{"id":10909,"date":"2017-07-26T16:16:03","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T15:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=10909"},"modified":"2025-06-27T11:23:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T10:23:46","slug":"choose-gender-uk-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/choose-gender-uk-government\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Choose your gender’ says UK Government"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rt Hon Justine Greening, MP for Putney, has proposed a ‘choose your gender bill’.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

People will be allowed to choose their gender if the UK Government gets its way.<\/p>\n

Change gender ‘at will’<\/h2>\n

The Independent reports<\/a><\/strong>: \u00a0‘Under plans being considered by ministers, adults will be able to change their birth certificates at will without a doctor\u2019s diagnosis, while non-binary gender people will be able to record their gender as \u201cX\u201d.’<\/p>\n

The paper says: ‘Changes to the law will be consulted on and\u00a0will ultimately be included in a planned Gender Recognition Bill, set to be published in the autumn.’<\/p>\n

In stark contrast, just before we went to press, President Trump announced a ban on transgender personnel in the US military, citing ‘the need to focus on victory’, the Washington Post reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

And then, according to RT<\/a><\/strong>, in true ‘couldn’t make it up mode’,\u00a0Rear Admiral Alex Burton<\/a><\/strong>, commander UK Maritime Forces, tweeted: \u00a0‘As a Royal Navy LGBT champion and senior warfighter I am so glad we are not going this way.’ \u00a0As one of those you would be glad, Admiral. \u00a0But as a husband and father you should know better.<\/p>\n

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‘This is a choice’<\/h2>\n

Education and Equalities Secretary Justine Greening announced the move as MPs set off for their summer recess last Friday. \u00a0Just days before, Jeremy Corbyn urged the Conservatives to allow <\/span>people to ‘self-identify’. \u00a0The fiftieth anniversary of legalising sodomy also appears to have influenced the timing. \u00a0The Queen gave her\u00a0Royal Assent to the\u00a0Sexual Offences Act on 27th July 1967.<\/p>\n

The Labour manifesto included plans for self-identification. \u00a0The Conservatives’ did not. \u00a0Nor did June’s Queen\u2019s Speech include a Gender Recognition Bill. \u00a0It is safe to say that had the Tories included such a divisive measure they would have lost the election.<\/p>\n

According to RT<\/a><\/strong>, Miss Greening ‘told Sky News on Sunday the state needs to \u201cstop treating people changing their gender as if it\u2019s some medical problem that needs fixing. Actually this is a choice that people are making and we need to try and make that choice more straightforward than it already is.\u201d’<\/p>\n

Suzanna Hopwood, a member of the sodomy advocacy group Stonewall’s Trans Advisory Group, agrees. \u00a0‘It is \u201c<\/em>vital\u201d the reform removes the requirement for medical evidence and an intrusive interview panel,’ she said. \u00a0Miss Hopwood went on to describe the current system as ‘demeaning and broken.’\u00a0 (‘Broken’ is a fashionable word with which to criticise Government policy or a state department’s handling of something.)<\/p>\n

‘Still a long way to go’<\/h2>\n

A follow-up article in the Indy<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0shows Prime Minister Theresa May as wholly supportive. \u00a0She said \u201cwhen it comes to rights and protections for trans people, there is still a long way to go\u201d. \u00a0Her predecessor, David Cameron, rode ‘gay marriage’ roughshod over his party’s opposition. \u00a0He even boasted about it in his resignation speech<\/p>\n

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Mary Douglas speaking about the choose gender farce on BBC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But Tory activist Mary Douglas of Grassroots Conservatives strongly disagreed. \u00a0Speaking on Radio 4\u2019s Today programme, she said she was ‘very concerned’ about the move. \u00a0‘In my view it should not be easy to do something as massive as change your gender,’ she said. \u00a0‘And the law is there to protect us, normally from other people, but also sometimes from ourselves. I think many people have profound concerns about this.’<\/span><\/p>\n

She went on: \u00a0‘It is profoundly unconservative. \u00a0Conservative with a big C and small C implies continuity with what has gone before.’ \u00a0She was asked if Miss Greenings’ own self-declared homosexuality had anything to do with the announcement. \u00a0Mrs Douglas replied: ‘It\u2019s a possibility.’ \u00a0She continued: ‘But I\u2019m not going to suggest anything I don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t know Justine personally at all but the bigger issue here is not who is … considering introducing this policy, but the implications of the policy itself.’<\/p>\n

‘They are deeply troubled’<\/h2>\n

The liberal Huffington Post reports<\/a><\/strong> activists were up in arms about further comments from Mrs Douglas. \u00a0They took particular exception to her suggestion that those with gender dysphoria have mental or emotional problems.<\/p>\n

Mrs Douglas asked: ‘If somebody thinks they have a mismatch between how they think and the way their body is, the question is: which should be changed?’<\/span><\/p>\n

Answering her own question, she said: ‘<\/span>What\u2019s interesting is that many people who have gender dysphoria also have other mental health conditions like depression or drug addiction. They are deeply troubled and it has been proven that when they change their gender, that doesn\u2019t solve those issues.’<\/span><\/p>\n

Activists called her ‘rude’, ‘bigoted’, insensitive’, ‘old-fashioned’ and even ‘disgraceful.’ \u00a0Crucially, no-one appears to have put together a coherent response to show she was wrong.<\/p>\n

The practicalities<\/h2>\n

We need to be very clear about why Christians need to oppose this measure. \u00a0Just at a practical level, it means that anyone can just decide to be the opposite gender to the one they were born with. \u00a0They will need no evidence. \u00a0Just their word will do. \u00a0In no other area would we accept someone’s word against scientific evidence. \u00a0The evidence here is that of simple genetics.<\/p>\n

The proposal is a voyeurs’ charter, allowing men to visit ladies’ toilets and dressing rooms. \u00a0They will also absurdly be able to compete in athletics events this time against proper women. \u00a0We could be seeing the beginning of the end of women’s sport. \u00a0Sadly, in today’s post-truth world, being ridiculous will not stop this preposterous measure being enacted.<\/p>\n

Additionally, the move will give a further push to the already-rolling transgender bandwagon. \u00a0More children will start deciding they are ‘in the wrong body’. \u00a0Shockingly, teachers and social workers have been encouraging such children. \u00a0Doctors too are prescribing powerful hormones to adolescent children to delay or block the onset of\u00a0puberty. \u00a0Medicine is intended to cure. \u00a0Puberty blockers harm. \u00a0Sadly, medicine is not free of charlatans. \u00a0Surgeons too are ready to mutilate people’s God-given bodies into what they think they should be. \u00a0Some, as Mrs Douglas implied, will regret it.<\/p>\n

Adults are meant to safeguard children from bad decisions. \u00a0But instead, authority figures are taking vicarious delight in these wrong-headed childish decisions. \u00a0 They are perpetrating\u00a0child abuse. \u00a0Some school or local authority, in a few years’ time, is going to be sued.<\/p>\n

Rebellion against God’s creation<\/h2>\n

Moreover, at a theological level, we need to recognise that transgenderism is far worse than sodomy, even than ‘gay marriage’. Homosexuality rebels against God’s institution of the family.<\/p>\n

The Bible records this moment in Genesis chapter 2:<\/p>\n

Gen 2:23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. 24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.<\/strong><\/p>\n

However, transsexuals and transgender apologists are in rebellion against creation itself. If we go back a chapter in Genesis, we find the chromosonal reality of the division of the sexes as an expression of God’s very image:<\/p>\n

Gen 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.<\/strong><\/p>\n

God decides your gender, not you. Our generation wants to spit in the face of God. \u00a0The church has to stand firm and proclaim the whole Gospel.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0economic and security dimension<\/h2>\n

This brings us to the economic and security dimension. When the UK voted to leave the European Union, all sides agreed our Parliament could now pass our own laws. The EU would not allow the UK that freedom. We expressed a hope that the UK would now repent and start to enact godly laws.<\/p>\n

Allowing self-determined gender choice was not and never will be in a list of godly laws.<\/p>\n

Accordingly, by enacting a measure in sheer defiance of God’s righteousness, our legislators are bringing even more of God’s judgment on us.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, with Brexit negotiations going on and Islamic extremists stalking the streets, we need all the economic and security blessings – and all the wisdom – the Almighty can bestow.<\/p>\n

Make no mistake, if our nation is doing well, we shall all be doing well. Moreover, Christian people want the best for those sad individuals caught up in gender dysphoria, for the nation’s children and for the country of which we are a temporal part. God’s words to the captives in Babylon still ring true:<\/p>\n

Jeremiah 29:7 And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meetings<\/h2>\n

This author is happy to visit any gathering to speak on these issues. Ring 01994 484544 to arrange a date.<\/p>\n

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