God and the Transgender Debate: What does the Bible actually say about gender identity?

Empathy is the prerequisite for speaking meaningfully and authoritatively into someone’s life.

We all coerce ourselves in a direction that runs against nature each time we seek to sit on God’s throne.

Maleness and femaleness, according to the Bible, aren’t artificial categories. The differences between men and women reflect the creative intention of being made in God’s image.

Puberty almost always enables children who feel some sense of gender dysphoria to grow, we might say, into their biological sex.

We can grasp at being men instead of women—or genderless humans instead of gendered humans—but God does not allow it.

What God does, people should not seek to undo.

In truth, there is no such thing as “transgender,” because you cannot change your gender. The word exists, but not the reality that it seeks to describe.

that men and women are different makes absolutely no difference to the worth, dignity, and respect each deserve. God made men and women different in function, and equal in worth.

For the Christian, joy is eternal and hardship has an expiration date.