Let me be up front about this: I believe in creation, in
design, in intent.
Your gender is not an accident. There’s something sacred about it. “Male and female created he them,” Genesis
says. “In the image of God.”
God created you to be you.
He knit you together in your mother’s womb, Psalm 139 says. That design includes your eye color, your
height, and your hair texture, and lots more that you didn't choose. And your
gender.
For someone born with normal body, brain, and and chromosomes, to
attempt to change this essential part of yourself seems to me to
be rejecting a precious gift and to take control of a part of your soul
that isn’t yours to alter.
Here’s the first area where the feminists and I part
ways. According to Wikipedia, “At the
core of these theories [feminism/women’s studies] is the notion that however
one identifies, gender, sex, and sexuality are not intrinsic, but are socially
constructed.”
And that, as I said, is one way we differ.
In our women’s Sunday school class, we’ve been studying the
women of the Bible, which got me thinking along these lines. It’s a fascinating study.
I also recommend Elisabeth Elliot’s Let Me Be a Woman, and
Rick Rhodes’s Created with Purpose.
Next time: Another reason I’m not a feminist.
Note: Dear Anonymous commenter: Obviously I am not an expert on transgender or dysphoria issues. The operative words here are "seems to me." I am not advocating violence for anyone who disagrees. You can email me at letterfromhburg@juno.com.
Note: Dear Anonymous commenter: Obviously I am not an expert on transgender or dysphoria issues. The operative words here are "seems to me." I am not advocating violence for anyone who disagrees. You can email me at letterfromhburg@juno.com.