What does the Bible say about being Transgender?

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What does the Bible say about being Transgender?

• Is it acceptable to change your gender?
• How do you answer transgender people?

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God Created

• Sexual desire, function fulfillment, Gen. 218,
  25 Heb. 13 4 1 Cor. 73-4
• A new growing vocabulary

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Transgender Vocabulary

• Transgender describes a range of people with
  conflicts or questions about their gender. They
  include people who are born male but think of
  themselves as female, or vice versa, or people
  who are preparing for a sex change operation, or
  those who have had a sex change.
  (The
  Register-Guard, Eugene, OR, May 29, 2005)

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Transgender Vocabulary

• Gender identity It was not until 1955 that
  John Money, Ph.D. first used the term gender to
  discuss sexual roles, adding in 1966 the term
  gender identity while conducting his gender
  research at Johns Hopkins. In 1974, Dr. N.W.
  Fisk provided our now familiar diagnosis of
  Gender Dysphoria. Previously, ones sexual role
  was considered one of two discrete,
  non-overlapping congenital attributes male or
  female

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What are experts saying about gender?

• My review of current research and experience
  with gender dysphoric, gay and traditional
  clients has led me to see gender not as a bimodal
  male or female dichotomy but as a matrix - a
  possible mix of male and female development
  within the same individual. -Carl W. Bushong,
  PhD, LMFT

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What the Bible says about Gender?

• So God created man in his own image, in the image
  of God created he him male and female created he
  them. And God blessed them, and God said unto
  them, Be fruitful, and multiply (Gen. 127-28)
• And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from
  man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the
  man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my
  bones, and flesh of my flesh she shall be
  called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
  (Gen. 222-23)

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Acceptance of TG is Growing

• Recognized as a legitimate diagnosis by medical
  psychological communities
• Government (proposed human rights ordinance in
  Eugene, OR)
• Media is sympathetic (AP report of the trial of
  murder suspects of 17 yr. old Edward Gwen
  Araujo in Hayward, CA)
• Bible is clear (Col. 28 Jno. 724 Lk. 1910)

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Transgender Behavior is Sin

• God created gender, giving male female unique,
  vital distinct identities roles
• Creation of gender, Gen. 127
• Different genders necessary for reproduction,
  Gen. 128
• God blessed gender differences, Gen. 218-22
• Transgender is against nature, Rom. 126-27
  (920-21)

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Why Transgender is Sin

• Consider some effects of TG behavior
• Disregards God-given gender distinctions, cf.
  Deut. 225 1 Cor. 1114-15
• Provides for promotes sin of homosexuality,
  Lev. 1822 2013
• Lack of self-control contentment lustful,
  self-defined choices, Rom. 124
• Dishonors marriage the home as ordained by God,
  Gen. 223-24 Heb. 134 (Eph. 62)

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Defenses to Justify TG Behavior

• People are born that way.
• If so, then God is responsible, Eccl. 115 Zech.
  121
• This line of thinking removes personal
  responsibility for the choices being made (Eccl.
  729 Jas. 113-16)

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Defenses to Justify TG Behavior

• God looks at the heart (1 Sam. 167).
• Say they are really a man (or woman) on the
  inside
• 1 Sam. 167 God sees ones character, motives
  will (not discussing gender)
• God forms the person knows his/her identity
  before birth, Jer. 15

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Defenses to Justify TG Behavior

• We are just accommodating what we already are on
  the inside.
• No, TG behavior accommodates choices made on the
  inside (in ones heart), Prov. 237 31-8
• If God made you a particular sex, shouldnt you
  stay with that, no matter how you feel on the
  inside? -YES-
• Repentance, Eph. 417-24 (Ezek. 1831-32)

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Summary Contrast

• BIBLE
• Gender created assigned at birth
  Gen. 127 1 Cor. 1112

• TRANSGENDER
• Gender distinctions are fluid (a matrix)
  Rom. 120-22

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Summary Contrast

• BIBLE
• Gender identity from birth Gen. 41
  (male)

• TRANSGENDER
• Gender is self-defined feelings, emotion,
  desires, impulses, etc.

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Summary Contrast

• BIBLE
• God knows gender before birth
  Psa. 13913-16

• TRANSGENDER
• God made me this wayI cant help it, its who I
  am!

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Summary Contrast

• BIBLE
• Gender differences are honored and maintained
  Deut. 225 1 Cor. 1114

• TRANSGENDER
• Gender is self-defined Self is honored
  Rom. 125, 28 2 Tim. 32, 4

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Summary Contrast

• BIBLE
• Gender roles are defined by God to be regarded
  by all 1 Cor. 113

• TRANSGENDER
• Gender roles defined by self society (the fruit
  of humanism hedonism)

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Summary Contrast

• BIBLE
• Can change the heart and live a holy life
  1 Pet. 41-3 113-16

• TRANSGENDER
• There is no sin people should satisfy themselves
  1 Cor. 613, 15-20

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God Created Male Female

• Temptations to sin are not insurmountable
• We choose our character conduct the person we
  will be (Jas. 47-10)
• We must uphold the honor distinction of male
  female not pervert it by the lusts, longings
  lewdness of men (Rom. 1311-14)