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Gender Ideology is Wrong: There Are Only Two Sexes

Anti-scientific gender theory holds that human sexuality is a glorious “gender spectrum,” a veritable rainbow of possibilities.

One can find seemingly scientific books and articles making this case here, here, here, here and here.

But a new article published in the esteemed Archives of Sexual Behavior explains why such talk is bunk. Entitled “Why There are Exactly Two Sexes,” it is authored by evolutionary biologist Colin Wright. Evolutionists, after all, have a keen interest in what male and female are, and how both cooperate to pass DNA down through the generations.

Wright explains that science defines male and female in their reproductive function. The very first line of his article states, “Across anisogamous species, the existence of two – and only two – sexes has been a settled matter in modern biology.”

“The sexes – male and female – refer to these two distinct reproductive strategies in anisogamous species. Males are defined as the sex that produces numerous small gametes (sperm). Females, conversely, are defined as the sex that yields fewer but larger gametes (ova),” Wright correctly states.

Of course, this long established view is supported by other scholars. Wright explains, “Because sperm and ova are the only two gamete classes in anisogamous systems, there are only two sexes.” As such, “This gametic dimorphism underlies biologists’ reference to sex as a ‘binary.’”

Such a basic biological definition might seem obvious to most people, but Wright explains “the societal and ethical stakes are also significant.” Gender theory has infamously defined male and female away into oblivion. Wright says this is driven by unscientific, ideological dogma. “Proposals to redefine sex in terms of karyotypes, secondary sexual characteristics, behavior, or other correlates are incoherent and invariably presuppose this foundation, because the categories ‘male’ and ‘female’ are intelligible only by reference to sperm and ova.”

Wright is a secular evolutionary biologist. But just as this truth is reflected in science, it is also revealed in the wisdom of Scripture.

“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth” (Gen. 1:27-28, ESV).

Scripture tells us humanity is created in two forms – male and female – and each is the unique and deeply consequential image and likeness of God. God created male and female with many essential and distinct qualities, but the first command He gave them was to live out their sex-distinct procreative nature. In this way, we become cooperators with God as life-givers.

And this is precisely why the truth and beauty of male and female are being so viciously attacked today by the evil one. He knows what they mean. Christians must as well.

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Olympics Set to Keep Men Out of Women’s Sports

The International Olympic Committee finally moved to protect women’s sports with a new policy that will prohibit males from competing in women’s events in the Olympic Games.

The Times of London first reported the news, following an IOC meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland.

“The International Olympic Committee is set to announce a ban on transgender women in female competition early next year after a science-based review of evidence about permanent physical advantages of being born male.”

The Times, of course, is mistaken in its terminology.

There are no “transgender women,” only sexually-confused males who use drugs, hormones and surgeries in a misguided attempt to appear like women.

IOC President Kirsty Coventry led the charge to safeguard Olympic female athletes, announcing after her election in March 2025 “that a task force of scientists and international federations would be set up within weeks to come up with a new [transgender and intersex] policy,” The Guardian reported.

Coventry explained that new scientifically-based IOC guidelines are needed to protect women’s sports.

“It was very clear from the members that we have to protect the female category, first and foremost. We have to do that to ensure fairness. And we have to do it with a scientific approach.”

Last week, task force member Dr. Jane Thornton, IOC health, medicine and science department director, gave an initial report to IOC members about male athlete’s physical advantages.

“Sources said the presentation by Thornton, a Canadian former Olympic rower, stated that scientific evidence showed there were physical advantages to being born male that remained with athletes, including those who had taken treatment to reduce testosterone levels,” as the Times reported.

The IOC first adopted guidelines paving the way for men to compete in women’s sports in 2015.

That guidance, from the “IOC Consensus Meeting on Sex Reassignment and Hyperandrogenism,” stated that a man must have declared his identity as a woman for at least four years and demonstrate testosterone levels below 10 nanomoles per liter for at least 12 months before their first competition.

But simply lowering testosterone doesn’t transform a man into a woman, and lower testosterone doesn’t change male advantages in sports: greater lung capacity and heart size; larger, heavier bones and muscles; and different hip and leg structures. 

New guidelines, released in 2021, passed the buck to international governing bodies that oversee various sports, allowing them to set their own policies on “transgender” athletes.

This led to the debacle in the 2024 Paris Olympics where two males, Algeria’s Imane Khelif and Taiwan’s Lin Yu-Ting won gold medals in women’s boxing. Both were born with rare disorders of sexual development that made them appear female at birth.

But Khelif and Yu-Ting  have XY chromosomes that triggered male puberty, giving them distinct physical advantages over the women they pummeled.

Despite lies from transgender activists and their allies, everyone knows that males and females are physiologically different, with testosterone giving males competitive advantages in sports.

Men’s bodies are different from women’s. This means that men, in general, can out-compete women. That’s why we’ve always had separate sports categories for men and women.

Even if a man believes he’s a woman, he competes in sports with his male body. Women have been injured by men playing their sport, and men who do so steal opportunities, titles, records and victories from women.

The Daily Citizen is glad that the IOC is finally choosing reality over propaganda and false ideology and is moving to protect women’s sports.

It’s about time.

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University of California Schools: Students Must Bow to ‘Transgender’ Ideology

University of California schools are using sexual harassment and anti-discrimination training to force students and staff to affirm “transgender” ideology.

Young America’s Foundation first reported that mandatory training at the University of California, San Diego, required students to agree that sexually confused individuals should be allowed to use opposite sex bathrooms based on their “gender identity.”

According to YAF, students must bow down to transgender dogma, or they are blocked from taking classes.

The online program is called SHAPE – Sexual Harassment, Anti-Discrimination, Prevention and Education. It consists of a 60-75 minute training with a quiz at the end of the course.

As YAF explained, UC San Diego students were required “to agree the following scenario constitutes a ‘hostile environment.”

My name is Mona and I am transgender. My classmate Jane continues to call me James, which was my name before I transitioned. Jane refers to me as a man, and complains when I use the women’s restroom. I’ve asked her to stop but she does not. I feel very disrespected and want this to stop. What type of prohibited conduct can this be?

When students choose “Hostile Environment” as the correct answer, SHAPE explains that students must adhere to transgender ideology.

“Hostile Environment may be created when someone demands that others use a particular bathroom that does not correspond to their gender identity or uses the incorrect pronoun.

“Intentionally calling someone their name used prior to transition, as opposed to their lived name, is called dead-naming; and may be a form of sexual harassment.”

In other words, disagreeing with any aspect of transgender ideology creates a hostile environment.

But of course, this is simply speaking biological truth. One would think research universities, with their heavy emphasis on science, would know this.

The UC system violates first amendment rights by forcing students to use speech they disagree with, mandating acquiescence to beliefs that many people of faith reject, and censoring clear scientific thinking about sex and biology.

California Family Council (CFC), a Focus on the Family ally, detailed the origins of the training.

The University of California Office of the President states that SHAPE was “developed by UC Online in partnership with the Systemwide Office of Civil Rights,” and integrates directly with each campus’s online learning system to ensure full participation.

Campuses, including UC San Diego, UC Davis, UC Merced, UC Santa Cruz, UCLA, UC Berkeley, and UC Irvine, have all implemented the program.

CFC described the consequences for students who don’t agree with transgender dogma/

“According to UC Irvine, training is mandatory by the Office for Civil Rights at the University of California, Office of the President, to fulfill state law.

“Every student must earn a 100% score on the final quiz to pass. Failure to complete the program results in a registration hold, preventing enrollment for the next semester.”

Several UC schools, including Santa Cruz and Santa Barbara, use the training to show they are complying with Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972.

“No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any educational program or activity receiving federal financial assistance,” federal law states.

The state of California – and the UC system – make a mockery of Title IX by redefining biological sex to include the spurious concept of “gender identity.” One is an objective fact, the other a baseless belief system.

UC schools allow males to usurp women’s rights, robbing women of educational opportunities, sports victories, scholarships, privacy and safety.

“Once regarded as centers of critical thinking and open debate, these institutions are now conditioning students to affirm a narrow, politicized definition of truth,” CFC opined.

The organization encouraged students to stand up to the UC system’ denial of reality and censorship of opposing voices.

“However, do not let indoctrination training like this silence your voice. Refuse to submit to any authority that demands you compromise biblical conviction or deny biological truth. Instead, stand up and fight alongside the California Family Council.”

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Supreme Court Considers Florida Parental Rights Case

On Nov. 7, the U.S. Supreme Court will consider taking up a landmark case that could redefine the meaning of parental rights in public education. The case, Littlejohn v. School Board of Leon County, has the potential to impact every classroom in the United States.

Background

The case involves a middle school student in Florida. Parents allege school officials met privately with their 13-year-old daughter to discuss “gender identity” and created a “gender support plan” against their wishes and without informing them.

According to the lawsuit, staff were allowed to withhold information if a student requested confidentiality. Parents claim the school violated their constitutional right to direct the upbringing of their child under the 14th Amendment.

Legal History

Florida district court and the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed the case.

Both courts applied the “shock-the-conscience” test – a standard of review that requires proof of school officials acting with the intent to harm in order to find wrongdoing – and held that the school’s actions did not meet that threshold.

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals reasoned,

Defendants did not act with intent to injure. To the contrary, they sought to help the child. Under these circumstances, even if the Littlejohns felt that Defendants’ efforts to help their child were misguided or wrong, the mere fact that the school officials acted contrary to the Littlejohns’ wishes does not mean that their conduct “shocks the conscience” in a constitutional sense.

In September, the Littlejohns filed their petition with the Supreme Court to review the decision. The Court has scheduled a conference to discuss the case for Friday, Nov. 7.

Constitutional Question

Here’s what at stake: if school officials can infringe on fundamental rights of parents protected in the U.S. Constitution.

The Littejohns argue that parental rights are fundamental and require the Court to apply the highest level of review, strict scrutiny, as it would with other core constitutional rights.

Impact

A ruling in favor of the Littlejohns could solidify constitutional protections for parental rights nationwide on the growing issue of school officials transitioning students without parental involvement.

If the Court decides to take the case this term, there is good reason to believe that the Court would protect parental rights.

As previously reported by the Daily Citizen, the Supreme Court decided not to take a similar Colorado parental rights case. In a short statement, Justice Samuel Alito made it clear that the case raised very serious questions about parental rights.

“The troubling – and tragic – allegations in this case underscore the ‘great and growing national importance’ of the question that these parent petitioners present.”

The Daily Citizen will continue to follow this case.

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Detransitioner Finds Faith, Realizes, ‘I Will Always Be a Female’

A young New Zealander, Issy, recently went public to tell her story of growing up with sexual identity confusion and being irreparably damaged by “transgender” ideology and medical procedures.

Only when she turned to God, learning that He loved and accepted her, and embraced her true identity as a woman, did she find peace and healing.

Issy recounted her story in a video from Family First New Zealand, “The Untold Stories of Kiwi ‘Detransitioners’ – Meet Issy.”

It’s a powerful story of a troubled girl’s journey toward grace and redemption.

Family First NZ, led by Bob McCoskrie, is a fierce advocate for families, marriage, life and freedom. The Christian organization proclaims the truth that there are only two sexes, male and female, and transgender ideology and medical procedures have brought terrible harms to many young people.

Issy is one of the first young women in New Zealand to publicly share her journey into the darkness of transgenderism – and out again, through faith in God.

In the video, Issy described what it was like growing up and thinking of herself as a boy.

“I always had friends that were boys, and I did all the boy things. It wasn’t until I was age 11, when I started going through puberty, that I realized that I wasn’t, and I faced the reality of what my gender was, and I played the part and just became as feminine as possible,” she said.

In high school, Issy became a satanist. She struggled with anxiety, self-hatred and clinical depression.

Then, in college, she joined an LGBT club, meeting “people who were living as transgender.”

She attempted to make herself look more masculine. After one visit to a doctor, another visit to an endocrinologist and a third visit to a psychologist, Issy was prescribed testosterone.

Not one doctor told her that hating her femininity and longing to be male were not normal or healthy.

“I grew a beard; I got a deep voice. My period stopped. There was more sweat. I could make muscle easily. All the stuff I wanted,” Issy told McCoskrie.

But this didn’t help the underlying issues – her depression remained.

Issy explained that in New Zealand, the process of receiving damaging transgender medical interventions happened very quickly.

“I transitioned at 19, going on 20, and then I had top surgery when I was 21 and a hysterectomy when I was 22.”

Doctors removed perfectly healthy organs from her body.

Her decision to try to live as a man led to conflict with her family and LGBT activists encouraged her to cut off her family if they wouldn’t accept and celebrate her “transition.”

But, as she explained to McCoskrie, that’s not the whole story.

I failed to be understanding about how they would have been feeling. I was just told by the queer community I was part of, that they don’t accept me, so you must cut them off. They can’t be in your life anymore.

But looking back, … I believe that was a failure on my part. I should have been understanding with my family. They were grieving the loss of a daughter. I just should have been more understanding in how they would have been feeling in that, which I didn’t.

She realized the injurious chemical and surgical interventions didn’t bring peace or help her build lasting, healthy relationships.

A turning point came when Issy found faith and recognized, “I will never be a male. I will always be female.”

“And there was power in acknowledging it and accepting that. And I came to this realization with  peace and love. It was then when I decided that I should detransition. It’s like my mind and my feelings finally agreed with my biology,” she added.

At one point, she doubted whether God would accept her. But she asked Him to “send someone to me.”

God intervened in a powerful, miraculous way at a Christian rally.

“I saw this butch looking woman … in the prayer and worship area, and I just found it curious, and I wondered if she was Christian or whatever. … I was literally leaving and then she was standing right in front of me.”

She handed Issy a book and said, “It’s my testimony. I want you to read it.”

The woman asked if she could tell Issy something, and then whispered in her ear, “Come as you are.”

All my fears, worries, concerns dropped to the ground in that moment. And I just started crying because that’s exactly what I needed, exactly what I was like looking for.

And I told her as I was crying, “I’m a transgender. I’ve been like thinking about this, worrying about this.”

And she points to her book and says, “Look, gender confusion.”

And literally on the title of her book, it said Gender Confusion.

“It’s been a healing journey. My life has been a healing journey. And I feel like I’ve finally reached the point of fully loving myself, my true self, loving the way I am, for me,” Issy described the road she traveled.

Issy found that the Gospel offers what we long for: God loves and accepts us as just as we are.

But at the same time, we are all desperately broken sinners. And the Gospel also offers what we need: God’s grace and power bring forgiveness for our sins, healing to our brokenness, and transformation of our lives.

Focus on the Family exists to help families, and that includes help navigating transgenderism. Focus offers a free, one-time counseling consultation with a licensed or pastoral counselor. To request a counseling consultation, call 1-855-771-HELP (4357) or fill out our Counseling Consultation Request Form.

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