(For Part 1, read “Transgender Ideology is Inherently Destructive“)
Transgender ideology is a false belief system that sets itself against reason, science and biblical truth.
It is an ideology that insists, when it comes to human identity as either male or female, that biological reality doesn’t matter – only subjective, internal thoughts and feelings do. Transgender dogma says that drugs, hormones and surgeries can turn a boy into a girl, or a girl into a boy.
These beliefs are all demonstrably false, and the lies from this ideology have caused innumerable harms.
Transgender ideology is at war with reality – who we are as humans, who God made us to be and how the world actually works. Those who believe in this dogma have worked hard to spread this teaching and force agreement with it.
The first article in this series explored some of the harms from imposing the lies of transgenderism, including damage to families, a nationwide assault on parents’ rights, and the destruction of children’s bodies, souls and minds.
But there are even more negative consequences from this insidious belief system.
Transgender ideology harms girls and women’s sports. Despite lies from transgender activists and their allies, everyone knows that males and females are physiologically different, with testosterone giving males competitive advantages in sports.
Men’s bodies are different from women’s. This means that men, in general, can out-compete women. That’s why we’ve always had separate sports categories for men and women. Even if a man believes he’s a woman, he competes in sports with his male body. Women have been injured by men playing their sport, and men who do so steal opportunities, titles, records and victories from women.
Transgender ideology leads to the invasion of privacy for girls and women (and boys and men, too). As the homosexual and transgender movements gained political and social power, states changed nondiscrimination laws to include “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” (SOGI), and sometimes “gender expression.”
Courts and federal agencies followed suit, redefining “sex” – being male or female – to include homosexuality and transgenderism.
Those SOGI ordinances often included public accommodations, such as restrooms, showers, locker rooms and changing rooms. Opening those sex-segregated spaces to boys and men who claim to be female harms girls and women.
Men are allowed to invade women’s private spaces because sex – being male or female – is redefined by a false ideology.
Transgender ideology has brought attacks on free speech and religious freedom. Because states added “gender identity” and “gender expression” to nondiscrimination laws, basic rights are threatened. When the Supreme Court redefined sex to include homosexuality and transgenderism, employers lost their religious freedom.
Teachers are told they must use a student’s “chosen name and pronouns,” violating free speech laws. Some have lost jobs over this, leading to lengthy and expensive lawsuits. Individuals have lost jobs for speaking out against – or simply questioning – transgender dogma.
The Biden administration even unveiled a plan to advance LGBT issues in the U.S. and around the world. The proposal called for the elimination of “broad religious exemptions” for individuals and organizations who disagree with LGBT ideology. The plan said this was a “misuse” of religious liberty, and opponents of religious freedom call these exemptions a “license to discriminate.”
Christians and faith-based organizations have been forced to spend huge amounts of time, money and energy to fight for free speech and religious freedom in the wake of the LGBT juggernaut.
Transgender ideology has led to violence against girls and women. As states allowed men who claim to be women into women’s sports, restrooms, locker rooms, homeless shelters and prisons, violence from those men has increased.
In sports, male athletes have inflicted severe injuries on women athletes. Transgender-identified males have spied on, filmed and assaulted women in restrooms and changing rooms.
Because of transgender ideology, California opened women’s prisons to men claiming to be women in 2021 – all based on the false idea that “trans women are women.” This led to hundreds of male offenders transferring from male to female prisons.
Men housed in women’s prisons have preyed on women, harassing, intimidating, sexually assaulting and physically attacking them.
Transgender ideology denies the scientific and biblical truth that there are two types of humans, male or female, and individuals are either one or the other. No medical interventions or internal, subjective identity can transform a man into a woman – or vice versa. Nor are there an infinitude of “genders,” as transgender dogma proclaims.
As Christians, we must stand for truth. Lies are destructive, and false transgender ideology has led to great destruction in our world.
As Christians, too, we are called to love others and point them toward God’s deep love, forgiveness and healing. This includes those struggling with sexual identity confusion and those caught in the lies of transgender ideology.
It’s not always easy, but we must do both at the same time – love people while standing firmly for the truth.
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