Transgenderism & Truth

Few issues today are as contested as transgenderism. Many claim gender is not tied to the body but is self-chosen or fluid. This vision promises freedom but often leaves greater confusion, brokenness, and pain. When people seek to define themselves apart from God’s design, they step away from the foundation that gives life meaning.

Scripture is clear that God made humanity male and female — equal in dignity, distinct in design, and created to reflect His image together. To blur or deny those distinctions is to question not only biology but the Creator’s wisdom. Truth is not fluid; it is anchored in the unchanging God. The church must respond with both conviction and compassion. Silence leaves people captive to cultural lies, but cruelty closes the door to grace. Instead, believers are called to hold fast to God’s truth while offering Christ’s mercy, pointing all people to the hope of new identity in Him.

1. Trends – What the Culture Is Teaching

• Gender as Choice – Culture teaches that gender is determined by self-perception, not biology. Many describe feeling “trapped” in a body that doesn’t match their true gender.
• Medicalization of Identity – Hormones and surgeries are presented as solutions to inner struggles, though they often bring irreversible consequences.
• Cultural Pressure – Those who affirm biblical truth are labeled as intolerant and not tolerated.
• Rising Brokenness – Confusion about gender has contributed to higher rates of depression, anxiety, and fractured relationships.

2. Truths – What Scripture Says

• God created male and female – Genesis 5:2: “He created them male and female. When they were created, he blessed them and called them mankind.” 
• God affirms His design through Christ – Matthew 19:4: “[Jesus] answered, ‘Haven’t you read that he who created them in the beginning made them male and female?’” 
• God condemns distortions of His design – Deuteronomy 22:5: “A woman is not to wear male clothing, and a man is not to put on a woman’s garment, for everyone who does these things is detestable to the Lord your God.” 
• God identifies gender confusion as part of sin’s disorder – Romans 1:26-27: “For this reason God delivered them over to disgraceful passions… males committed shameless acts with males.” 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 lists the “effeminate” and “men who have sex with men” among those living outside God’s design. 
• God offers renewal in Christ – 1 Corinthians 6:11: “And some of you used to be like this. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified...”

3. Transfers – How to Communicate Truth to Others

• Speak the truth clearly – Gender is not self-made but God-given.
• Show compassion in conversations – Many struggling with gender identity carry deep hurt; Christians must listen with patience while pointing to God’s truth.
• Address the “born this way” claim – Even if dysphoria has biological or psychological roots, that does not make it right to embrace. 
• Highlight identity in Christ – Ultimate identity is not in gender but in being a child of God through Christ.
• Offer better hope – The gospel doesn’t promise self-reinvention but true transformation.

Ask redemptive questions – “What if your truest self isn’t something you create but Someone you receive?” “How might God’s design be better than what the culture offers?”