Last week, in a town hall discussion, the current frontrunner in the election for the presidency of the United States said, in absolute terms, that an eight-year-old boy should be allowed to identify as a girl, and the law and society should treat him as such. No one is laughing anymore.
During his town hall on Thursday, Joe Biden said that, if elected, he would change the law to give children the right to transition their gender.
A Christian animator was recently called out after she refused to draw a transgender flag.
World Rugby was evaluating the idea of letting trangender girls and women compete against biological girls and women in sports. In considering the idea, it appears that World Rugby has decided that trans athletes are at an advantage because of their biological build and will therefore not be permitted to participate in athletic compeitions for genders opposite of thier bological gender.
On Monday, a Wisconsin court blocked a local school district's policy that allows students to socially transition to another gender identity at school without their parents or gardians being notified or reached out to for consent.
California Governor Gavin Newsome recently approved two laws benefiting the transgender community. The first law, allows transgender criminals to choose their gender identity when the are put in the prison system. The second law, earmarks taxpayer funded grants for hospitals to perform hormone treatments and transgender surgeries of patients.
If passed, a bill recently introduced in the Senate will defund schools that allow biological males who identify as female to participate in girls' sports.
On Wednesday, two Idaho State University female athletes filed an appeal in defense of an Idaho state law that prevents biological males who identify as female from competing in girls’ or women’s sports.
On Monday, the Department of Education issued a letter to the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference insisting that an LGBT rights case from June does not change the department’s position that schools are violating Title IX by allowing transgender girls to compete on girls’ teams.
It would have been far easier and safer for the apostles to bow to the Sanhedrin in the book of Acts, but they risked their lives to say, “We must obey God rather than men” (Acts 5:29). Pray now for the courage to “stand firm in the faith” (1 Corinthians 16:13), then determine that you will declare and defend biblical truth at any cost (1 Peter 3:15).
