Stop Saying “Biological Women”

We have to stop using the term “biological woman,” opined Riley Gaines, the former University of Kentucky swimmer in a recent speech to the Family Research Council, as reported by Ryan Foley in the Christian Post.

Gaines’ world was turned upside down just over a year ago when a 6’4″ male, who now identifies as a woman, was allowed to compete in an NCAA championship swimming event.

William Thomas, who had been swimming on the University of Pennsylvania men’s team, now known as Lia, tied Riley for 5th place in the women’s event. However, the NCAA officials were instructed to award Thomas the trophy.

Riley also shared that neither her or her fellow swimmers consented to Thomas undressing in the ladies locker room “equipped with and exposing his male genitalia.” She said they were more than “uncomfortable,” they felt “violated.”

As a Christian myself, I know why this is happening,” she said. “It’s entirely spiritual warfare. It really is no longer a battle of right versus wrong or good versus bad. It’s moral versus evil.”

Riley further said this is an example of “denying objective truth, which she called the “most basic of truths,” as “the essence of humanity,” that there are men and women. To deny it, you might as well deny that “the sky is blue.”

In addition Gaines took exception to using the term “biological women.”

“We cannot refer to ourselves as biological anything. That’s admitting that there’s an unbiological alternative and there’s not. There is man and there is woman. There is male and there is female,” she asserted as the crowd erupted into applause. “There is girl and there is boy and there is mother and there is father. … This idea that we can change what God created us to be is beyond absurd.”

The courage of Riley Gaines is to be commended, speaking out in the face of intense criticism, abuse, and threats. I don’t know her religious affiliation, but she is speaking Biblical Truth.

The Bible says that in the beginning God “created them male and female” (Gen. 1:27). This is repeated in Genesis 5:2. Furthermore, Jesus Christ affirmed only two genders when he said, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? (Matt. 19:4).

Our culture disagrees with Jesus.

While gender confusion is apparently real in a small percentage of cases, this dysfunction does not discount or dismiss the truth. The reality that God made only two genders. It seems incredible that this issue even needs to be discussed and debated.

The perplexity regarding gender by otherwise intelligent politicians, professionals, pundits, parents, and even a few preachers reminds us of Paul’s pronouncement of the perversity and depravity of the Gentile world “professing to be wise, they became fools” (Rom. 1:22).

Our cultural craziness has now reached the absurd as facebook now recognizes 58 “gender options” and three preferred pronouns.

A recent Gallup poll found “a record high 50% of Americans rate the overall state of moral values in the U.S. as ‘poor’ and another 37% say it is only ‘fair.’” This battle is just another example of our cultural decline. You have to wonder, what’s next?

Conservative columnist Cal Thomas was right when he wrote, “when wheels come off a vehicle it loses control. When norms are no longer norms for a nation it is evidence of decline.”

In a society where anything and everything is not only accepted, but celebrated the words of G. K. Chesterton ring true. “Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.”

Or in the words of the late Fulton J. Sheen: “America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance — it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nearly so overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded.”

–Ken Weliever, The Preacherman