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 A few months ago, there was a news report about the Irving Middle School in Lincoln, Nebraska, and their decision to not refer to their students as “boys” and “girls”, but rather in “non-gender” terms. Specifically, a training document was distributed to the faculty discouraging them from identifying their students according to gender. Instead, they were to use “gender inclusive terms” when referring to the students. This includes calling their younger students such things as “purple penguins” so as to avoid calling them “boys and girls.” The training document also spoke negatively of the “binary terms” of “boy” and “girl” or “male” and “female”, and suggested that gender is actually a “spectrum”. Included in this “spectrum” are: “neither”, “two-spirit”, “androgynous”, “gender-neutral” and others.

    In more recent times, it has been reported that the social media website, Facebook, now gives its subscribers 59 options for a user’s “gender”! In Kentucky, our legislature took up valuable time recently to discuss whether or not certain boys can use the girls’ bathroom in public schools, and vice versa.  “Political correctness” has run amok!

    Though man suggests gender is a “spectrum,” God does not. The distinction between genders is what God established at the beginning (Gen. 1:26-28). God made Adam, a male (Gen. 2:7; I Tim. 2:13), and then created Eve, a female, as his companion (Gen. 2:18-24; I Tim. 2:13). From this union has sprung all future generations of boys and girls, who then became men and women (Gen. 5:4, 7, 10, 13, 19, 22, 26, 30; etc.), and the cycle continues today. Male and female is a beautiful distinction that God established.

    Why this push for “gender inclusion” and the like? Could I suggest such indoctrination is an out-growth of the evolutionary theory. Speaking of God’s creation as “neither,” “two-spirit,” and the like is to say that we are not created beings. Such an attitude is very much like the people who are described in Romans 1:28. Just as the theory of evolution strikes at the heart of Bible inspiration and of the existence of God Himself, so also does playing havoc with God’s creation by using “gender inclusive terms.” This is a strike against God who made His creation male and female! Friend, God made us, and He created the DNA, the genes, and all aspects of us. People who have the “XY” chromosome are male, and those who have the “XX” chromosome are female. Think about it, even among the plant and animal life there is such a thing as “male” and “female.” We recognize this in other parts of God’s creation. Why are we trying to take it away in God’s humans?

    God’s order of male and female cannot be denied (Gen. 1:26-28). Instead of fighting against God and His order in this world, let us learn from the book of God about His plan for saving all His creation (male and female) from sin (Mk. 16:16). Obey His word, and be a blessed people for doing so!

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