Gender ideology simply doesn’t work.
According to our culture today, a man can be a woman, and a woman a man, as long as that’s how the person identifies. But self-identification (confusion, really) doesn’t change biology. One can’t change his or her genetics. A man is still a man, and a woman a woman. And this is abundantly obvious when it comes to sports. Trans-identifying boys and men—that means biological boys and men self-identifying as females—keep competing against women and girls and winning their awards, scholarships, and achievements while destroying their privacy and, often times, safety. But we know the Y chromosome gives an athletic advantage to males!
The obvious advantage boys and men (XY chromosomes) have over girls and women (XX chromosomes) is one reason that former Olympian Bruce Jenner, who now goes by Caitlyn and presents himself as a woman, has supported banning males from female sports, despite the fact that he believes he is a woman. This is significant because Jenner helped push the idea of transgenderism in our culture when he appeared in a dress on the cover of Vogue in 2015.
Well, in a recent podcast, Jenner reportedly stated, “Here I am fighting the battle to keep biological men out of women’s sports because it’s not right. . . . I started thinking what a hypocrite I am.”
Why is he a hypocrite? Well, because he received Glamour’s Woman of the Year award back in 2015—yes, a man received a woman of the year award! Over a decade later, he now realizes it was hypocritical of him to take a woman’s award from a woman while arguing men shouldn’t be allowed to steal women’s sports achievements. But despite his recognition of the hypocrisy, he still refuses to recognize that he’s not a woman—which is the root of the problem.
He states, “I’m still XY. Biologically, I’m female. But genetically, I’m still XY. There’s nothing I can do about that.” In other words, he’s still a male—every single cell in his body is male. And, by the way, he’s not “biologically female” because he does not have the genetics to be female (genetics determine biological development, after all!). Rather, he’s had surgery to try to force his body to appear female. That’s not “biologically female,” that’s male.
The reason men can outcompete women in sports and that men shouldn’t win woman of the year awards is because . . . they aren’t women. It doesn’t matter what they wear, what people call them, or how many surgeries they’ve had or hormones they take, a man is a man. That’s biological reality.
What Jenner needs is a worldview that makes sense logically and is in line with reality. And that is found by making the truth of God’s Word the foundation for one’s worldview! In a fallen world, there will be people who struggle with identity, but the answer is not a sinful lifestyle in opposition to truth. The answer is an identity grounded in the truth that every person is made either male or female in the image of God to glorify him: “So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female he created them” (Genesis 1:27).
And God’s Word tells us that in Christ, we can overcome every temptation: “No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man, but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it” (1 Corinthians 10:13).
