Boys will be boys. Uh, no they won’t. Not if being a boy means you can’t win your gender’s cycling event.
Rachel McKinnon is a two-time Masters Track Cycling World Champion, capturing the 2019 title at the recent competition in Manchester, England, setting a women’s world record in a qualifying event. En route to the victor’s stand, McKinnon defeated every female opponent, an impressive accomplishment if McKinnon was a female like the other competitors. What makes the win significant is McKinnon is a biological man presenting as a woman.
A man beat a woman in an athletic event. In other news, snow is predicted for Minnesota from November to April.
Woke allies laud McKinnon’s bravery to compete on the world stage as a transgender athlete. According to McKinnon and woke devotees, if you do not support trans women dominating biological women in athletic events, you do so out of “irrational fear of trans women.” After the championships concluded, McKinnon tweeted “I have yet to meet a real champion who has a problem with trans women. Real champions want stronger competition. If you win because bigotry got your competition banned…you’re a loser.”
Boys will be boys. Uh, no they won’t. Not if you’re mom wants to ensure that you transition to a girl.
This week a Texas jury confirmed sole custody of a seven-year-old boy to the boy’s mother. Here’s the thing, mom has charged dad with child abuse because dad refuses to affirm his ex-wife’s decision to raise their son James as a girl. To mom and others, James is Luna. His teachers call him by that name. At school, he uses the girls’ restroom. Mom is determined that James transition from male to female, including medical procedures when he reaches puberty.
Jeffery Younger, the dad, has been ordered by the courts to refrain from any attempts to communicate with his son about religion or science related to gender and biology. If dad attempts to stop the transition, he can be found in contempt of court. As an added twist, James has a twin brother, Jude.
Boys will be boys. Uh, not they won’t. Wait, yes, they will if you can put a nine-year-old child on CNN to promote left ideology.
Last week, CNN displayed for the world and the benefit of presidential candidate, Elizabeth Warren, a child. At a “Presidential Town Hall” the candidate and the child’s mother beamed with excitement when Jacob – a fourth-grade girl dressed sharply in a blue suit, white dress shirt, and patterned necktie – identified herself as “a 9-year-old transgender American.” This little girl, with the approval of a United States senator and, worse, the advocacy and support her mother, believes she is a boy trapped in a girl’s body.
Few Saw This Coming
At the turn of the millennium, did anyone anticipate the approval and promotion of what it means to be male or female to come to this? Sure, we’ve debated for decades, maybe centuries or longer, what are the roles of male and female in our world. But look where we are now. Only an ignoramus believes there are two and only two genders determined by biology not by identity.
This is not a minor issue. In my mind this is even more significant for the Christian than same-sex marriage or a host of other moral issues. To embrace gender based on identity is to reject the creator’s design of male or female in every human he brings into existence. I can think of no other rebellion against the creator greater than this.
Thinking about what it means to be male or female, as a Christian you cannot stick your head in the sand. My personal opinion is the political battle and probably the cultural battle are lost. I cannot see a path of reversal. Further, I cannot see a way this does not impact the local church and your family. This rebellion is not just out there. I guarantee it is or will be in your home too.
Our churches, our parents, and our pulpits must know what God has revealed to us in his word about what it means to be human. We must teach God’s Word without apology and with confidence that God will bless the faithful teaching of his Word. We must believe that what God says is right and true and good and that all other teachings are wrong and lies and bad. We must discern the lies of the wicked one and cling to God’s grace when the attacks come with greater intensity and more severe consequences.
The Bible has told us that we cannot be the friend of God and the friend of the world (James 4:4). They are not compatible. The world is telling us if you are on the side of the Bible when it comes to what it means to be human, we will not tolerate you. But God will not abandon us, and he will fight for us. Do not abandon him.
Brothers and sisters, the attacks against God are not going to stop until Jesus returns and puts a stop to them. Therefore, determine that you will “stand firm…with the belt of truth buckled around your waist” (Eph 6:14).
As always I welcome your feedback and any suggestions you might have for an upcoming Lunchtime Musing.
Mike VerWay
Pastor for Preaching & Vision