WEBVTT 00:00:08.480 --> 00:00:13.359 I'm gonna read for us Genesis 5 verses 1 and 2. 00:00:14.480 --> 00:00:17.760 This is the book of the generations of Adam. 00:00:18.800 --> 00:00:23.199 When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. 00:00:24.160 --> 00:00:33.679 Male and female, he created them, he blessed them, and named them man when they were created. 00:00:35.039 --> 00:00:39.759 Couple comments on these two verses before we really dive in tonight. 00:00:40.000 --> 00:00:46.000 This is the heading in chapter 5 of the genealogy that you're gonna see that runs throughout chapter 5. 00:00:46.079 --> 00:00:52.719 Now there are several of these in the book of Genesis, little headings that give you the list of where everybody came from and where they're headed. 00:00:52.799 --> 00:00:57.359 You'll get the heading of the nations later after Babel, and this repeats itself a few times. 00:00:57.520 --> 00:01:02.079 And that's because Genesis is a book that's in the Bible that tells you where everything came from. 00:01:02.240 --> 00:01:03.759 That's what Genesis is here for. 00:01:03.920 --> 00:01:13.840 You want to know where worship came from, where sin came from, where people came from, where fish came from, where languages came from, nations came, government came from. 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:15.200 Genesis is your book. 00:01:15.439 --> 00:01:17.280 Describes where all those things came from. 00:01:17.439 --> 00:01:28.959 So here in Genesis 5, where this functions in the book of Genesis, because it goes back to Adam, and if we would have kept going, you would have seen that Adam had Seth, and that was not his oldest son, of course, in verse 3. 00:01:29.359 --> 00:01:33.120 Seth was at least the third son, and there may have been others, we don't know. 00:01:33.280 --> 00:01:39.599 But uh remember, Cain and Abel outranked Seth, and then they um had their own fates that's described earlier. 00:01:39.680 --> 00:01:43.920 So Genesis 5 is jumping in here to kind of launch you into the world. 00:01:44.560 --> 00:01:51.840 Genesis 4 is showing what happened when people got kicked out of the garden, namely they started murdering each other and polygamy started, and all kinds of bad stuff happened. 00:01:51.920 --> 00:01:52.879 That's Genesis 4. 00:01:53.040 --> 00:01:57.120 Now, Genesis 5 is gonna take you to the population of the earth. 00:01:57.280 --> 00:02:03.200 Genesis 6, of course, is there's bad things happening in the earth, they're sinning all kinds, and so God's gonna kill them all. 00:02:03.439 --> 00:02:05.040 That's where the book goes. 00:02:05.280 --> 00:02:17.680 But for now, Genesis 5, it's summarizing the main point of Genesis 1 and 2, which is that God made man, he made man differently than the animals, and we read all of Genesis 1 earlier tonight. 00:02:17.840 --> 00:02:22.479 In fact, it specifically says in Genesis 5, verse 1, he made him in the likeness of God. 00:02:22.639 --> 00:02:26.080 Now, when it says man here, it's using the word for Adam. 00:02:26.159 --> 00:02:27.280 It's the Hebrew word Adam. 00:02:27.439 --> 00:02:31.120 It's calling mankind's man after Adam's name. 00:02:31.199 --> 00:02:33.120 And, you know, now that's not politically correct. 00:02:33.280 --> 00:02:36.960 You want to speak of humankind or people or some gender-neutral term. 00:02:37.120 --> 00:02:41.919 But when the Bible describes mankind, it definitely uses the masculine term for Adam. 00:02:42.000 --> 00:02:43.280 It's using Adam's name. 00:02:43.360 --> 00:02:49.840 Uh, the human race in that sense came from both Adam and Eve, but Adam is credited for it for both good and bad. 00:02:50.080 --> 00:02:52.800 It's not all good that Adam gets the credit for. 00:02:52.960 --> 00:02:54.719 We are sinners because of Adam. 00:02:54.879 --> 00:03:01.680 Even though Eve ate the fruit first, we understand the Bible looks back at sin and says this was Adam's fault. 00:03:01.759 --> 00:03:05.599 We are made in the likeness of Adam, we have sinned because of Adam, etc., etc. 00:03:06.400 --> 00:03:15.840 So, for both good and bad, Adam is the representative of the human race there, and that is referenced in verse 2, even by the nature of mankind. 00:03:15.919 --> 00:03:19.599 And so when mankind is described in the Bible, it doesn't mean only male. 00:03:19.840 --> 00:03:28.240 When mankind is described in the Bible, it means male and female, or male or female, because there is definitely a dichotomy, a distinction. 00:03:28.719 --> 00:03:32.479 Gender is polar in that sense, either male or female. 00:03:32.560 --> 00:03:35.680 And this is so foundational to how the Bible is going to play out. 00:03:35.919 --> 00:03:44.080 You understand back in Genesis 2, it was not good for men to be alone because he couldn't be fruitful and multiply, he couldn't subdue the earth, he needed to help her. 00:03:44.159 --> 00:03:49.039 And so at the beginning of the human race, there are gender distinctions between men and women. 00:03:49.199 --> 00:03:56.639 There's going to be a calling on the man, and there's going to be a calling on the woman that transfers into a calling on the husband and a calling on the wife. 00:03:56.800 --> 00:03:58.879 And that colors all of society. 00:03:59.039 --> 00:04:01.039 All of human relations go back to that. 00:04:01.199 --> 00:04:07.120 In this sense, gender is after that you're a human being, gender is the most foundational thing about you. 00:04:07.680 --> 00:04:10.639 It's something that has the fingerprints of God on you. 00:04:10.800 --> 00:04:12.080 God made you that way. 00:04:12.240 --> 00:04:13.120 It's who you are. 00:04:13.280 --> 00:04:23.279 When a baby is born, back before people cheated and found out ahead of time, when the baby is born, the first thing the parents would ask is, is it a boy or a girl? 00:04:23.759 --> 00:04:26.480 Or the doctor would say, Congratulations, is a healthy baby girl. 00:04:26.560 --> 00:04:31.120 And everybody goes, Yay! Or congratulations, is a healthy baby boy, and the guy goes, Oh. 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:35.279 I have three girls. 00:04:35.920 --> 00:04:38.240 I won the lottery three times. 00:04:39.199 --> 00:04:43.439 This is the basic distinction in the human race. 00:04:44.319 --> 00:04:55.040 You understand the first thing about you, other than that you are a human and not a dog or a bird or a fish is that you're a male or female. 00:04:55.759 --> 00:04:57.040 It's so foundational. 00:04:57.519 --> 00:05:04.560 And I I belabor the point only because the reason it's so significant is because God made you that way. 00:05:05.199 --> 00:05:07.519 God designed you, God chose you. 00:05:07.680 --> 00:05:14.800 Now God named you in eternity past, but you're given a name by your parents. 00:05:15.279 --> 00:05:16.959 It's another little marker of God's sovereignty. 00:05:17.120 --> 00:05:21.839 Your parents named you, and they could have chosen whatever name they want, but they chose the name that God had for you. 00:05:22.319 --> 00:05:23.439 It's delightful. 00:05:24.879 --> 00:05:28.720 Your gender, though, that's given to you by God. 00:05:29.040 --> 00:05:30.639 Your parents didn't choose it for you. 00:05:31.120 --> 00:05:33.759 They didn't get to vote with, I think it was our second child. 00:05:33.920 --> 00:05:38.959 I wanted to, but I said be a true Calvinist and not find out the baby's gender until she was born. 00:05:39.360 --> 00:05:44.639 And uh uh Dieter told me, okay, you you can be surprised, but I'm gonna find out. 00:05:44.720 --> 00:05:45.839 And I was like, well, keep it a secret. 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:49.600 He's like, well, you're gonna see the room with like either pink or blue in it, so you're gonna know. 00:05:49.920 --> 00:05:51.839 Like, all right, all right. 00:05:52.079 --> 00:05:54.560 I said, I'm gonna be a true Calvinist and find out when the baby's born. 00:05:54.639 --> 00:05:59.120 And then somebody pointed out to me that Calvin actually knew that he his wife had children before they were married. 00:05:59.199 --> 00:06:02.160 So Calvin knew the gender of his babies when he got into it. 00:06:02.319 --> 00:06:04.240 So even that logic failed me. 00:06:05.279 --> 00:06:07.680 But it's so foundational. 00:06:08.560 --> 00:06:13.839 This is why our society is an open rebellion against gender. 00:06:14.079 --> 00:06:20.480 It's not because the concept of male and female is really that polemic or that difficult to grasp. 00:06:20.639 --> 00:06:25.120 It's not obscure, it's pretty, again, foundational, it's pretty obvious. 00:06:25.920 --> 00:06:30.240 Our society is in rebellion against it, not because it's a difficult concept to understand. 00:06:30.399 --> 00:06:34.879 Our society is in rebellion against it because it is the most innate part of you in how you're made. 00:06:35.040 --> 00:06:44.319 You can deny the image of God, which our society does very well through things like abortion and racism and 10,000 other sins that diminish the nature of God in people. 00:06:44.639 --> 00:06:47.920 But gender is where the action's at. 00:06:48.160 --> 00:06:53.920 If you can deny the existence of gender, then you begin to erase how God made the person. 00:06:54.399 --> 00:06:58.240 And erasing how God made the person is a step towards debasing the person. 00:06:58.399 --> 00:07:07.600 It is a step towards erasing the image of God, which leads to exploitation and sexual crimes against children and 10,000 other things that are not difficult to foresee. 00:07:08.480 --> 00:07:13.600 Now the kind of language that our society uses about gender is very different than verse 2. 00:07:13.759 --> 00:07:15.439 If you're male and female, he created them. 00:07:15.519 --> 00:07:18.720 Now our society uses language like sex assigned at birth. 00:07:19.360 --> 00:07:20.959 As if it's a derogatory thing. 00:07:21.120 --> 00:07:23.439 You know, what was your sex assigned at birth? 00:07:23.519 --> 00:07:28.480 Even medical forms and the most innocuous places will ask you what sex you were assigned at birth. 00:07:28.639 --> 00:07:37.199 Because if they ask you your gender, now in our society, you ask you your gender, they may not get the answer that's helpful because medical treatments vary based upon your uh your sex. 00:07:37.279 --> 00:07:42.480 And so if you say you're a gender different than your sex, that's actually robbing the doctor of what he needs to know. 00:07:42.639 --> 00:07:46.720 And so the new question is what sex were you assigned at birth? 00:07:47.360 --> 00:07:51.839 Implying that you can move away from how God made you. 00:07:52.720 --> 00:07:58.720 I went and re-listened to a sermon that I preached, I think it was seven years ago or so, on this topic. 00:07:58.800 --> 00:08:02.000 We were over in the atrium on a Sunday, uh Sunday night service. 00:08:02.160 --> 00:08:10.399 There was something going on in Fairfax County Schools, I don't even remember the exact details of it, and uh they were adopting a proposal for gender neutrality and all kinds of stuff. 00:08:10.480 --> 00:08:13.199 And you know, everybody was feigning ignorance back then. 00:08:13.360 --> 00:08:29.600 They were saying, oh, this isn't about the sexual revolution, this isn't about transgenderism, this is about uh, you know, a child who is you know abused at home and has a rough home life, and the parents are uh you know treating him in a certain way, or maybe even making a boy dress up like a girl to kind of punish him. 00:08:29.839 --> 00:08:31.519 His the school should be a safe place. 00:08:31.600 --> 00:08:32.639 That was the language they were using. 00:08:32.720 --> 00:08:33.919 The school should be a safe place. 00:08:34.080 --> 00:08:42.320 And all of these activists were were protesting, and and mostly Christian and Catholic activists were protesting the school board saying, Well, you know, what are you doing? 00:08:42.399 --> 00:08:51.759 This is gonna lead to sexual assaults in the bathroom, and this is gonna lead to teachers cross-dressing in front of their students and all kinds of uh pornography in the library and all kinds of stuff like that. 00:08:51.840 --> 00:08:54.799 And then the school board was saying, Oh no, no, no, no. 00:08:55.440 --> 00:08:57.759 That's not at all what this is gonna lead to. 00:08:58.799 --> 00:09:06.320 And so it's interesting just checking in seven years later and asking yourself, like, who was telling the truth back then? 00:09:07.039 --> 00:09:08.080 Who was telling the truth? 00:09:08.240 --> 00:09:12.240 Was it the protesters or the the school board leaders? 00:09:12.399 --> 00:09:23.039 And you would think if you're confronted or caught in such, you know, outlandish denials and falsehoods that you would apologize or something like that. 00:09:23.279 --> 00:09:27.120 Repent is a more biblical word, but no, of course not. 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:34.559 The language sex assigned at birth has taken on such meaning now because of the way gender is taught in schools. 00:09:34.720 --> 00:09:36.240 You know, this comes from the universities. 00:09:36.480 --> 00:09:41.519 People get teaching credentials that you can major in gender studies and get your degree in that. 00:09:41.600 --> 00:09:44.240 You then cycle back to the schools where you're teaching it. 00:09:44.320 --> 00:09:51.440 And so this is just the basic concept now in children's books, in um in schools all over the place, basic understanding of gender. 00:09:51.519 --> 00:09:55.679 Now it's so different than what you see in Genesis um chapter five. 00:09:55.840 --> 00:09:59.039 Now there's four components of gender, and this, by the way, is from 2015. 00:09:59.120 --> 00:10:03.279 I'm sure uh gender studies activists would be just appalled at this right now. 00:10:03.360 --> 00:10:09.200 I remember showing this seven years ago, and this was like cutting edge then, but I'm sure much of this has been denied in the last seven years. 00:10:09.440 --> 00:10:17.279 Four components of gender, according to the politically correct wisdom of the year of our Lord 2015, is gender identity. 00:10:17.440 --> 00:10:18.639 That's one component of your gender. 00:10:18.720 --> 00:10:19.919 That's how you see yourself. 00:10:20.080 --> 00:10:23.519 Do you see yourself as a boy or a girl, a male or a female? 00:10:23.679 --> 00:10:26.399 But that's not your gender, that's just part of it, one component. 00:10:26.559 --> 00:10:31.200 A second component of it is your gender expression, how you present yourself. 00:10:31.440 --> 00:10:40.320 A third component, just one factor of it, is your biological sex, what gender you're born with, and that's the part I'm sure has been attacked now and erased. 00:10:40.559 --> 00:10:43.519 And then fourth, your sexual orientation. 00:10:43.679 --> 00:10:46.720 Those are the four components back in 2015 of gender. 00:10:46.879 --> 00:10:53.919 You take those into a you know a pot, you proportion them, and everybody can proportion them differently, and that determines what you will present. 00:10:54.080 --> 00:10:57.200 This is the background for presenting gender on a spectrum. 00:10:57.759 --> 00:11:04.480 In our culture, now gender is not binary, it's not uh 2x or X and Y, uh, 2X for female, X and Y for male. 00:11:04.639 --> 00:11:07.440 No, no, no, there's many, many, many more genders. 00:11:07.519 --> 00:11:14.879 You know, it was kind of comical back seven years ago when Facebook had 62 genders or whatever you could choose from, and that was you know something you laugh about. 00:11:14.960 --> 00:11:21.120 And now just those categories have been obliterated: male, female, or just whatever's. 00:11:21.440 --> 00:11:23.679 That's kind of how it works now. 00:11:23.840 --> 00:11:26.480 And this comes from a separation of sex from gender. 00:11:26.720 --> 00:11:36.399 Sex is number three in your list up there, the biological sex you're born with, um, and then gender becomes what you were signed with in relation to your biological gender, which of course is subject to change. 00:11:36.559 --> 00:11:45.120 My middle school grammar teacher, Cleveland Middle School in Albuquerque, New Mexico, my I think seventh grade English teacher, uh, Mrs. 00:11:45.279 --> 00:11:48.240 McKay was her name, and this is ingrained in my head. 00:11:48.399 --> 00:11:53.679 She taught us the difference between sex and gender is that people have sex, nouns have gender. 00:11:53.840 --> 00:11:56.960 And I'm sure she would be fired for that today. 00:12:01.039 --> 00:12:02.720 That is a basic truth, though. 00:12:02.960 --> 00:12:07.200 Sex is your uh biological capacity that you are born with. 00:12:07.360 --> 00:12:09.679 Gender is something that just exists in the world. 00:12:09.840 --> 00:12:12.080 You know, gender is a function of language. 00:12:12.240 --> 00:12:17.840 Uh, in my Bible program today, I looked up a topical guide of gender, and everything that came up was about grammar. 00:12:17.919 --> 00:12:21.759 It was about the idiosyncrasies of Syriac and Aramaic. 00:12:21.919 --> 00:12:24.080 Not what I was looking for for tonight. 00:12:24.559 --> 00:12:29.120 You know, you understand that gender is it is innate even in language. 00:12:29.200 --> 00:12:30.879 It's socially constructed in language. 00:12:30.960 --> 00:12:40.480 You know, a taco has a masculine identity, a testada has a female identity, and it is not because one is crunchier or harder or sterner than the other. 00:12:40.799 --> 00:12:44.480 If you get them a taco bell, they're both equally poisonous. 00:12:48.159 --> 00:12:50.720 So, in that sense, gender is a social construct. 00:12:50.799 --> 00:12:53.679 But when it comes to people, it is, of course, innate. 00:12:53.840 --> 00:12:55.279 It is as Genesis 5. 00:12:55.519 --> 00:12:58.960 Verse 2 says, Male and female, God created them. 00:13:00.639 --> 00:13:09.120 This, of course, has gone mainstream in the last few years with what is called the DSM 5, which is the diagnostic study manual in psychology. 00:13:09.200 --> 00:13:14.720 It is commonly referred to in the psychological world as the Bible of psychology. 00:13:14.879 --> 00:13:17.759 Um there's, and that's not a coincidence, by the way. 00:13:17.919 --> 00:13:20.399 In the psychological world, the DSM is their Bible. 00:13:20.480 --> 00:13:22.080 It is the infallible guide. 00:13:22.240 --> 00:13:24.720 It is very psychology now is very much a religion. 00:13:24.799 --> 00:13:30.960 It's got its own gods, its own priestly class, its own sacrifices, its own language, its own terms, its own church, its own rituals. 00:13:31.039 --> 00:13:32.559 The only thing they're missing is forgiveness. 00:13:32.639 --> 00:13:33.759 They don't have that. 00:13:34.240 --> 00:13:37.200 But they definitely have their own Bible, the DSM V. 00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:42.159 And uh and the TR at the end of it is the uh the text revision. 00:13:42.240 --> 00:13:45.759 That's the new one that just came out, I think, around a year ago. 00:13:46.000 --> 00:13:49.519 It has a whole category that's incorporated gender studies into it. 00:13:49.679 --> 00:13:56.960 Uh and uh it's helpful, I think, for you to know about it because I don't expect any of you to have the DSM V or to read the DSM V. 00:13:57.200 --> 00:14:00.879 I've had people ask me, like, why do you care so much about what the DSM V says? 00:14:01.039 --> 00:14:02.159 You know, nobody has that. 00:14:02.240 --> 00:14:05.759 It's not for sale in our bookstore, it's not on our shelves in the church. 00:14:05.919 --> 00:14:07.200 Well, of course not. 00:14:07.360 --> 00:14:17.679 But it is so significant because, like it, like a seminary textbook affects pastors, even if you don't have that textbook in your house, it affects what I read and what I say. 00:14:17.919 --> 00:14:28.799 So that kind of book affects the psychology world, which affects counseling, which affects teaching accreditation, it affects anybody who touches it and what they teach and what they spread to those underneath it. 00:14:28.879 --> 00:14:36.080 And it is extremely noxious and poisonous, and that's why I want you to be aware of what it says so you're not caught unawares. 00:14:36.159 --> 00:14:37.759 Uh, and it has a whole section on gender. 00:14:37.919 --> 00:14:41.519 I want to walk you through what it teaches about gender dysphoria right now. 00:14:41.600 --> 00:14:49.679 It recognizes gender dysphoria as a uh psychological disorder, and uh, you know, it's something that can be prescribed, identified. 00:14:49.759 --> 00:14:53.600 This is a DSM stands for diagnostic study uh uh manual. 00:14:53.679 --> 00:15:00.240 It's like what you're diagnosed with, it's to help people diagnose uh any psychological disorder you have. 00:15:00.320 --> 00:15:05.679 And gender dysphoria is one of the psychological disorders, and here is how it is uh identified. 00:15:05.759 --> 00:15:08.080 Now, I don't know if you can read that, yeah, it's bigger behind. 00:15:08.240 --> 00:15:08.639 Great. 00:15:09.279 --> 00:15:11.200 Well, I'll walk you through what this says. 00:15:11.360 --> 00:15:14.480 You have gender dysphoria if you check a few of these boxes. 00:15:14.639 --> 00:15:18.240 Uh so you don't need all these boxes, a few of them suffices. 00:15:18.399 --> 00:15:23.919 Uh first, there's a marked incongruence between one's experienced and one's expressed gender. 00:15:24.080 --> 00:15:26.480 So just think about that phrase for a second. 00:15:26.639 --> 00:15:29.840 You can't really get past the first sentence for needing to stop. 00:15:30.720 --> 00:15:33.200 Your experienced gender. 00:15:33.840 --> 00:15:37.200 That's so that's how people treat you, I suppose. 00:15:37.759 --> 00:15:40.000 Um the phrase cisgender comes into play. 00:15:40.080 --> 00:15:47.600 That's if you feel like you're a boy and you were born with boy parts and you feel like you're a boy, your cisgender, that's your experienced gender. 00:15:48.320 --> 00:16:00.080 Your expressed gender could be different than that, of course, but if there's an incongruence between your experienced or expressed gender and your primary or secondary sex characteristics. 00:16:00.559 --> 00:16:07.120 And I believe by primary and secondary, they mean primary what you're born with, secondary what you develop at puberty. 00:16:07.919 --> 00:16:10.799 So that's a distinction between that and your gender. 00:16:10.879 --> 00:16:17.440 So if you see an incongruence there, how do secondary sex characteristics play out in adolescence? 00:16:17.679 --> 00:16:22.240 Well, in young adolescents, your anticipated sex characteristics. 00:16:22.320 --> 00:16:26.320 So you see where the logically you can't get through the first point before it's breaking down. 00:16:26.799 --> 00:16:36.559 You feel an incongruence or disconnect between how you feel now and your anticipated body in the future. 00:16:36.720 --> 00:16:43.440 Not even an incongruence between your body now, because you would think, hey, gender dysphoria could be I feel like a girl when I have a boy's body. 00:16:43.519 --> 00:16:48.879 But what do you tell somebody before puberty who feels like a girl but doesn't have a man's body yet? 00:16:49.919 --> 00:16:54.879 Oh, it's isn't he feels a marked incongruity with his anticipated body in the future. 00:16:55.600 --> 00:16:58.159 I mean, this is totally whacked. 00:16:58.720 --> 00:17:15.920 Secondly, a strong desire to be rid of one's primary andor secondary characteristics because of a marked incongruence with one's experienced or expressed gender, or in young adolescents, a desire to prevent the development of anticipated secondary sex characteristics. 00:17:16.400 --> 00:17:17.519 This is gender dysphoria. 00:17:17.680 --> 00:17:20.240 Like I don't want that body that I'm going to get. 00:17:22.720 --> 00:17:25.519 I mean, this is like every 12-year-old, isn't it? 00:17:26.880 --> 00:17:36.000 But thirdly, a strong desire for the primary andor secondary sex characteristics of the other gender. 00:17:37.519 --> 00:17:40.720 So you really want a different body than you have. 00:17:40.960 --> 00:18:00.319 Fourthly, a strong desire to be rid of the other gender, or some alternative gender different, a strong desire to be of the other gender, or some alternative gender different from one's assigned gender, or a strong desire to be treated as the other gender, or some alternative gender different from one's assigned gender, some alternative gender. 00:18:00.480 --> 00:18:03.119 You recognize you've fallen in the wormhole at this point. 00:18:03.359 --> 00:18:04.880 There's no coming out. 00:18:05.519 --> 00:18:13.200 A strong conviction that one has the typical feelings and reactions of the other gender are some alternative gender different from one's assigned gender. 00:18:13.359 --> 00:18:18.240 Just marvel, what a mastery of English language and obscurity right there. 00:18:18.480 --> 00:18:25.440 A strong conviction that you have typical feelings of the other gender that you don't have. 00:18:26.079 --> 00:18:29.039 I mean, it's tempting just to make jokes at this. 00:18:29.359 --> 00:18:34.960 Like husbands are trying to figure out the strong feelings of a wife since the Adam and Eve, you know. 00:18:36.400 --> 00:18:42.559 But you don't really want to dismiss it with a joke because of the just the rampant harm that it is doing in society. 00:18:42.720 --> 00:18:48.559 I mean, this is the idea that you think, like, I don't feel like a boy. 00:18:48.720 --> 00:18:50.000 I bet I feel like a girl. 00:18:50.079 --> 00:18:54.880 And the target audience of this isn't even you in your, you know, 30 or 40 or 50-year-old body. 00:18:55.039 --> 00:18:57.599 The target audience here is 10-year-olds and 11-year-olds. 00:18:57.680 --> 00:18:59.119 That's who the target audience of this is. 00:18:59.279 --> 00:19:00.720 That's who they're after. 00:19:01.839 --> 00:19:06.400 It's the 11-year-old boy who says, you know, I think I feel like a girl. 00:19:07.359 --> 00:19:16.960 Or the 11-year-old girl who's slow to hit puberty and her friends are hitting it first, and she's looking at her body and she says, I don't feel like a girl. 00:19:18.720 --> 00:19:20.799 The DSM swoops in and says, Aha. 00:19:22.160 --> 00:19:24.880 Have we got a solution for you? 00:19:25.839 --> 00:19:29.519 Now, these are not sufficient to be diagnosed with gendered dysphoria, to be clear. 00:19:29.759 --> 00:19:35.680 A few of them, if you can check a few of these boxes, you move on to the second stage in the DSM. 00:19:35.920 --> 00:19:40.559 The second stage here is they have to be paired with these criteria. 00:19:40.640 --> 00:19:41.519 This is how you're diagnosed. 00:19:41.599 --> 00:19:43.119 So you have those internal desires. 00:19:43.279 --> 00:19:49.599 If they're paired with this, a strong desire to be of the other gender or an insistence that one is of the other gender. 00:19:49.680 --> 00:19:51.200 So here you're going to personal experience. 00:19:51.279 --> 00:19:56.799 Now the person that says, I insist on the other gender, or some alternative gender different from one's assigned gender. 00:19:58.000 --> 00:20:01.279 In boys, and they have to put in the parentheses right here. 00:20:01.519 --> 00:20:06.319 This is fall, again, it's it's comical how logically flimsy this is. 00:20:06.720 --> 00:20:11.039 In boys who have the assigned gender of boys, like there's no other way to say it. 00:20:11.200 --> 00:20:20.559 We don't believe in boys or girls, we reject that dichotomy, gender's on a spectrum, but we're wrestling with the fact that in order to diagnose gender dysphoria, we have to have a binary. 00:20:20.720 --> 00:20:30.319 We have to say there's only two, even though our foundation here is there's not only two, there's a million, but in order to get this whole ship to sail, we have to say there's only two just to get out to port. 00:20:31.440 --> 00:20:34.720 And so once we push out, we'll get rid of this. 00:20:34.880 --> 00:20:45.200 But for now, if you were a signed boy, you have a strong preference for cross-dressing or simulating female attire. 00:20:45.839 --> 00:20:48.960 Again, the target audience of here is like the kids. 00:20:50.160 --> 00:20:54.000 Does your son wear his sister's dresses? 00:20:55.359 --> 00:20:55.599 Ha ha. 00:20:56.960 --> 00:20:58.000 Bring him in. 00:20:59.039 --> 00:21:00.960 Or what about for a girl? 00:21:01.200 --> 00:21:11.759 In girls who were assigned gender, of course, just for the sake of discussion, a strong preference for wearing only typical masculine clothing, and a strong resistance to the wearing of typical female clothing. 00:21:14.160 --> 00:21:22.640 A strong preference for cross-gender roles, whatever that means, in make-believe play or fantasy play. 00:21:22.720 --> 00:21:32.559 So the girl wants to be the dad who goes to work or the boy wants to be the mom that stays home, that must be gender dysphoria. 00:21:34.240 --> 00:21:40.559 You think, isn't kind of the worldview that's producing this that women can go to work? 00:21:41.519 --> 00:21:45.200 Isn't that kind of in the worldview that's producing this book? 00:21:45.599 --> 00:21:53.200 Then how can a daughter who wants to be the worker be a sign of gender dysphoria if there's no gender distinctions in the workplace to begin with? 00:21:53.680 --> 00:21:56.160 It just doesn't make any sense. 00:21:57.200 --> 00:21:59.759 A strong preference for cross gender, I said this, a strong preference. 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:05.039 For the toys, games, or activities stereotypically used or engaged in by the other gender. 00:22:05.279 --> 00:22:12.400 Again, a boy with, I have friends that have, you know, young kids with older sisters. 00:22:12.559 --> 00:22:16.160 What do you think the two boys play with when they're around the house? 00:22:16.240 --> 00:22:18.000 They play with their sisters' toys. 00:22:19.279 --> 00:22:23.039 What if they respect their sister and they want to be like their sister when they grow up? 00:22:23.119 --> 00:22:24.799 What if they have an older sister? 00:22:25.200 --> 00:22:30.880 You know, what if your older sister's 12, 15 years older than you're a boy, and you got an older sister 15 years older than you? 00:22:31.119 --> 00:22:36.400 And you respect her and you want to be like her and you play with her toys and you can see where this is going. 00:22:37.279 --> 00:22:39.440 What is a healthy relationship? 00:22:39.519 --> 00:22:41.440 It's good to respect your older siblings. 00:22:41.599 --> 00:22:43.759 It's good to play with toys around the house. 00:22:44.000 --> 00:22:45.119 That's totally normal. 00:22:45.279 --> 00:22:47.519 In a healthy family, that's great. 00:22:47.839 --> 00:22:49.599 But not in this world. 00:22:49.839 --> 00:22:54.160 In this world, that's a sign of gender dysphoria. 00:22:54.960 --> 00:22:56.640 Oh, this keeps going, by the way. 00:22:56.799 --> 00:22:57.599 A strong preference. 00:22:57.680 --> 00:23:00.480 I don't want to belabor this all night, but I do want you to be aware of it. 00:23:00.559 --> 00:23:03.039 A strong preference for playmates of the other gender. 00:23:03.279 --> 00:23:11.279 Again, you just think of a thousand things, but families with a mixture of boys and girls, of course you're gonna see this. 00:23:11.359 --> 00:23:13.680 So they put in a strong preference, it's so subjective. 00:23:13.839 --> 00:23:22.319 In boys, a sign gender, a strong rejection of typically masculine toys, games, and activities, and a strong avoidance of rough and tumble play. 00:23:22.640 --> 00:23:25.279 Notice this is just playing into stereotypes, isn't it? 00:23:25.440 --> 00:23:29.039 Like you've got a little boy that doesn't like wrestling that you associate with boys. 00:23:29.200 --> 00:23:31.839 Like his older brothers wrestle and he's like, I don't want to get hurt. 00:23:34.720 --> 00:23:38.960 You know, or a little girl who has older brothers and she wants to join in in wrestling. 00:23:39.359 --> 00:23:39.839 Uh-oh. 00:23:42.400 --> 00:23:48.079 Or for girls and their assigned gender, a strong rejection of typically feminine toys, games, and activities. 00:23:49.039 --> 00:23:54.079 And you think of, you know, toy stores that are attacking segregating toys, and that's kind of coming full circle. 00:23:54.160 --> 00:24:00.799 A few years ago, toy stores used to stop segregating their toys and bring them all together, and they found that it hurts sales, and so they're going back to it. 00:24:01.519 --> 00:24:07.680 But even in a world of the toys shelf becomes blurred, how is this even feasible? 00:24:08.400 --> 00:24:11.440 A strong dislike of one's sexual anatomy. 00:24:14.240 --> 00:24:23.039 Again, that's very typical in adolescent kids, both boys and girls, to dislike your body. 00:24:23.119 --> 00:24:26.559 I mean, that's like a normal phase people go through. 00:24:27.119 --> 00:24:29.440 But what if you're going through that phase now? 00:24:31.599 --> 00:24:47.680 You're going through that phase and you don't like your body, and you're upset about how you look, and you go to school, and you realize the quickest path to popularity is to present yourself as the other gender. 00:24:48.319 --> 00:24:57.119 So you're the girl that develops more slowly or more quickly than your friends, and you think I stand out, I'm not popular. 00:24:57.279 --> 00:25:00.640 Again, a very normal middle school experience, right? 00:25:01.599 --> 00:25:14.960 But if you're that person and you feel isolated, and now you have the highway to popularity, if you get on this by presenting yourself as the other gender, that is a drug that is hard to get out of. 00:25:15.759 --> 00:25:19.359 You go from being isolated to being popular in a moment. 00:25:20.319 --> 00:25:25.920 A strong desire for the physical sex characteristics that match one's experienced gender. 00:25:26.000 --> 00:25:27.519 And now the switcheroo is complete. 00:25:27.680 --> 00:25:30.400 The last one on the list and the switcheroo is complete. 00:25:31.200 --> 00:25:35.039 Your experienced gender at this point, we're no longer diagnosing gender dysphoria. 00:25:35.279 --> 00:25:45.440 That's what it is in the book, but you're no longer really doing that game when you say, I feel like I want the body that matches the toys I play with, then you have it. 00:25:45.599 --> 00:25:46.720 That's gender dysphoria. 00:25:46.880 --> 00:25:49.359 The DSM5 goes on to talk about how to treat it. 00:25:50.319 --> 00:25:54.160 First of all, in order to treat it, here's two presuppositions we enter in with. 00:25:54.319 --> 00:26:02.720 First of all, support must be given by a therapist without the therapist having any predefined gender identity or expression defined as preferable to another. 00:26:02.880 --> 00:26:10.960 So in order for you to treat this, the starting point is the therapist or the person giving the treatment cannot want one outcome over the other. 00:26:11.359 --> 00:26:13.440 And this is why this is so backwards. 00:26:13.599 --> 00:26:20.880 You would think if you're actually trying to help the person, like let's let's play this straight for now. 00:26:21.200 --> 00:26:22.400 Let's play it straight. 00:26:22.720 --> 00:26:28.319 The 13-year-old comes to you and says, I want to be, the 13-year-old girl comes to you and says, I want to be a boy. 00:26:28.640 --> 00:26:30.720 I think I need a boy's body. 00:26:32.079 --> 00:26:33.839 What's the right way to help that person? 00:26:34.000 --> 00:26:36.319 Just like take Genesis 5 out of it. 00:26:36.400 --> 00:26:37.920 Let's just go into the world we live in. 00:26:38.079 --> 00:26:40.319 What is the best way to help that person? 00:26:41.039 --> 00:26:48.480 To help them work through acceptance and the body they have and know that they can have a fruitful life and a happy life like they are. 00:26:48.640 --> 00:26:53.119 That would be the right way to direct that person, even by worldly standards. 00:26:54.240 --> 00:26:55.759 Like there's a way for you to fit in. 00:26:55.839 --> 00:27:01.200 But no, the starting point to operating in this is to not prefer that. 00:27:02.079 --> 00:27:09.279 And obviously, if you've made it this far in the system, you know the ending point is going to be definitely a preference. 00:27:09.440 --> 00:27:14.720 Like nobody reads this and thinks, like, oh, they don't have an agenda here. 00:27:15.279 --> 00:27:18.079 No, they they definitely have a preferred outcome in this. 00:27:19.519 --> 00:27:26.160 Secondly, psychological attempts to, quote, force a transgender person to be cisgender are unethical. 00:27:26.720 --> 00:27:31.200 This was a big deal in California last year because of this new revision of the DSM. 00:27:31.279 --> 00:27:41.599 There was a bill in California that would ban the sale of books that encouraged the, quote, forced conversion of people to a cisgender identity. 00:27:42.000 --> 00:27:45.200 Well, there's really one book on that list that they're after. 00:27:45.839 --> 00:27:46.880 Let me give you a hint. 00:27:47.039 --> 00:27:48.960 It's in every one of your laps. 00:27:50.319 --> 00:27:52.640 I mean, that's that's the target here. 00:27:54.079 --> 00:27:57.839 And here's the right way to support the transgender person. 00:27:57.920 --> 00:28:00.559 We'll get to this and then we'll get out of it. 00:28:01.279 --> 00:28:05.839 The right way to support the person with gender uh dysphoria, three categories. 00:28:06.000 --> 00:28:08.000 First, socially, use their preferred pronouns. 00:28:08.160 --> 00:28:13.839 Second, legally, prescribe them a new gender, get a passport with a different gender, driver's license with a different gender. 00:28:14.079 --> 00:28:20.240 Thirdly, medically, if they're prefubescent, give them puberty blockers, gender suppressing hormones. 00:28:21.039 --> 00:28:27.519 And finally, some adults, and less often adolescents, may undergo various aspects of surgical affirmation. 00:28:27.759 --> 00:28:33.359 I thought about showing you a picture of what that looks like, but I I went back and forth to a show. 00:28:33.519 --> 00:28:35.599 I mean, they take off a part of your arm. 00:28:36.160 --> 00:28:37.279 I mean, it's horrible. 00:28:37.519 --> 00:28:38.319 Absolutely horrible. 00:28:38.400 --> 00:28:40.000 And they're doing this to kids. 00:28:40.400 --> 00:28:41.759 Um, it's incredible. 00:28:42.000 --> 00:28:44.319 And this is already making its way through the medical world. 00:28:44.400 --> 00:28:48.880 For example, I uh yanked this off of the Duke University website. 00:28:49.039 --> 00:28:53.519 Name moments ago, they have a medical center for child and adolescent gender care. 00:28:54.319 --> 00:28:56.240 Um, just think about having that. 00:28:56.559 --> 00:28:59.440 Medical center for child and adolescent gender care. 00:29:00.720 --> 00:29:06.960 And they say, quote, gender identity is the only medically supported determinant of sex. 00:29:07.440 --> 00:29:09.759 So XX, XY, get that out. 00:29:09.920 --> 00:29:13.599 The only way to rightly identify somebody's sex is their gender identity. 00:29:14.720 --> 00:29:32.720 And they add, so we've left the DSM here around Dujik University, they've add, it's counter to medical science to use chromosomes, hormones, internal reproductive organs, external reproductive organs, secondary sex characteristics to override gender identity in order to classify someone as male or female. 00:29:32.880 --> 00:29:52.160 So in other words, if you feel, if you have an identity that you feel that is distinct from your secondary, which means your anticipated, for a prepubescent person, your anticipated physical identity, it's your identity that is your real sex. 00:29:52.480 --> 00:29:53.839 So this is full circle. 00:29:53.920 --> 00:29:55.920 It started by decoupling sex from gender. 00:29:56.000 --> 00:29:57.359 That's where things were seven years ago. 00:29:57.519 --> 00:30:01.599 The goal was to decouple seven years ago sex from gender and make them two different things. 00:30:01.920 --> 00:30:06.240 But now it's been in orbit for seven years and it has circled back around. 00:30:06.400 --> 00:30:08.880 Now the goal is to join the two together again. 00:30:09.119 --> 00:30:12.160 They were separate for a while, and now it's to bring them back together. 00:30:12.319 --> 00:30:15.920 It used to be, you know, 20 years ago, gender was determined by sex. 00:30:16.079 --> 00:30:17.759 Seven years ago, separate those two. 00:30:17.839 --> 00:30:23.839 They're two different things, and now it's to bring them back together only to say that sex is determined by gender. 00:30:24.000 --> 00:30:28.480 And here's where I just want to pull the car over and say, this is what the experts teach. 00:30:29.440 --> 00:30:33.519 This is probably not what most transgender people believe. 00:30:35.680 --> 00:30:36.640 It just isn't. 00:30:36.799 --> 00:30:44.160 This is what the people in schools and hospitals and psychologists that have the person in the chair, this is what they believe. 00:30:44.960 --> 00:30:49.839 The reality, and I read this from a report from the Heritage Foundation that was very sobering. 00:30:50.079 --> 00:30:54.079 You know, they said that most transgender people are victims of this world. 00:30:54.319 --> 00:30:57.200 They're not the perpetrators of it, they're the victims of it. 00:30:57.440 --> 00:31:01.519 They got sucked into this world and they really don't know how to get out. 00:31:01.680 --> 00:31:18.079 I mean, you think of a parent, you send your kids to school, your kids are taught this from a young age, so that when they hit this, they they experience this, and the parents don't know how to navigate this, they don't know what to do with this child, and they're told you need to support this child, you need to affirm the child and their new gender identity. 00:31:18.160 --> 00:31:19.680 If you don't, they could commit suicide. 00:31:19.759 --> 00:31:23.680 They say things like it's better to have a living son than a dead daughter kind of language. 00:31:23.759 --> 00:31:26.000 And the parents are victims of this. 00:31:26.640 --> 00:31:28.000 The kids are victims of this. 00:31:28.079 --> 00:31:31.359 The kids are being taught this by their teachers, they're victims of this. 00:31:35.759 --> 00:31:40.000 And that should make you recalibrate how you engage in this topic. 00:31:42.000 --> 00:31:45.759 I do want to help you think through this topic with a few truths. 00:31:45.839 --> 00:31:47.119 I want to give you three truths tonight. 00:31:47.279 --> 00:31:49.759 If you're taking notes, write this stuff down, not that other garbage. 00:31:49.920 --> 00:31:50.880 Write this stuff. 00:31:52.160 --> 00:31:53.440 Three truths about gender. 00:31:53.599 --> 00:31:54.960 First, gender is real. 00:31:55.680 --> 00:31:56.880 Gender is real. 00:31:58.000 --> 00:32:00.079 This goes back to Genesis 5, verse 2. 00:32:00.319 --> 00:32:01.759 Male and female, he created them. 00:32:01.920 --> 00:32:03.599 That is a real thing. 00:32:05.839 --> 00:32:07.599 It's not a social construct. 00:32:08.160 --> 00:32:10.799 With language, sure it's a social construct. 00:32:11.279 --> 00:32:13.920 It's about the etymology and the morphology of words. 00:32:14.079 --> 00:32:15.039 I get that. 00:32:16.799 --> 00:32:19.920 But in people, gender is real. 00:32:21.200 --> 00:32:26.720 And if gender is real, how can it be a social construct? 00:32:27.519 --> 00:32:32.799