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A federal judge handed parental rights groups a major victory in California Thursday, blocking enforcement of a local school district policy that prevents teachers from telling parents if their child begins identifying under a different gender.

An Idaho high school senior was reportedly banned from walking at his graduation last Saturday due to comments he made about gender during an assembly.

The parents of a seventh-grader in Massachusetts who was removed from school for wearing a T-shirt declaring “there are only two genders” is suing the school district, saying the student’s constitutional rights were violated.

One of the world’s largest Christian bodies will study the use of gender-neutral terms to refer to God when a commission takes up the issue, according to a new report.

Would the ability to have children mean that a man could actually become a woman? Setting aside for a moment the awful potential for exploitation of children involved, if science could graft the reproductive system of a female into a male body, and it could function with drugs and hormones, does that make him a woman? A mother?

It is not uncommon in mainstream opinion writing for an author to make an absurd claim and spend several paragraphs of mental gymnastics justifying it. A more accurate label for this genre would be “ideological writing.” If the facts don’t fit, twist and turn them and pretend they do.

Our experience tells us that language matters, especially descriptive language that someone uses to define oneself.

On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to consider the constitutionality of the male-only draft in a case that could force young women to register for the draft and be sent to war.

John Staddon, an emeritus professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke University, has been removed from an American Psychological Association email discussion group after he posted a question suggesting that there are only two sexes.

Despite an unfortunately common mis-reputation, both within the Church and without, Christianity doesn’t teach that human bodies are evils to be controlled in order to avoid sin. Rather, it teaches that our physical bodies are part of who we are as made in the image of God. As part of the created order, then, our bodies are a type of natural revelation, designed by God to reveal Himself.