From the chapter “Responding to the Transgender Revolution” in my book (Dis)Ordered: Lies about Human Nature and the Truth That Sets Us Free (CPH 2023):

“A theologian of glory calls evil good and good evil. A theologian of the cross calls the thing what it actually is.” Never in the history of the world have we more needed brave people to call things what they actually are. A social contagion has spread through the West, causing children to mutilate their bodies and receive hormone treatments with drastic consequences….

The transgender movement … involves the final overthrow of biological reality. It claims that you are not what your chromosomes or sexual organs say you are. You are whatever you feel you are….

When meaning is defined by feelings, childhood is extended indefinitely, and everything is sexualized, confusion over identity is inevitable. This problem is exacerbated by human existence being reduced to gender and sexuality by the sexual revolutionaries. Since this is a matter of will and not body, the transgender revolution is the final triumph of the Gnostic conception of reality, which subordinates the body to the soul and renders the material world something from which we must be liberated. Once one accepts the premise that a biological male can be a woman born into the wrong (i.e., male) body, then it follows that the body is a prison. A person’s true identity is entirely disconnected from creation….

Always with love, God calls Christians to call things what they really are. Men are men, women are women, and these are immutable truths. Jesus is the truth (John 14:6). If what He says is not true, then nothing is. The Nicene Creed confesses about Him, et homo factus est: “And He was made man.” The incarnation of the Son of God is for the healing of the human race. He heals every dysphoria, and His redemption is for every tribe, tongue, people, and nation.

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The T in LGBTQIA+ has overwhelmed all the other letters. The T, of course, is for transgender. Transgenderism rejects biological reality, the givenness of creation. There is also another T, another trans, that is somewhat less known: Transhumanism. Transhumanism, at the risk of oversimplifying, proposes joining technology to humans for the purpose of enhancing and lengthening life. For many, this includes a goal of achieving immortality.

Both of these contemporary trans movements seek to address real human problems: dysphoria, discomfort, disability, dissolution, death. There is something wrong with us. There is something wrong with the world. A trans movement seeks to change the problem. That’s what trans means: change. It can also mean cross, like to cross a barrier or a distance. Hence, transportation. Or, transformation.

These contemporary trans movements, like others that have come before (such as Transcendentalism), are all doomed to fail, because they have the wrong starting point….

Responding to the Transgender Revolution: Brave Men Needed

The Resurrection of Our Lord 2022