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The “trans” bathroom wars have reached Capitol Hill, courtesy of Delaware’s newly elected “Sarah” McBride – the first “transgender” person to the House of Representatives

On Monday, Representative Nancy Mace introduced a bill that would require members of Congress to use restrooms associated with their biological sex.

“Sarah McBride doesn’t get a say. I mean, this is a biological man. McBride does not belong in women’s spaces, women’s bathrooms, locker rooms, changing rooms, period, full stop.”

Nancy Mace is exactly right.

Elected Sarah McBride, the 34-year-old is currently serving as a member of Delaware’s General Assembly.

Born Tim McBride in 1990, the young man announced to his parents in college that he was “trans” – and has assumed this confused identity ever since.

Pressed on Tuesday about Rep. Mace’s bill, Speaker Mike Johnson stated:

“We welcome all members with open arms who are newly elected representatives of the people. I believe it’s a command. We treat all persons with dignity and respect.”

He then added:

“And I’m not going to engage in silly debates about this. There’s a concern about the uses of restroom facilities and locker rooms and all that. This is an issue that Congress has never had to address before. We’re going to do that in a deliberate fashion with members’ consensus on it, and we will accommodate the needs of every single person.”

Later in the day Speaker Johnson spoke again to reporters and stated:

“Let me be unequivocally clear. A man is a man and a woman is a woman. And a man cannot become a woman.”

Media continues to describe McBride as a “transgender woman” – a designation that actually doesn’t even exist.

Despite all claims to the contrary, there are two sexes – male and female.

We read in Genesis, “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them” (Genesis 1:27). 

Yet scroll any secular news article or watch any news report today about this McBride controversy, and you’re likely to be told otherwise.

Every major news outlet readily refers to McBride as “she” or “her” – and only because the newly elected representative claims to be a woman.

Responding to the escalating controversy, McBride tweeted:

“This is a blatant attempt from far right-wing extremists to distract from the fact that they have no real solutions to what Americans are facing.”

Of course, the only attempt being made here is to report reality – and protect women from men who are pretending to be women.

America is hungry for leaders who speak the truth, who are unafraid to offend, unwilling to go along with lies and make believe.

We pray for wisdom and strength of conviction for members of Congress as they navigate this tragic incident of sexual confusion.

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Transgender activists and their allies have claimed all of November as Transgender Awareness Month. They’ve also staked out November 20 as Transgender Day of Remembrance.

But with recent events, it’s clear that many Americans have grown weary of the activism and are pushing back against gender ideology.

In addition to the whole of November, the week leading up to the Day of Remembrance, November 13-20, has been designated Transgender Awareness Week, which seems kinda redundant since LGBT activists have already staked out the whole month.

It seems triple or quadruple redundant (is that a thing?) because advocates designated October as LGBT History Month and gender idealogues already celebrated Transgender Day of Visibility earlier this year, on March 31.

That’s not even counting the myriad other awareness days, weeks and months proclaimed by LGBT groups. Pretty sure we’re all aware by now.

Parents should know, in particular, that schools with radical agendas use these days, weeks and months to promote and teach gender ideology to children.

We have deep compassion and concern for those caught up in sexual identity confusion, especially those whose dysphoria is fueled by trauma, sexual abuse and other mental health issues. We want those struggling with this confusion to get appropriate counseling, prayer and healing.

But we don’t what this ideology pushed on us and our families at every turn.

This includes many who identify as lesbian or gay – like the group Gays Against Groomers – even though the gay pride movement helped usher in this era of transgender activism.

Here are just a few recent indicators the transgender juggernaut is losing power and momentum and Americans are fighting for truth against this false ideology.

Americans are upset about damaging, sterilizing medical interventions on confused children.

• Twenty-one states have voted to protect minors from harmful, dangerous transgender interventions such as puberty blockers, opposite-sex hormones and mutilating surgeries.

• Frequently, laws protecting minors are challenged in court, but several courts have ruled in favor of these laws. Most recently, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an Indiana law safeguarding children. The court said, “Indiana’s voters have decided, through their representatives, legislative and executive, that medical interventions are too risky and novel to be safe treatments for children with gender dysphoria.”

• More than a dozen detransitioners have sued doctors and clinics for irreparably hurting their bodies with experimental and destructive medical procedures. Women like Chloe Cole, Kayla Lovdahl, Prisha Mosley and Soren Aldaco have filed suits alleging they suffered physical and psychological harms from these treatments.

Americans don’t want men playing women’s sports.

• In October, The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board published an opinion piece, “Transgender Sports Is a 2024 Sleeper Issue.” The Journal explained many people oppose “having progressive cultural values imposed on them. That includes compelling their daughters to compete against athletes who were born male.”
  
  The editorial board noted three senators, Ohio’s Sherrod Brown, Montana’s Jon Tester and Wisconsin’s Tammy Baldwin were all under fire in the 2024 election because of their support for boys playing in girls sports. Brown went on to lose by almost 4% and Tester lost by 7%. Baldwin won a tough race by a slim margin of less than 1% of the vote.
  
• San Jose State University has received incredible blowback over a transgender-identified player, Blaire Fleming, on the women’s volleyball team. Starting setter and co-captain Brooke Slusser has been outspoken about the danger to female athletes and joined a lawsuit against the NCAA for its transgender policy. Associate head coach Melissa Batie-Smoose was suspended after she filed a Title IX complaint against the Mountain West Conference, and Women’s volleyball teams at five universities have now chosen to forfeit six times rather than play the school.
  
  More recently, Outkick reported, “A dozen women have filed a lawsuit against the Mountain West Conference and its commissioner, along with officials at San Jose State University.” The suit alleges “violations of Title IX and of their First Amendment rights” for allowing a male to play for San Jose State.

Americans are disturbed by continued privacy and safety issues from boys and men in women-only private spaces. 

• The Ohio Legislature approved SB104, a measure that requires schools to maintain single-sex bathrooms and private spaces. If signed by the governor, it will be the 14th state to protect children in K-12 schools. Six of those states require single-sex spaces in other government buildings.

• More and more people who know there are only two sexes are speaking out about men who harm women in restrooms, prisons and locker rooms. Fox News reported on a man who was “transferred out of women’s prison after being indicted on 2 rape counts.” Reddux published an article, “Trans-Identified Male Inmate Who Impregnated Two Women at Female Prison”; the prisoner helped another prisoner, who murdered a woman, to also be transferred to a women’s facility.  

Transgender issues resonated with many American voters and played a part in the 2024 election. One of the most effective political advertisements for President-elect Donald Trump showed Vice President Harris supporting taxpayer-funded transgender surgeries for prisoners and “letting biological men compete against girls in their sports.” The ad concluded with this message, “Kamala is for they/them. President Trump is for you.”

Stemming the tide of transgenderism won’t be easy. We may win legislative and political battles, but only broad cultural change will win the war.

Gender ideology is rooted in deep cultural beliefs, including our notions about what it means to be human, the belief that our sex doesn’t define us – we define ourselves, and thinking our deepest identity comes from sexual attractions, thoughts, feelings and behaviors.

Transgender ideology stems from post-modern thinking, which says there are no ultimate truths. It comes from Gnosticism, with its deep detachment from physical reality and beliefs that only the mind or spirit are important – the body doesn’t matter. This dogma is grounded in Marxist beliefs that society is divided into oppressors and oppressed. And it’s rooted in the belief that gender dysphoria can’t be healed but must be accommodated by hormonal and surgical interventions.

We may win some battles, but unless these deep-seated falsehoods are defeated by the truth, this sexual confusion, and the devastation it brings, will remain in American culture.

Related articles and resources:

Activist Group WPATH Influences Judgment in Case of Prisoner Receiving Trans Surgery

Are Sex and Gender Different Things?

Huge Title IX Win: Department of Education’s 2021 Interpretation Ruled ‘Unlawful’

Dr. Jordan Peterson, Notre Dame and the Upside-Down World of Culture

Meta to Decide Whether “Misgendering” Is Hate Speech

Texas Children’s Hospital Embroiled in Fraud Scandal as Haim Case Kicks Off

Olympic Women’s Boxing Champ is Officially a Man

What Are Male and Female in God’s Story?

Why a Trans Woman is a Not a Woman

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