Bruce Jenner can change his name to Caitlyn, Darla Mae, Lulabell, or Suzanne. He can have enough hormone replacement therapy to make Dolly Parton envious of his upper torso. He can wear lipstick, high heels and a frilly pinafore. He will still be a male member of the human species. He can cut off body parts and throw them in the waste basket. He can grow his hair until it reaches down to the street. Biologically he will still be a man. His chromosomes and body cells will remain unchanged. He will never have to worry about uterine cancer or wonder if his non-existent womb will ever accommodate triplets. Bruce Jenner was never a female trapped in a male’s body. He was born a male and he will die a male, perhaps missing a few body parts, but still as much a male as the war hero who returns home missing a few body parts, too.
The transgender suicide rate is 40% while across the board the suicide rate among Americans as a whole is but 4%. The confused and deluded dude who thinks he’s a girl and the equally messed up girl who thinks she is a guy will find that life is a harsh teacher. Somewhere down the road of life many of them conclude, “Oh, that was a bad idea.” And they become so depressed and delusional they commit suicide.
There is a genetic component to gender that cannot be changed. It is biologically impossible for a man to transition into a woman and vice versa. If a transgender couple marries and have children, the one that bears the child will always and ever be the one who was born with female reproductive organs. A transgender person is NOT the sex they claim to be. They can assume the appearance of the opposite sex, dress like the opposite sex, walk, talk and act like the opposite sex, but they will NEVER, NEVER be the opposite sex.
The transgender person says, “I am not a cross dresser. I am transgender.” That is as meaningless and as idiotic as my saying I am not a human being. I am an alien from a distant planet. I definitely am not an alien from some other planet and to insist I am reveals that I am either delusional or mentally ill.
“So, God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them” (See Genesis 1:27). It took thousands and thousands of years for rebellious, satanically deceived men to ever even entertain the idea that man could tinker with God’s creation and change a male into a female and vice versa. And how pathetic is their attempt. “Be not deceived; God is not mocked, for whatsoever a man sows that shall he also reap, for he that sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption….” (See Galatians 6:7-8). Try to change what God has done, friend, and you will pay in spades for your folly. And, God have mercy on you should you make such a futile attempt.
There are not three genders. There are but two. For a male to say he is actually a female, or for a female to say she is actually a male is as delusional as a human saying they are an alien being from outer space. If someone insists they are an alien being, not really human, we know they are either delusional or mentally ill. Biological testing will easily prove that such a person is not an alien being but human to the core. Likewise, biological testing will prove that the man, who says he is a woman, is actually and fully and truly a male member of the human species.
Genetic testing, also known as DNA testing, will easily prove that a male is just that, a male, and a female is biologically and truly a female. The male’s bodily fluid will evidence both an “X” and a “Y” chromosome in each cell, while a female will have a duplicate (XX) chromosome in each cell. Only females have two of the same kind of sex chromosomes.
A male member of the human species may find other males attractive and a female member of the human species may find other females attractive. This, in and of itself, is not sinful though one might say it is not normal, for the norm is a male to be attracted sexually to the female. A husband may find other women attractive, but this, in and of itself, is not sinful. Only if the husband expresses his desires toward another woman overtly or physically has he sinned. The same would hold true, of course, for the wife.
But when a male insists they are actually a female trapped in a male body, though that belief might not be sinful, it is utterly a delusion of the greatest magnitude. If someone insists they are actually an alien being from Mars or some other planet, no one in their right mind takes them seriously but realizes the person making such an assertion is not in their right mind.
The Bible does not address the transgender issue for the same reason the Bible does not address the “I’m a Martian” issue. The Bible ignores the nonexistent and impossible. Although the Bible speaks of eunuchs, castrated men, it nowhere speaks of anything that could remotely be considered transgender. It states flatly and categorically at the very outset in Genesis Chapter One that God made humans male and female (PERIOD). If one is born a male, that is what they are a male. If one is born a female, that is what they are and ever shall be, a female. A male can no more become a female than a human can become an alien from the planet Jupiter. I’m not mixing apples and oranges here. That is what the delusional transgender does.
Gender dysphoria, or gender identity disorder, is a diagnosis of comparatively recent origin. Historically human beings were not plagued with this disorder. A man who insisted he was a female a couple of hundred years ago would probably have been locked up in a mental institution or burnt at the stake. Thankfully we are past that, but now many societies, not all, have swung in the opposite direction and have accepted the transgender delusion as both normal and acceptable.
When a male insists that he be referred to by the use of female pronouns such as she or her, that person is demanding that you participate in and encourage their delusion. That person has a choice to use whatever pronouns they wish when referring to themselves. They do not have the right or privilege to insist that I do the same, especially when it is contrary to my conscience and moral beliefs.
If you longed desperately to be and become a hundred years old, what would prevent you from doing so? I mean if you wanted to join that group of Americans that have reached their hundredth year of life, why couldn’t you? Let’s say you are twenty years old right now. What’s to stop you from being a hundred years old? Eighty years – that’s what. It is impossible for a twenty year old person to identify as and be a hundred year old individual without living an additional eighty years. Likewise, it is impossible for a male to be or become a female or vice versa. A cat can’t become a dog, nor can a boy become a girl. It’s that simple. Nothing complex about it. It just cannot be done. No one can magically change into something they are not. A man can pretend to be a woman, can masquerade as a woman, can use cosmetics, clothing, and affect the mannerisms of a woman, but, alas, that man is not a woman and never can be a woman.
Many of my own generation remember a man named George Jorgensen, one of the first people in the history of humanity who had sex reassignment surgery and supposedly became a woman, changing his name to Christine Jorgensen. He never bore a child. His chromosomes never were changed from that of a male. Had he left his DNA on some object and investigators not knowing George Jorgensen, or Christine Jorgensen, had left the DNA, upon laboratory testing they would have concluded that a man, not a woman, left their DNA on the object. Cutting off body parts, having plastic surgery on the genitalia, and injecting one’s self with various hormonal treatments does not change one’s sex. It produces a human oddity, some would even say a freak. That’s all it could do.
Referencing a man as “her” or “she” does not make that man a woman. One might say you are rude for not calling that man “he” or “she” if that is what they desire, still he is still a he and will remain so for the remainder of his life.
I sympathize with those who claim to be transgender. Their lives, for the most part, must be quite depressing. I feel for such. Their fellowship with their Creator must be tenuous at best if not totally non-existent, and that is tragic in the extreme.
Christ’s Faithful Servant (Galatians 1:10-12),
Donald Wiley