The Christian Response to Gender Dysphoria
By Andrew T Walker, The Gospel Coalition:
The latest issue of Time magazine features an essay by Jessi Hempel telling the story of her brother, Evan, giving birth to a son.
That opening sentence might catch you off guard, especially since human biology does not allow for biological men to give birth. Such an idea is common knowledge, but in our own day the claim that only women are able to give birth needs to be reasserted. The photo the story features is designed to elicit attention, as it shows what looks like a man breastfeeding an infant son. But the story’s title—“My Brother’s Pregnancy and the Making of a New American Family”—is designed to document the brave new frontier transgender individuals are promising to bring to America, a frontier that requires accepting the supposed reality that men can give birth.
Hempel tells the heart-wrenching story of her brother who had undergone a female-to-male transition at 19, but who still desired to give birth—and did so at 35 […] Hempel goes on to ask a question that helpfully frames how Christians should begin thinking about the transgender revolution: “What if you are born into a female body, know you are a man, and still want to participate in the traditionally exclusive rite of womanhood? What kind of man are you then?”
Editor’s note: It would be better to entitle this article “A Christian pastoral response”. It is concerned with compassion towards an individual, and re-affirms the Bible’s teaching about the distinctiveness of male and female However it does not explain the origins of ‘gender dysphoria’. This phenomenon cannot be seen merely as a misguided but real set of feelings affecting individuals and requiring compassion from Christians. It must be recognised as a wrong way of thinking, which derives from a relentless propaganda assault in our culture, requiring opposition from Christians, and the explanation of a better vision for humanity.
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