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Can a woman have surgery so that she appears to be a man? Yes. Can she take hormones and suppressants so that she appears even more to be a man? Yes. Can a culture decide it wants to use the word “man” to describe people who work really hard at appearing to be a man? Unfortunately, yes.
But can a man stop taking hormone therapy and then naturally produce an egg to combine with another man’s gametes and end up with an embryo? No. Only a woman who has worked really hard at appearing to be a man to the point where her culture was willing to call her a man can do so.
The New York Times (click here for the article) thinks the “pregnant man–’Mr.’ Beatie”–described in their story has “powered past traditional definitions of gender.” But notice that the entire (more…)

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The decision of some Reformed Jewish leaders in England to transform a book of prayer into a means for breaking the gender barrier (described here for instance) raises an old, pretty simple issue. But it also reveals a much deeper problem about how people attempt to evade the Bible’s message and use the very tools intended to clarify scripture to muddle it.
The simple issue is whether masculine pronouns and images used about God throughout scripture–indeed, used on almost every page–communicate something true about the nature of God. Christians have been arguing more and more about whether God is male, or masculine, over the past half century. C.S. Lewis’ article on what he refers to as priestesses in the church (in God in the Dock) is his response to the Anglican push in 1948 to ordain women to the priesthood! This article at Crosswalk illustrates how common the topic is by raising it as the first question at issue after the existence of God. (more…)

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