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Every Body Has Authority

By Kamal Weerakoon The biological basis of binary sex should not be contentious. Our bodies demonstrate certain consistent patterns. Science carefully examines and exhaustively documents those patterns. And those patterns demonstrate that there are only two sexes. But this begs the question of what authority our embodied biology has over our understanding of our self, and following on from that, what authority our biological constitution has to guide our way of life. Biology may indeed be binary. But - so what? What right does binary biology have to 'identify' me – to authoritatively tell me something about my self and how I should present and relate to others? Christianity’s doctrine of creation gives Christians good reasons to recognise the authority of embodied biology. God’s creation of humanity as male and female ( Gen 1:26-28 ) is consistent with the binary nature of other animals ( Gen 6:19-20 ) and is an aspect of the goodness – the overall integrated wholesome...

But what about intersex people?

By Patricia Weerakoon As Kamal said in a previous post , “[t]he biological basis of binary sex should not be contentious” because our embodied biology “demonstrate[s] that there are only two sexes.” But that invariably raises the question “what about people who are intersex?” Transgender ideology trains people to believe that the “I” in the LGBTQI acronym is evidence against binary sexuality. The brief answer is: no, it’s not. I prefer the term ‘disorders of sex development’ (some use the term differences in sex development) because it better represents what happens to people’s bodies and is therefore less confusing. There are two reasons why intersex isn’t evidence against binary gender, one scientific, the other to do with a proper description of people’s experiences. The scientific understanding of male and female The well-established, scientifically verified definition of man and woman is based on a person’s body structure – in particular, the pu...

What is a woman? Or a man? It’s all in your genes

By Patricia Weerakoon The Bible says God created humanity male and female. But the Bible doesn’t give us detailed information about how our bodies develop as either male or female. God did however give us the ability to carefully analyse the world and discover the processes whereby our sex development takes place. In terms of Christian theology, this ability to understand the world fits into the broad category of what the Bible calls ‘wisdom.’ King Solomon, the figurehead of Old Testament wisdom, analysed the world: he “spoke about plant life … animals and birds, reptiles and fish” (1 Kings 4:33). In God’s kindness to humanity, discovering these processes does not require religious faith – Christian or any other. All it requires is the humility to pay attention to the external objective realities of the world. That’s what science does. ‘Religious’ people interpret those realities as being established by God. Atheists don’t. But both accept the authority of t...

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