Two Churches Struggling with (Gender) Identity
by David Robertson, theweeflea:
When I want to understand the culture I find that Dundee taxi drivers and hairdressers are usually pretty good barometers. As regards the latter I was speaking to my hairdresser today and she told me about ‘gender reveal’ parties. I had no idea what they were and at first thought they might be a kind of coming out party for transgender people. But no – it’s an American fad where expectant mums who do not know the sex of their baby have a scan taken and then placed inside a cake which will be coloured inside either pink or blue. They then have a party where the highlight is the cutting of the cake and the baby’s gender being revealed.
The poor fools. Don’t they realise that they cannot tell what the baby’s gender will be? A gender is ‘assigned’ to them at birth, and then the baby becomes a child which can decide to self-identify as another gender.
Meanwhile the Free Church of Scotland and the Church of Scotland have both responded to the Scottish government’s proposals to allow people to self-identify as whatever gender they wish – without medical or psychological help and without having to have lived as the gender they wish to be for a couple of years.
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