll find something ancient lurking beneath the surface. You'll find an altar. You'll find a knife. You'll find the oldest lie civilization ever told itself: that you can purchase peace by sacrificing your children.

The pagans of antiquity passed their infants through the fire to Molech, the bull-headed god who demanded the most precious offering. They believed the screams would please their deity, that prosperity would follow the smoke rising from tiny burning bodies. The drums would pound, the priests would chant, and mothers and fathers would convince themselves they were doing the right thing, the necessary thing, the loving thing.

Today we have replaced the bronze idol with gender clinics. We've traded the drums for medical jargon. The priests wear lab coats instead of ceremonial robes. But the altar remains, and children are still the sacrifice.

When did compassion become cruelty? When did medical ethics transform into medical experimentation? When did we decide that affirming a child's confusion was more important than protecting their body from irreversible harm?

The answer is simple and terrible: we decided it when we forgot what a child is, what a body means, and Who made us.

II. THEOLOGICAL FOUNDATION — WHAT THE CHURCH TEACHES ABOUT THE HUMAN PERSON

Before we can understand the magnitude of the lie, we must remember the truth. The Catholic Church teaches something revolutionary about the human person, something that stands in direct opposition to the gender cult's philosophy.

A. Created, Not Constructed

In the beginning, God created man in His own image. Male and female He created them. These words from Genesis are not poetry meant to be reinterpreted by every generation according to its whims. They are revelation. They tell us that sexual difference is not an accident of biology or a social construct imposed by patriarchy. It is divine design.

God spoke the world into existence, but when He created humanity, He formed us with His own hands from the dust of the earth and breathed life into our nostrils. This intimate act of creation means something. It means our bodies are not raw material to be reshaped according to our feelings. It means the body reveals truth about who we are.

The Catechism teaches that the human person is created in the image and likeness of God, and this image is stamped upon both body and soul. We are not spirits trapped in flesh, yearning to escape. We are embodied souls, unified persons whose physical form participates in our dignity. The body is not a prison. It is not a mistake. It is not something separate from our true self that must be corrected to match our internal sense of identity.

When God looked at everything He had made, He declared it very good. This includes the binary reality of male and female, the complementarity of the sexes, the meaning encoded in our very chromosomes.

B. The Unity of Body and Soul

The ancient heresy of Gnosticism taught that matter was evil and spirit was good, that the body was a cage from which the enlightened soul must escape. The Church condemned this lie in the early centuries, but it has returned in new clothing. Gender ideology is neo-Gnosticism dressed in progressive language.

The Catechism states clearly that the human person is a being at once corporeal and spiritual, a unity of body and soul. The soul is not the self and the body merely its vehicle. Rather, the soul is the form of the body. This philosophical language means that body and soul are so profoundly united that they form a single nature. You cannot be yourself without your body. Your body is you.

This truth demolishes the foundation of gender ideology. When a child says, "I feel like I'm a girl trapped in a boy's body," the proper response is not affirmation but gentle correction rooted in reality. There is no girl trapped anywhere. There is a boy who is confused, who is suffering, who needs help understanding the truth about himself, not surgical mutilation of the body God gave him.

The body shares in the dignity of the image of God. It is animated by a spiritual soul, and this makes it sacred. We are called to honor our bodies, not destroy them. We are called to accept the gift of our physical reality, not demand that surgeons remake us in the image of our desires.

C. Human Dignity Is Inherent, Not Self-Assigned

In our age of radical individualism, we have come to believe that identity is self-determined, that we create ourselves through acts of will, that dignity flows from personal choice. This is a lie that leads to death.

The Church teaches that human dignity is inherent, not assigned. Every person possesses infinite worth not because of what they feel or choose or accomplish, but because they are created by God, redeemed by Christ, and destined for eternity. This dignity cannot be increased by surgery or decreased by disease. It exists independent of our feelings about ourselves.

This is why the Church can simultaneously affirm the infinite dignity of every person while rejecting gender ideology. The two are not in conflict. In fact, true respect for human dignity requires us to reject the lie that we can change our sex, because that lie encourages people to mutilate their bodies in pursuit of an impossible goal.

The person suffering from gender dysphoria deserves compassion, care, and truthful guidance. They deserve therapy that helps them accept their body, not drugs that poison their development and surgeries that permanently disfigure them. They deserve to be loved enough to be told the truth, even when the truth is difficult.

III. FROM COMPASSION TO CORRUPTION — HOW GENDER IDEOLOGY ENTERED THE WEST

The path from sanity to madness is rarely traveled in a single leap. It is a gradual descent, each step seeming reasonable until you look back and realize how far you've fallen. Gender ideology's infiltration of Western civilization followed this pattern.

A. Philosophical Roots

The seeds were planted decades ago in the universities, where postmodernism taught that truth is merely a construct, that male and female are not biological realities but social roles imposed by power structures. Radical feminism declared war on sexual difference. Marxist theory, having failed to explain economics, reinvented itself as identity politics, dividing the world into oppressor and oppressed based on immutable characteristics, then claiming those characteristics were entirely mutable.

When you reject objective truth, when you reduce all of reality to power dynamics and personal narratives, you open the door to insanity. If male and female are just roles we perform rather than realities we inhabit, then why not change the performance? If biology is just a story told by the patriarchy, why not rewrite it?

B. The Separation of Sex from Reality

The language changed first, as it always does. Sex was no longer observed at birth but assigned. As if the doctor who notes that a baby has male genitalia is imposing something on the child rather than recognizing what is already true. As if the Y chromosome is a social construct.

Then came the parade of euphemisms, each one designed to make the unthinkable acceptable. Gender-affirming care. Chest surgery instead of double mastectomy. Top surgery. Bottom surgery. Medical transition. Every term carefully chosen to mask the violence being done to healthy bodies.

Words matter. When you control the language, you control the debate. And when you've successfully convinced people that noticing biological sex is a form of violence, you've won.

C. From Adult Lifestyle to Child Experiment

For decades, gender ideology was primarily concerned with adults. If a grown man wanted to dress as a woman and demand that society pretend he was female, that was his choice. We could debate whether it was wise or whether society should be forced to participate in the delusion, but at least we were talking about adults who could legally consent to their own folly.

But ideology has an insatiable appetite. It always demands more. The movement that began with "love is love" and "live and let live" quickly became "bake the cake or lose your business" and "affirm my child's trans identity or we'll take them from you."

Children became the new frontier. And why not? If you truly believe that gender identity is more real than biological sex, if you truly believe that a child can be born in the wrong body, then early intervention becomes not just acceptable but morally necessary. Why force a child to go through the wrong puberty? Why not stop their development before their body betrays their true self?

This is how the redefinition of care happened. Love became synonymous with affirmation. Protection became synonymous with facilitation. And parents who once would have guided their confused children toward accepting reality were now expected to fast-track them toward permanent bodily modification.

IV. THE MEDICAL LIE — WHAT IS BEING DONE TO CHILDREN

Let us speak plainly about what happens when a child enters the gender pipeline. Strip away the euphemisms. Look at the reality beneath the rhetoric.

A. Puberty Blockers: Chemical Castration by Another Name

The first step is almost always puberty blockers, drugs originally developed for children experiencing precocious puberty, a serious medical condition where puberty begins far too early. These drugs were approved for short-term use in these specific cases, not for healthy children experiencing normal puberty.

But gender clinics prescribe them off-label, assuring parents that puberty blockers are fully reversible, that they simply pause development to give the child more time to explore their gender identity. This is a lie.

Puberty is not a disease that needs to be stopped. It is the natural process by which a child's body matures into adulthood. Sex hormones during puberty don't just cause secondary sex characteristics like breasts or facial hair. They are essential for bone density, brain development, sexual function, and overall health.

Multiple studies have documented the devastating effect of puberty blockers on bone health. Research from the Tavistock clinic in England showed that after two years on these drugs, a third of children had bone density so low it fell below the threshold of clinical concern. These are children developing osteoporosis before they're old enough to drive.

And bones are just the beginning. We don't know the full effect on brain development because no one has studied it properly. We don't know the long-term impact on fertility, sexual function, or psychological health. The children on puberty blockers are guinea pigs in an experiment without controls, without long-term follow-up, without informed consent.

The claim that puberty blockers are reversible is based on the assumption that if you stop the drugs, natural puberty will resume. But what if you've blocked puberty during the critical window when bone density and brain development should be occurring? What if some changes can never be caught up? And what about the fact that nearly every child who starts puberty blockers goes on to cross-sex hormones? The pause is not a pause. It's the first step on a one-way street toward permanent bodily modification.

B. Cross-Sex Hormones

After puberty blockers come the cross-sex hormones. Testosterone for girls. Estrogen for boys. These cause permanent, irreversible changes. A girl given testosterone will develop a deepened voice that will never return to normal. She'll grow facial hair. Her clitoris will enlarge. Her body will masculinize in ways that cannot be undone even if she later realizes her mistake.

A boy given estrogen will develop breasts. His bone structure will change. His sexual function will be impaired. He will be rendered sterile.

These are not minor side effects. These are catastrophic alterations to healthy, developing bodies. And they're being prescribed to children who cannot possibly understand the full implications of what they're consenting to.

The risks go beyond the visible changes. Cross-sex hormones increase the risk of blood clots, heart disease, stroke, and various cancers. They create lifelong medical patients who will require monitoring and intervention for the rest of their lives.

C. Surgical Mutilation

The final step is surgery. Double mastectomies performed on teenage girls who are told this will relieve their dysphoria and allow them to live as their authentic selves. These girls wake up from anesthesia with their healthy breasts removed, permanent scars across their chests, and nipples that no longer have sensation. They will never be able to breastfeed a child. They will live with the consequences of this decision for the rest of their lives.

And it goes further. Genital surgeries that remove healthy organs, that attempt to construct fake genitalia that will never function properly, that leave young people sexually mutilated and unable to experience normal sexual pleasure or reproduce.

These are not life-saving procedures. They are life-destroying procedures. They are experiments performed on children too young to consent, based on the pseudoscientific belief that you can change sex through medical intervention.

D. The Detransitioners

They are the movement's greatest embarrassment, the evidence that cannot be explained away. Young people who went through the full transition process, who were affirmed at every step, who had the surgeries and took the hormones, and who now stand before the world saying: This was a mistake. I was failed by the adults who should have protected me. I was lied to. I am permanently harmed.

Their testimonies are remarkably similar. Many were young girls with autism, trauma histories, mental health struggles. Many were same-sex attracted and confused about what that meant. Many were just normal teenagers going through the awkwardness of puberty, uncomfortable in their changing bodies, searching for an explanation for their discomfort.

And instead of receiving therapy to work through their issues, instead of being told that discomfort with your body during adolescence is normal, they were fast-tracked toward medical transition. They were told their distress was caused by being in the wrong body. They were promised that transition would solve their problems.

It didn't. The depression remained. The anxiety persisted. The underlying issues that had never been addressed continued to torment them. But now they had destroyed their bodies in the process.

One young woman who detransitioned after having a double mastectomy said she will never be able to breastfeed her future children. She will live with chronic pain and numbness. She mourns the loss of her breasts every day. She was 16 when she had the surgery.

The medical establishment wants to ignore these voices. Detransitioners are branded as liars, as right-wing plants, as anomalies. Their stories are suppressed on social media. Support groups are banned. The message is clear: we cannot allow these people to speak because their very existence calls into question the entire edifice of gender-affirming care.

But they will not be silenced. And their numbers are growing. Studies suggest that many detransitioners never return to the clinics that facilitated their transition, meaning the official regret rates are dramatic underestimates. The real number of young people who will come to regret their medical transition is unknown, but it is certainly far higher than the less than one percent that activists claim.

V. FOLLOW THE MONEY — WHO PROFITS FROM THIS INDUSTRY

When you see a massive social movement that encourages permanent medical intervention, it's worth asking who benefits financially.

A. Pharmaceutical Companies

Puberty blockers are expensive. A year's supply can cost tens of thousands of dollars. Cross-sex hormones require lifelong prescriptions. The pharmaceutical industry has a vested interest in expanding the population of people who believe they need these medications.

And once you start a child on this path, they become a customer for life. They will need hormones forever. They will need regular blood work, monitoring, adjustments to their regimen. Many will develop complications that require additional medications. Some will require repeated surgeries to correct the inevitable problems that arise from trying to make the body something it's not.

This is not medicine. This is the creation of perpetual patients, profitable from childhood through their shortened lifespans.

B. Medical Institutions

Gender clinics have proliferated across the country. Children's hospitals advertise their gender services on billboards. Major medical centers compete for transgender patients.

Why? Because it's profitable. Gender-affirming care generates revenue at every stage. The initial consultations, the mental health evaluations, the prescriptions, the surgeries, the follow-up appointments, the management of complications. Each step generates billing codes, insurance claims, payments.

And there's virtually no liability. Informed consent models mean that patients sign away their right to sue. Even when surgeries go horribly wrong, even when young people are left permanently damaged, the institutions that harmed them face little consequence.

C. Legal and Insurance Systems

Insurance companies have been pressured to cover gender-affirming care, classified as medically necessary treatment. This means the costs are passed on to all policyholders. It means parents who refuse to affirm their child's claimed gender identity can have their insurance used against them, their child's treatment paid for even over their objections.

State laws in some places now prohibit insurance companies from declining coverage for transition-related care. Lawsuits have established precedents protecting doctors who perform these procedures from malpractice claims, arguing that they were following the standard of care.

The system has been carefully constructed to make it as easy as possible for children to access transition services and as difficult as possible to hold anyone accountable when those children are harmed.

VI. THE CLASSROOM AS INCUBATOR — HOW CHILDREN ARE INDOCTRINATED

The confusion doesn't typically begin in a doctor's office. It begins in school.

A. Gender Theory in Public Education

Across the country, school curricula now include gender ideology. Children as young as kindergarten are taught that sex is assigned at birth, that gender is a spectrum, that you might be born in the wrong body. They're encouraged to explore their gender identity, to question whether they might be transgender or non-binary.

Parents are often kept in the dark. Schools in some districts have policies that allow children to socially transition, using different names and pronouns, without parental knowledge or consent. Teachers are instructed to use a child's preferred identity in school while using their legal name and biological sex when communicating with parents.

This is not education. It's indoctrination. And it's deliberate. The goal is to introduce doubt, to plant the seed that biological sex might not matter, to normalize the idea that children can and should question fundamental aspects of their identity.

B. Teachers as Ideological Gatekeepers

Many teachers genuinely believe they're helping children by affirming gender confusion. They've been trained to see any hesitation or questioning as bigotry. They've been told that transgender children are at extreme risk of suicide and that affirmation is literally life-saving.

This is emotional blackmail dressed as compassion. It puts teachers in the impossible position of believing they must choose between a child's mental health and parental authority. And increasingly, they're choosing to side with the child's claimed identity against the parents' judgment.

Stories abound of teachers encouraging social transitions, providing chest binders to girls without parental knowledge, using a child's preferred pronouns in defiance of parental requests. The teacher-student relationship has been weaponized against the family.

C. The Psychological Impact

Adolescence is already a time of confusion, insecurity, and rapid change. Teenage girls especially are vulnerable to social contagion, to identifying with peer groups, to seeking explanations for their discomfort with their changing bodies.

Gender ideology provides a ready-made explanation: if you're uncomfortable, confused, or don't fit in, maybe you're trans. Maybe you're non-binary. Maybe the reason you feel awkward in your body is because it's the wrong body.

Studies have documented rapid onset gender dysphoria, where entire friend groups of teenage girls suddenly identify as transgender together. These are not children who showed signs of gender dysphoria from early childhood. These are previously happy, well-adjusted girls who, exposed to gender ideology and transgender social media influencers, convince themselves they're boys.

Many have autism, anxiety, depression, or histories of trauma. Instead of receiving treatment for these underlying conditions, they're told that transition is the answer. Their mental health struggles are reframed as symptoms of being in the wrong body.

VII. PARENTS PRAISED FOR BETRAYAL

Perhaps nothing is more disturbing than the celebration of parents who facilitate their children's medical transition.

Parents who allow their pubescent daughters to have their breasts removed are featured in glowing media profiles. They're invited to speak on panels, write books, share their wisdom with other parents facing similar situations. They're held up as models of acceptance and love.

But what have these parents actually done? They have participated in the permanent mutilation of their children's bodies. They have enabled an irreversible medical intervention based on the confused feelings of a minor who cannot possibly grasp the long-term implications.

The Bible is clear about parental responsibility. We are to train up our children in the way they should go. We are to protect them, to guide them, to sometimes save them from their own immature judgment. A loving parent doesn't affirm every feeling a child has. A loving parent doesn't allow a child to make life-altering decisions they'll regret.

If your teenage daughter said she wanted to tattoo her face or amputate her arm, you would refuse, no matter how much she insisted it would make her happy. Why? Because you understand that her current desires might not align with her long-term wellbeing, that adolescent brains are not fully developed, that protecting her sometimes means saying no.

Yet when the same daughter says she's a boy and wants her breasts removed, parents are told that refusing is abusive, that affirmation is the only loving response, that any hesitation makes them bigoted and cruel.

This is a monstrous inversion of parental love. These parents are not heroes. They are participants in child abuse, however good their intentions may be. And the culture's celebration of them makes it harder for other parents to resist, harder to stand firm, harder to do what's actually in their children's best interests.

VIII. PAGAN CHILD SACRIFICE REVISITED — THE MOLECH PARALLEL

The ancients had their reasons. When they placed their infants in the burning arms of Molech, they believed they were securing prosperity for their families, favor from the gods, protection for their city. The sacrifice was supposed to purchase something valuable.

The same logic operates today. Parents convince themselves that allowing transition will prevent suicide. That affirming their child's gender identity will lead to happiness. That the sacrifice of normal bodily development, of future fertility, of sexual function is worth it if it means their child will feel comfortable in their skin.

But just as the pagan gods were demons demanding pointless cruelty, the ideology demanding children's bodies is built on lies. The promised benefits don't materialize. Studies show that suicide rates among transgender individuals remain elevated even after transition. The distress doesn't disappear with surgery. The underlying issues are never resolved by changing the body.

The drums have been replaced by the constant drone of social media. The ceremonial robes are now white coats and medical scrubs. The bronze idol has given way to the operating table. But the fundamental pattern remains: sacrifice your children to the ideology, and you'll be praised. Resist, and you'll be cast out as a heretic.

The valley of Hinnom, where ancient Israelites sacrificed their children to Molech, was later called Gehenna, which Jesus used as a term for hell. There could be no clearer statement of what God thinks about child sacrifice. It is an abomination. It is rebellion against the created order. It is the ultimate expression of a society that has lost its way.

IX. THE DEMONIC LOGIC — WHY THIS MOVEMENT IS SPIRITUALLY DARK

There is a spiritual dimension to gender ideology that cannot be ignored. At its core, this movement is characterized by several features that point toward demonic influence.

It hates the body. It teaches that the flesh is disposable, that it can and should be mutilated to match interior desires. This is the exact inversion of Christian anthropology, which sees the body as good, as participating in our dignity, as destined for resurrection.

It hates fertility. The stated goal of many transgender activists is to normalize sterilization, to celebrate the removal of reproductive capacity as liberation. This is a direct assault on God's command to be fruitful and multiply.

It hates the created order. The binary of male and female is written into every cell of our bodies. Gender ideology demands we ignore this reality, that we pretend chromosomes don't matter, that we celebrate the erasure of sexual difference as progress.

It inverts compassion. Real love sometimes requires saying hard truths. Gender ideology teaches that affirmation is the highest form of love, that challenging someone's claimed identity is violence. This makes authentic care impossible.

It targets children. Jesus said that whoever causes one of these little ones to stumble would be better off with a millstone around their neck, cast into the sea. The aggressive recruitment of children into gender ideology, the sexualization of childhood, the celebration of childhood transition—these are features that any serious Christian should recognize as demonic in origin.

Christ came to heal bodies, not destroy them. He restored sight to the blind, made the lame walk, raised the dead. He never said to the sick, "Your body is wrong; let me help you accept your disease." He healed. He made whole. He brought the body into alignment with God's good design.

Gender ideology does the opposite. It tells healthy children their bodies are wrong. It prescribes drugs that prevent normal development. It celebrates surgeons who cut off healthy organs. It is anti-incarnational, anti-human, anti-Christ.

X. THE CHURCH'S FAILURE — WHERE WERE THE SHEPHERDS?

The tragedy is compounded by the silence and complicity of those who should have been the loudest voices of opposition. Where were the bishops when children were being sterilized? Where were the priests when gender ideology infiltrated Catholic schools? Where was the Church?

Too often, the answer is: silent. Confused. Afraid.

Fear of being called bigoted. Fear of losing tax-exempt status. Fear of being on the wrong side of history. Fear of seeming unkind, unloving, backwards. These fears led many Church leaders to soften their language, to speak in generalities about human dignity while avoiding specific condemnation of the procedures being performed on children.

Some went further, allowing or even encouraging gender ideology in Catholic institutions. Schools that taught gender theory. Hospitals that performed transition surgeries. Parishes that held LGBTQ Masses where gender confusion was affirmed rather than addressed.

This is pastoral malpractice. Shepherds who fail to protect the flock from wolves are not compassionate. They are cowards or accomplices.

The Church's teaching is clear. The Vatican has repeatedly condemned gender ideology as contrary to Catholic anthropology, as a rejection of the created order, as harmful to human dignity. Yet this teaching has not been forcefully communicated to the faithful, has not been used to guide policy in Catholic institutions, has not resulted in disciplinary action for Catholic hospitals performing gender transition surgeries.

There have been exceptions. Individual priests, bishops, and laypeople who spoke out at great personal cost. Organizations like the Catholic Medical Association that maintained faithful witness to Church teaching. Parents who fought school boards, faced down social workers, and refused to sacrifice their children to the ideology regardless of the consequences.

But these voices have been too few and too quiet. The Church as an institution largely failed this test. And children paid the price.

XI. WHAT AUTHENTIC CATHOLIC COMPASSION LOOKS LIKE

True compassion is not affirmation of error. It is not standing by while someone destroys themselves. It is not the cowardly path of agreeing with every claim because disagreement is uncomfortable.

Authentic Catholic compassion toward those suffering from gender dysphoria begins with truth. We must be willing to say, gently but firmly, that the body cannot be wrong. That feelings, no matter how intense, are not infallible guides to reality. That suffering is real but the proposed solution is worse than the problem.

It requires patience. Working through the underlying issues that manifest as gender dysphoria takes time. Trauma must be processed. Mental health conditions must be treated. The social contagion must be countered with community and authentic friendship. There are no quick fixes, no surgical solutions that can resolve the inner turmoil of a confused teenager.

It demands courage. Parents who refuse to affirm their child's claimed gender identity will face enormous pressure. They may be reported to child protective services. Their children may be removed from their home. They may lose jobs, friends, reputation. They will be called hateful, abusive, bigoted. And they must stand firm anyway, because love sometimes requires enduring hatred for the sake of protecting those entrusted to our care.

It involves alternatives to the gender-affirmation model. Therapy that explores rather than affirms. Medical care that treats the whole person rather than rushing to prescribe hormones. Communities that offer support without ideology, that make space for confused young people to work through their questions without pressuring them toward transition.

Most importantly, it requires us to recover a Christian understanding of suffering. The modern world tries to eliminate suffering through any means necessary, including mutilating the body. Christianity teaches us to unite our suffering to Christ's, to find meaning in it, to allow it to transform us rather than destroy us. Gender dysphoria is a form of suffering, but like all suffering, it can become redemptive if approached with faith rather than despair.

Love without truth is mere sentimentality. And truth without love is mere cruelty. Authentic compassion holds both together: speaking the truth about God's design for the human person while accompanying those who struggle, meeting them where they are while refusing to abandon them in error.

XII. EPILOGUE — A CALL TO RESIST THE ALTAR

History will judge this generation. When our grandchildren ask what we did during the years when children were being sterilized in the name of compassion, when healthy bodies were being mutilated in the name of affirmation, when the most vulnerable were being sacrificed to ideology, what will we say?

That we stayed silent because we didn't want to seem intolerant? That we went along because everyone else was doing it? That we convinced ourselves it was none of our business, that we should leave these decisions to the experts?

These excuses will not suffice. This is not a political issue that reasonable people can disagree about. This is a moral catastrophe, a mass delusion, a civilization-wide failure to protect its children. And every person who has stayed silent, who has repeated the approved talking points, who has prioritized comfort over truth, bears some responsibility.

The call to resist is not optional for Christians. We cannot stand by while children are harmed. We cannot pretend that affirmation is compassion when it leads to permanent bodily destruction. We cannot allow our institutions to participate in this evil.

Parents must be willing to fight for their children, even against the combined pressure of schools, medical establishment, and social services. Teachers must be willing to refuse to use pronouns that deny reality, even if it costs them their jobs. Doctors must be willing to say no to demands for hormones and surgeries, even if their licenses are threatened. Bishops must be willing to speak clearly about what the Church teaches, even if they're called names. And ordinary Catholics must be willing to speak the truth, support families under attack, and resist the normalization of child sacrifice in our communities.

Christ still calls to the children: "Let the children come to Me, and do not hinder them." He does not add, "but first send them to the gender clinic." He does not say, "unless they claim to be the opposite sex." He invites them as they are, created male and female in the image of God, bodies and souls united in one person, precious and beloved exactly as He made them.

The altar has returned, but we do not have to offer our children to it. We can refuse. We can resist. We can protect. We can speak the truth in love. We can stand between our children and those who would harm them, no matter the cost.

The drums are pounding. The priests are calling for sacrifice. The culture is celebrating those who comply. But we do not serve this false god. We serve the God who created us, who knows us, who calls us by name, who loves us enough to tell us the truth.

Let the children come to Him. Not to the knife. Not to the syringe. Not to the altar of ideology. But to Christ, who makes all things new without destroying what He first created good.

The gender cult demands sacrifice. Christianity offers redemption. The choice before us is clear. May we have the courage to choose rightly, to protect the innocent, to resist the madness, and to hold fast to the truth about the human person that has been revealed to us.

Our children's bodies are not ours to sacrifice. They belong to God. And He is watching what we do with them.

~by Jeff Callaway

Texas Outlaw Poet

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