For the sake of a small, troubled minority we are going to teach kids that biological facts no longer matter?
If you watched the Olympics these past weeks
you’ve seen many male and female bodies beautifully sculpted by years and years
spent practicing their sport. From swimming to high jump to kayaking, we see
male and female bodies shaped in similar ways by training, but the women are
shorter and less buff than their male counterparts. The men simply swim faster,
jump higher and paddle more powerfully than the women.
For teachers in the Charlotte, NC school district, it must have
been something of a reality check. They spent part of their in-service training
last week being instructed by resources from transgender activists.
By day they were told that sex is “assigned” at birth. As if sex
is something that a delivery nurse arbitrarily or accidentally determines.
By night they watched highlights of every male sprinter lining up
in the blocks with larger shoulders and thicker wrists than their more graceful
female counterparts.
They saw how the constantly DNA-triggered wash of testosterone in
Usaine Bolt’s body enabled him to run for the 100-meter gold in 9.81 seconds
while his Jamaican teammate Elaine Thompson won hers in 10.71.
By day they were told that we call ourselves a man or woman based
on “an internal sense of being male, female, neither of these, both, or
another gender(s).” Based on the cosmic accident of how we feel in the moment,
with no special dignity or purpose to it.
By night they watched male and female Olympians kissing their
babies or holding their babes in arms as they took victory walks on the track.
The XY or YY DNA in every cell in their bodies had genetically determined their
destiny to be fathers or mothers, fulfilling their high calling and purpose to
be fruitful and multiply.
By day the Charlotte teachers were instructed how to help young
students (not boys and girls, but “students” please) fill out a “Gender Unicorn” worksheet that presented
them with multiple gender options:
What is your gender identity?
(female, woman, girl, male, man, boy, other)
What is your gender
expression? (feminine, masculine, other)
What is your sex assigned at
birth? (male, female, other, intersex)
Physically attracted to
(women, men, other)?
Emotionally
attracted to (women, men, other)?
… so many choices.
By night they watched games that were totally binary. And have
been since 1900.
Anomalies, Compassion, and the Created Order
On Saturday they might watch a controversial athlete, Caster Semena, run the women’s 800 meter race.
She is more muscled up and faster than the competition. Her birth certificate
declares she is a female. But she may have elevated levels of testosterone in
her body that give her an unfair advantage over the other women.
We live in a fallen world where genes are fragmented and human
souls are wounded. My DNA triggers my immune system to attack my joints.
Caster’s triggers a surplus of testosterone. Some genes trigger an intersex
genetalia.
But these are anomalies. Binary sexuality is the created order and
the foundation of civilization. When adults try to impose gender unicorns on
children, there is always an agenda: Yes, they want young people with trans
feelings not to feel abnormal. Or get bullied. We all need to show great
compassion for kids who feel this way. But this happily coincides with the
pleasure and comfort of adult sexual preferences at the expense of the health
of children and families.
A sex study released by the CDC this week
revealed that “Nationwide, 88.8% of students identified as heterosexual, 2.0%
identified as gay or lesbian, 6.0% identified as bisexual, and 3.2% were not
sure of their sexual identity.”
For the sake of a small, troubled minority we are going to teach
kids that biological facts no longer matter? Why not rather teach kindness and
forbearance for those whose feelings do not agree with their biology? More than
60% will grow out of it if binary choices continue to be held up as the norm.
Disordered Lives
Professor Robert Lopez, President of the International Children’s
Rights Institute and a self-described bisexual, told The Stream, “It seems that the youths tagged [in
the CDC study] as gay, lesbian and bi have high incidents of many misbehaviors,
like carrying weapons to school, cocaine use, steroids, getting in fights and
starting marijuana before they are 13,” he said in an email interview.
“For instance, gay teens report high rates of being beaten up by
their significant others, of being forced to have sex against their will by
people they are dating — which would imply that in the gay dating pool there
are just a lot more uncharitable behaviors in general. It is simply impossible
that all these outcomes are the result of homophobia.”
God created us male and female with a great and beautiful purpose.
We disrupt his purposes in the face of great danger. We risk inflicting these
risky reported behaviors and the depression that goes with them on larger
numbers of children by intentionally confusing them about sexuality.
There is no scientific evidence to support that intentionally
confusing 89% of heterosexual kids as to their core identity is healthy.
And what damage might the Gender Unicorn inflict on the Olympic
games? Might the teachers of the future go home to watch increasing numbers of
testosterone or estrogen-enhanced trans and intersex “women” deprive biological
women of their place in the games? Maybe there would be enough support for a
special Olympics for those athletes.
If the Gender
Unicorn doesn’t work at the Olympics, why would we bring it into our schools?
There is a much more time-tested wisdom: “God created them male and female. And
God saw everything that he had made, and it was very good.”