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

Authority: Who has the right to tell me what to do? Knowledge: Who knows what is best for me to do? Trustworthiness: Who loves me and wants what is best for me?

Whatever “we are born with” is to be evaluated by Scripture.

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.

Unable to decode ourselves from the genetics of our physical becoming, we are left to rearrange anatomical aesthetics and coerce ourselves in a direction that runs against nature.”

We live in a Genesis 3 world with a Genesis 1 blueprint on the trajectory to a Revelation 21 future.

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

the effects of the fall are not only around us but within us.

Deciding that the only reasonable course of action is to affirm every feeling about self-identity that someone has is a blind alley that leads to absurdity. Worse, it is dangerous.

It is a little-reported fact that people who undergo sex re-assignment surgery do not, statistically, report higher levels of happiness after the surgery.