Why are so many young people becoming transgender?
First we need to remember what people are looking for. When you hear people talk about why they became transgender, they describe it in terms of a [desire for] inner congruity or wholeness or peace—a feeling of being whole within themselves. In other words, they're looking for a sense of peace and a sense of wholeness.
Well, that’s our turf, people. We have the answer for that. And, like every deception of the evil one, the message of gender ideology has a grain of truth because people are looking at their lives and saying, “Something is wrong and I need to be a completely new person.”
And what the message of Jesus says is, yes, something is wrong. And yes, you do need to be a completely new person. But you need something that is so new, no surgeon can reach it. No pill can give it to you. No shock can deliver it. And no transformation of your body can produce it. You need to be made new from the inside out.
You need to be made new by being reconciled to your Creator, and until you are reconciled to your Creator, you will never have a sense of reconciliation within yourself.
What are people with gender dysphoria looking for? They’re looking for everything that human beings have been looking for throughout all of history. Ultimately, we are looking for peace with our Creator. A sense of meaning and significance.
They’re looking for it in hormones, in puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and even surgeries. . . .
You see, our culture wants us to believe that gender is all about self-understanding and self-fulfillment. But what Scripture tells us, what the Christian worldview tells us, is that God created us, down to the twenty-third chromosome determining whether we were male or female, to reflect Himself and to connect with Himself.
And that, my dear friends, is the world into which we have been sent. It’s the difference, the worldview, that we have been called to proclaim. We don’t get to sit this one out. There’s too much at stake. It’s already taken captive one generation, and there’s another one coming right behind them. . . .
People are looking for hope. I believe that in ten years, we are going to see so many young people look around and say, who was telling me the truth when I didn’t want to hear it? Who was telling me what I needed to hear when it was culturally unpopular and uncomfortable?
People of God. Let that be us.
Video and adapted transcript: McCoy, Katie J. “Gender and Discipleship.” What’s Happening Katie McCoy. Presented at First Baptist Church, Garland, TX, August 16, 2023. Used by permission.
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