I have resisted getting caught up in this gender/re-gendering stuff simply because it is so ridiculous, and Solomon warns us to not argue with fools and dwell in foolishness. But as I continue my course of chemotherapy, it has become a personal, even spiritual crusade of mine.
Why?
Because over the past ten years, I have not only fought cancer; I have fought the war of re-gendering, and it is personal. To preface this, hear the Word of the LORD, from His prophet Moses, in the first chapter of Genesis:
26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. 28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Simple and profound, God made us male and female, originally in His image, but we fell into sin, and with that, the imagination of people to sin against God is immense, even now.
What I say now is hopefully simple and profound. While I have fought this horrible disease, I have another fight going on: keeping my masculinity. Some of my medications suppress testosterone, which deprives the cancer the ladder it needs to climb into my limbic system. It also chemically castrates me. You cannot imagine how that affects a man, his thinking, his desires, his energy. So it would be so easy to embrace this loss of the definition of masculinity. It eats away at you. It causes you to question your life and what you are now that you have lost this vital part of your life. Remember you identity in Christ Jesus, and not the siren calls to re-gender yourself.
That is why prayer, Bible study and a vigorous spiritual life amid the loss of energy and desire keeps me going. It is this crucible of suffering that I am reminded that I am a child of God, remade in His image through the work of Christ, Who is still living in and through me. I am a male child of God and His reality is what works in me. I will not succumb to the lie of transgenderism because that is not God's plan. He made us, and not we ourselves. We are His and He defines us, and that does not change.
My prayer is for all those people who have fallen for this lie of re/transgenderism is that they go to His Word to seek their identity. We can, male and female, confess with St. Paul:
Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
God be with you and keep you close to Him in Christ.
Jesus bless you.
