Introductory Information: Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan is probably one of the most conservative colleges or universities in the United States. They do not accept any kind of funding from the government. Each month they publish a paper called Imprimis which contains great information, usually about what is going on in our country, politically, culturally, socially, etc. Their September 2023 (Volume 52, Number 9) was about the transgender movement which is taking place in our country. The article was by Christopher F. Rufo who is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal. He received a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service degree from Georgetown University and a Master of Liberal Arts in Extension Studies degree from Harvard University. The article below contains quotes from this publication about what is happening in our country with regard to the transgender movement. Anyone who is concerned about what is happening in our country would benefit by subscribing to this publication. Their address is: Hillsdale College 33 E. College St., Hillsdale, MI 49242.
Inside the Transgender Empire
He begins the article by saying, “Most publicly, activist teachers are using classrooms to propagandize on its behalf and activist health professional are promoting the mutilation of children under the euphemistic banner of ‘gender-affirming care.’” He goes on to show that this is a planned attack.
He explains, “In the late 1980s, a group of academics, including Judith Butler, Gayler Rubin, Sandy Stone, and Susan Stryker, established the disciplines of ‘queer theory’ and ‘transgender studies.’ These academics believed gender to be a ‘social construct’ used to oppress racial and sexual minorities, and they denounced the traditional categories of man and woman as a false binary that was conceived to support the system of ‘heteronormativity’ – i.e. the white, male, heterosexual power structure. This system, they argued, had to be ruthlessly deconstructed. And the best way to achieve this, they argued further, was to promote transgenderism. If men can become women, and women men, they believed, the natural structure of Creation could be toppled.”
Susan Stryker, a male-to-female transgender professor currently at the University of Arizona, revealed the general thrust and tone of transgender ideology in his Kessler Award Lecture at the City University of New York in 2008, describing his work as ‘a secular sermon that unabashedly advocates embracing a disruptive and refigurative genderqueer or transgender power as a spiritual resource for social and environmental transformation.’”
“Like many other things, it began with a flood of cash, as some of the wealthiest people in the country began devoting enormous sums of money to promote transgenderism. One of these people is Jennifer Pritzker, who was born James Pitzker in 1950…having inherited a sizable part of the Hyatt hotel fortune. In 2013, he announced a male-to-female gender transition and was celebrated in the press as the ‘first trans billionaire.’
“Pritzker’s cousin, Illinois Democrat Governor J. B. Pritzker, signed legislation in 2019, his first year in office, to inject gender theory into the state education curriculum and to direct state Medicaid funds toward transgender surgeries.” The article goes on to give an enormous amount of information on what this movement is doing to promote their philosophy.
According to most studies, transgenderism seems to be growing, but as was shown in last week’s Meditating on the Word, this is due to our society’s promotion of this idea by planting that seed of thought in the minds of young people. That is the greatest tool of those who want to promote transgenderism. “Additionally, in 2017, the YRBS, (Youth Risk Behavior Survey) a national survey of high school students, began asking respondents if they are transgender” (Williams Institute at UCLA). Again, this is a method of planting the seed of transgenderism in the mind of young adults (many of them are still children).
God and Transgenderism
Actually, this sub-title is a contradiction. God has nothing to do with transgenderism. Despite what the theories of so-called scientists say, God is the creator of males and females. There is no such thing as the evolution of man. Years ago, scientists were at least honest enough to call evolution a “theory.” A “theory” is a hypothesis which has not been proven. Now, so-called scientists have dropped the idea of the creation of life as a theory and teach it as fact. A theory cannot be called a fact unless it can be repeatedly reproduced, which of course is impossible with regard to the formation of life. The only scientific information about how men and women came into being is found in the Bible.
“Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being,” (Genesis 2:7). As for the creation of females, “So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place. The LORD God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man,” (Genesis 2:21-22). All people who have lived on the earth and who will live on the earth came from those two.
The Power of DNA
DNA is the acronym for deoxyribonucleic acid. Basically, every cell in our body has DNA. DNA determines everything about a living being, including what sex one is. No two people have the same DNA, even most identical twins do not have the same DNA. DNA determines one’s sex and that cannot be changed no matter what one is taught or believes or even if one has body parts changed or altered. DNA is a God-given cell structure that man cannot alter.
Those who are promoting transgenderism are trying to undo what God establishes when one is conceived in the womb. It is contrary to God’s design and if allowed to continue to be taught and practiced, would destroy the home and humanity. It is Satan’s present attack against God and the home.
Those who believe in God and His word must take a stand against this evil. If we do not speak out against this evil, our silence gives approval. As Martin Luther King has stated, “The church should be the conscience of the State.” May the church as a body and each individual Christian do all that each can do to defeat this destructive force of Satan!
Wayne Burger