Our world is at war with God. It is bent on defying His holiness, His commands and even His created order. One of the most destructive ways this war plays out is in the distortion of gender—and women are often the ones who bear the brunt of the consequences.
Our culture demeans women. It devalues their ability to birth and nourish life. It discredits their decisions to choose family roles, and dishonors their specific, gender-endowed abilities. This attack on womanhood has assaulted society’s basic structure of sanity and reason. It has killed common sense and created hostility, disgust, injury, destruction and even death. It has invaded our schools, hospitals, businesses, locker rooms, churches, sports arenas and governments.
Without parents’ knowledge or permission, gender-identity curricula are indoctrinating our students—affirming and even celebrating gender-altering procedures such as surgical mutilation, puberty blockers and damaging hormone therapies, all of which are often irreversible.
On top of all this, so-called transgender women—biological males who have tried to transition to a female identity—have been given unsupervised entrance into girls’ bathrooms, locker rooms and other traditionally female-only areas.
In October 2024, transgender-identifying woman Richard Kenneth Cox, 58, exposed himself to girls in a high school girls’ locker room in Arlington County, Virginia.
In February, 26 female staff nurses employed at the U.K.’s Darlington Memorial Hospital took legal action after being forced to share a changing room with “Rose,” a male colleague who identified as a woman. When the nurses told the human resources department about Rose’s aggressive and threatening intimidation, the department told them to “be more inclusive,” “compromise,” “broaden their mindset” and “get re-educated.”
Women’s athletics have also fallen victim. In case after case, males identifying as transgender women have been allowed to participate in girls’ sports—often with disastrous results. In 2022, Payton McNabb, a female student on the girls’ volleyball team at Hiwassee Dam High School in Murphy, North Carolina, suffered a traumatic brain injury when a female-identifying boy forcefully spiked a ball that hit her in the face.
Today’s gender-destroying trends have put the mere definition of womanhood up for grabs. In March 2022, Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn asked Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, “Can you provide a definition for the word woman?” Jackson, appearing confused, could not. That year, Cambridge University Press redefined woman as “an adult who lives and identifies as female, though they may have been said to have a different sex at birth.”
Followers of Christ shake their heads at such nonsense, citing Genesis 1:27: “In the image of God He created him; male and female He created them,” and Matthew 19:4, where Jesus said: “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female …?’”
God, in His infinite wisdom, created women to reflect His image and nature, designing their physical bodies with the unique ability to conceive, sustain and give birth to new life. Scripture honors mothers like Sarah, Hannah and Mary, praising their selfless and determined efforts to nurture and rear children with tender devotion and godly direction.
But motherhood—particularly the ability to give birth—has been disparaged in our degenerating society. The Biden administration demoted expectant mothers to “birthing people,” and in February, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers downgraded pregnant mothers to “inseminated persons.”
This radical leftist ideology delegates pregnancy and child-rearing as inconvenient chores, while heralding and celebrating abortion as a woman’s right.
On March 12, Chelsea Clinton appeared with two other women on a pro-abortion panel to discuss the topic of “Reproductive Freedom: Good for Workers, Good for Business.” Clinton, daughter of Bill and Hillary Clinton, had previously commented that American women entering the labor force from 1973 (after abortion was legalized) to 2009 added $3.5 trillion to our economy. The panel concluded that women are impeded by birthing and rearing their offspring and that they should, instead, remain in the workforce for the good of society. Clinton claimed that access to abortion “is a matter of society’s economic and fiscal health.”
In the 52 years since Roe v. Wade, more than 63 million unborn children have been aborted in the United States. And since the 2022 Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, abortions have actually increased as abortifacients have become more accessible.
Many Christians now believe, however, that a possible light is shining through the dark war on womanhood. In January, President Donald Trump issued a presidential action titled Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.
The president stated that the policy of the U.S. is “to recognize two sexes, male and female” and clarified that female means “a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell.” He also mandated that federal agencies “ensure that intimate spaces designed for women, girls or females (or for men, boys or males) are designated by sex and not identity.”
God has instilled within His female creation the strength and wisdom of Deborah, the courage and determination of Esther, the faithfulness and perseverance of Ruth, and the entrepreneurial and supportive prowess of Lydia. He has bequeathed to women gifts of faithfulness and devotion to worship and serve Him, and has entrusted them with gifts of love, insight and compassion to serve others.
We must stand strong on God’s Word as we fight the societal pressures and policies that undermine the sacred significance of our moms, daughters, wives, sisters, and nieces. We must protect and honor the God-endowed identity and dignity of women.
