Can People Decide Their Own Gender?

Recently, where I live, a male middle school student self-identified as a girl and wore a dress to school. The school sent him home to change. But when his family issued a complaint to the administration and school board, efforts were initiated to accommodate gender confused students. This is happening by means of the school system looking at implementing “gender inclusive” policies and retraining school administrators. In addition to dress codes, the matters being looked at include allowing students to use the bathroom they feel fits their gender identity (irrespective of actual gender), as well as participation on athletic teams and the use of the shower and locker rooms of their choice.

Honestly, what should be a very common sense response to this matter has turned into what can only be described as a circus. People are living life and making policy based on fantasy beliefs. What is real is being promoted as not real and what is not real is being regarded as real. It is obvious that this student has a mental disorder based on not being able to connect his mind with his actual physical existence. It is, in many ways, no different than people who have an eating disorder based on the illusion that they are fat – even though they are not. What is even worse, though, is that school administrators seem to have the same disorder by also not being able to recognize what is real and not real.

The idea that gender can be fluid emerges out of a naturalistic worldview concept. In some ways this is a bit strange as Naturalism asserts that the natural world is all that exists. As such, it claims that science is able to account for everything in existence. Since physical science is such a prominent part of naturalistic belief, you would think that Naturalists would promote beliefs which connect a person’s genetics with their identity perception.

The rub comes, though, in how they project their beliefs in the moral arena. For them, since they believe that there is no such thing as an objectively real universal moral code (as there is no objectively real moral code giver), moral beliefs can be whatever society (or individuals) want them to be. The entire understanding of morality is based on relativism. With that as a starting place, they simply assert that people’s actual biological identity can be ignored to allow them to act in accordance with how they feel.

But the hard truth is, God does exist and he created human beings to be a certain way. This includes not only a biological component, but a spiritual one as well. People’s gender is objectively hard wired into their bodies. But there is also an objectively real spiritual element. When a person tries to live life in opposition to the way they actually exist, they are kicking against an objectively real expression of reality.

A male is a male physically and spiritually. A female is female physically and spiritually. Those who are internally confused about their gender identity have a mental disorder that needs to be addressed. Along with that, those who advocate for an environment where this kind of disorder is accepted by society are doing harm to the people who have the disorder, along with the vast majority who have to somehow protect themselves in that hostile environment. These advocates are also demonstrating their own inability to recognize objective reality.