gender

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.

Last week, the spokeswoman for a British doula association was forced to resign after reminding her social media followers that people who have wombs are… women. Commenting on a health awareness campaign that encouraged “everyone aged 25-64 with a cervix” to get screened for cancer, the longtime birth coach wrote, “I am not a ‘cervix owner ...’ I am a woman: an adult human female.”

The parents of a 6-year-old Canadian girl have filed a lawsuit against the school board, principal and teacher after their daughter was allegedly taught that “there’s no such thing as girls and boys.”

A Canadian father may have violated his province’s human rights act by asking the age and gender of a potential babysitter, according to legal documents in the case.

Indeed, early Christian writings and texts, all refer to God in feminine terms.