I used to feel like a girl trapped in a boy’s body. But now I know God created me male

Nov 3, 2022 by Andrew Symes

By Andrew Bunt, Premier Christianity:

[…] my sense that I was a girl trapped in a boy’s body faded away during adolescence, although it still took a long time for me to feel fully comfortable as a man. In the end, it was the Bible that helped me understand that being a man is an identity given by God. I don’t have to be like other men or feel a certain way to be a man. And I don’t need to decide who I am. I receive my identity as man from God, through my body. It’s a wonderfully freeing and life-giving truth.

The recent release of new proposals for NHS services caring for children and young people experiencing gender dysphoria has caused me to reflect again on my own experience. The proposals are a response to the ongoing Cass Review. They outline plans for an interim service that will replace the current Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) when it closes early next year. The specification proposes significant changes in the approach to helping gender-questioning young people. I think it reveals some of the problems with the identity narrative many young people have been told. And in so doing, it reminds us how good it is that God decides who we really are.

Many children may find their feelings are a “transient phase” – as they were for me and so many others, such as Libby. Perhaps this points us to a better way of finding out who we truly are. Our physical bodies are a gift to us from a loving creator, who is the only sure foundation for a truly stable, safe, life-giving identity. If we want to know who we are, we don’t need to look inside, we need to look up. It’s God who gives us our best identity.

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