Healthy identity requires grounding in reality. Increasingly, however, society asks us to affirm identities that contradict biology, ignore physical limits, and disregard observable truth. In both clinical practice and moral reasoning, this presents a direct conflict.

Scripture states plainly:

“Thou shalt not lie.”
Leviticus 19:11

Modern pronoun ideology, however, increasingly asks people to do exactly that—to participate in statements they know are untrue, impossible, or inconsistent with objective reality.

This is where clinical ethics and moral clarity align.

When Self-Identification Breaks From Reality

The prevailing cultural message is simple:
“Whatever someone identifies as must be treated as literal reality.”

So if someone declares:

“Today I identify as a giraffe,”
“Yesterday I was a 7-foot medieval knight,”
“Tomorrow I might identify as an Apache helicopter,”

the expectation is that the rest of the world must adapt:

• language
• responses
• behaviors
• and even institutional policies

We are no longer being asked to show respect.
We are being asked to collaborate with unreality.

“Thou shalt not lie” applies to more than moral character.
It applies to communication, identity, and truth.

The Psychological Burden of Being Asked to Pretend

In clinical terms, unlimited self-identification raises multiple concerns:

• identity instability
• loss of reality-testing
• dissociative patterns
• fantastical or nonhuman identities
• role-based identity used to bypass responsibility
• personal distress when others do not affirm every shift

A functioning society cannot operate on the premise that imagination must override fact.
Nor can mental health professionals affirm every self-concept without evaluating whether it supports stability and functioning.

Truth is not optional simply because someone prefers fantasy.

Why Unlimited Identity Claims Become Clinically Dangerous

When identity is detached from reality, several predictable risks emerge:

1. Confusion Becomes Normal

People, especially children, require stable categories to develop a coherent sense of self.

2. Reality-Testing Is Undermined

If feelings define factual reality, a foundational psychological skill begins to erode.

3. Clinicians Become Silent

If questioning any identity is forbidden, clinicians cannot assess pathology accurately.

4. Systems Collapse

Legal, educational, and medical frameworks depend on objective definitions.
If identity is self-defined without limits, those systems lose functionality.

5. Identity Becomes Performance Instead of Stability

Rapidly changing identities typically reflect internal struggle—not empowerment.

“Thou shalt not lie” is not just a spiritual command.
It is a psychological safeguard.

When people are taught to affirm what they know is false, they experience cognitive dissonance, moral conflict, and stress.
When society enforces this falsehood, confusion becomes policy.

Compassion Requires Truth

True compassion does not demand we lie.
It demands we remain honest while still treating people with dignity.

We can:

• respect individuals
• recognize their humanity
• support their emotional needs
• and maintain clear, reality-based communication

without affirming fictional or impossible identities.

Clinical integrity, and spiritual integrity, both require the same foundation:

Truth spoken with respect.

When identity drifts into fantasy, or changes daily, or demands others participate in contradictions, it is not cruel to acknowledge reality.
It is necessary.

Truth creates stability.
Lies create confusion.
And a society built on confusion cannot remain healthy.

Views reflect personal clinical philosophy; client care follows evidence-based, individualized assessment.