“The words ‘mother’ and ‘father’ will be removed from U.S. passport applications and replaced with gender neutral terminology. The words in the old form were ‘mother’ and ‘father,’ They are now ‘parent one’ and ‘parent two.’ …These improvements are being made to provide a gender neutral description of a child’s parents and in recognition of different types of families.”
–Brenda Sprague, deputy assistant to the Secretary of State for Passport Services, the United States State Department, January 07, 2011.
“If there had been a way to save the man, that would have been better.”
–Dr. Rene Richards (born Richard Raskind), years after a sex-change operation in 1979.
It may be hard to remember what it was like in September, 2015, when trans was relatively new to most people. The Supreme Court had just, less than 3 months before, declared same-sex marriage to be legal. Trans was not widespread and not at all on peoples’ minds.
In this sermon on Deuteronomy 22:5, I was introducing the phenomena to a country church. To our ears, going over the terms used to describe it may seem quaint, since now some of the words are ubiquitous, and other have gone out of style. But back then, when I said that this seeming impossible phenomena was actually going to increase, it was hard to believe.
The topic requires definitions. So, in the message I offer a Biblical definition of what a man is, what a woman is. The times have changed, but the definitions haven’t. God still has answers for us where the culture doesn’t.
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