The Most Important Truth in Trump’s Joint Speech to Congress Last Night

In his joint address to Congress last night, President Trump said many important things that have massive implications. The most consequential thing for our age is when he declared for America, “Our message to every child in America is that you are perfect exactly the way God made you.”

That was undergirded by this foundational human truth, “I signed an order making it the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders: male and female.”

To this, he added, America will be “forever ending the lie that any child is trapped in the wrong body.” He noted, “This is a big lie.”

He is correct. You can see this short segment of his speech here:

These statements by President Trump were his most important utterances all evening because they are strong, truthful corrections to demonic lies that have infiltrated so much of our culture and too many of our children today. And they came forcefully and unapologetically from the leader of the free world. That is no small thing.

This is more than a vibe shift. It is a major shift toward the essential truth of the goodness of God, what it means to be human and why the family matters in the world today.

President Trump told the world last night that God’s image in each one of us as male and female is a treasured gift. It is something to be valued and protected in each child. The culture has been telling our children that God plays tricks on them by putting them in the wrong body. Too many youth now believe their feelings are more true than God’s very good design.

President Trump also said it is now the policy of the United States that there are only two sexes, male and female. This is not just some “own-the-libs” angle on an ideological, culture war skirmish. It corrects a very damaging anti-scientific and godless view of what it means to be human. We cannot define humanity nor the human person if we do not know what male and female are.

Likewise, we cannot speak sensibly about the family if we cannot speak truthfully about male and female. This fact is of utmost importance to us here at Focus on the Family because we are a family advocacy organization founded on and defended by a Christian worldview.

Why does this matter?

One of the first facts of creation is that male and female are a part of the very image and likeness of God in creation.

“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).

No other part of God’s vast creation holds this divine distinction. No Christian can miss this truth: Attacks on the nature of male and female are nothing less than attacks on the very image and likeness of God. Every Christian must therefore be passionate about defending the image and likeness of God. They must be passionate about defending the truth and beauty of male and female.

It is very clear. Christians have no real choice but to be fierce defenders of what it means to be woman and man, girl and boy, male and female.

It is the truth, beauty and wonder of male and female that creates each family. Reader, you exist, regardless of your belief system, culture, or worldview, because you are the fruit of a male and female union, hopefully from a married mother and father. This is the first universal truth about humanity that all cultures celebrate. It is what we honor at every birthday celebration.

The confusion this pernicious gender ideology has foisted upon the world challenges each of these beautiful truths. Donald Trump is the first major world leader to surgically attack so many of these deceptively destructive lies, and to do so forcefully.

Feel however you might about his other policies and practices; he is to be praised for his bold, truthful leadership.

Additional Resources

Why Focus on the Family Cares About the Gender Issue?

Yes, Sexuality and Gender Are Undeniable Gospel Issues

New Gallup Poll Shows the Incoherence of ‘LGBTQ+’ Fiction

Here’s What Happens When Good People Don’t Connect Gay and Trans Ideology

What Does it Mean to Be Trans, Anyway?

Why Christians Can’t Avoid the “Trans” and Gender Redefinition Issue

How the “Trans” and Gender Redefinition Issue Attacks the Family

Why the ‘LGBT Person’ and ‘LGBT Community’ Don’t Really Exist

How to Respond to “Trans” and Gender Ideology? Simple: Live Not by Lies

How the Binary in ‘LGBTQ+’ Reveals Its Utter Incoherence

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