With all the controversy
that has been sparked by the sex transformation of the well known athlete,
Bruce Jenner, here are some of my own thoughts. One of the first questions
would be, is it a sin? Well, let’s look at it from the beginning; he was
created as a man by God, God doesn’t make mistakes, humans do. So His creations
are perfect the way they are in God’s eyes, no improvement needed. So do we as
humans have the right to mess with his design? Aren’t we showing disrespect to
Him by trying to change what He has created?
He has given us the
knowledge and skills to use in correcting birth defects and other health
problems, along with repairing the damage we do to ourselves, but we carry it a
bit too far. We think we can improve things by reconstructing them to fit our
own perverse desires. To me this seems like we are trying to steal His glory.
I don’t believe it when
people say stuff like “I always knew I was a girl in a boy’s body or a boy in a
girl’s body.” It just isn’t true; the only thing that is wrong with our bodies
is our own depraved desires. If you think about it logically, people who undergo
a sex change or gender change are only altering their outside appearance; they
can never really be transformed totally from the inside out. So people like
Jenner, will never be a real woman or a real man. Where are the female organs,
ovaries and uterus? Where are the male organs, prostate and testicles? Even if
there’s a way to add a vagina or penis, they will not function as if they were
natural, so all of the money, time and pain can never truly fulfill their
dream!
From the “fall of mankind”
we have set about to go against creation. We think we know what is best for us,
when actually that doesn’t play into the scenario at all! We are just trying to
fill a void in our lives, a void that should be filled by God! As His main
creation we have never liked being told what to do or how to live, that’s just
our nature. So we pick which ever thing that seems to feel good at the moment.
I believe it’s a part of
our internal makeup to have a little bit of both femininity and masculinity ingrained in us. For women having a little masculinity helps us to be strong
enough to weather the storms in life and for men having a little femininity in
them makes them a little more sensitive to others. The problems arise when we
decide to let either femininity or masculinity take us over. We are not happy
with ourselves as we are and think we will be more appealing to others by
changing.
There are actually people
who do have a legitimate reason to feel that they are in the wrong bodies, they
are called “Intersex” or “Hermaphrodites” because they are born with the
genitalia of both sexes. Usually the parents decide which sex the child should
be shortly after birth and have the child surgically altered, so the parents
could actually pick the wrong sex for the child. These days they are often left
to decide for themselves and may never make a decision at all.
There was a time in my youth
when I actually applauded women who didn’t flaunt their sexuality, by dressing
in a way that didn’t use sex as a means of covering up for their lack of
talent! The problem was most of them actually turned out to be “gay”, which was
very disappointing to say the least! There also were men whom you knew seemed a
little too feminine and they too ended up being “gay”!
The really disappointing
thing is when people like Jenner, use it as a means of exploitation! If he was
really sincere in wanting to be just a woman, he would not have made such a big
deal about it, he would have done it quietly like so many others. He isn’t the
first, there is a relatively famous model that started out as a boy in some
foreign country too, but no one knew until she spoke out awhile ago. There have
been so many famous people or children of famous people who have decided to
change sexes, but I do find it odd that Jenner has a reality show lined up
already!
I do believe that it is a
sin against God to alter our sex for our own perverse desires; it’s a sin that
many have to live with the rest of their lives, but it’s no greater than the sin
of just changing our sexual preference or abortion, adultery, incest,
pornography, drugs or any other.
Perhaps Bruce Jenner will
someday be called by Jesus and repent with the rest of us sinners! I’m sure God
is waiting!
