RLL 50 Transmania

You're listening to Radio Looks Loose and I'm your host Steve Matthews. Thanks for joining me for episode 50. The title of today's episode is Transmania. Well I'm pretty pumped about this. This is episode 50 so I made it to the half-century mark and that's kind of exciting.

You know it's only taken me four years to do this. I first started the the whole podcasting thing back in in 2017 and well you know it's kind of slow going and it was a little bit like my blog writing.

You know I started writing a blog and in fact that was almost 12 years ago and I was kind of an indifferent writer for a long time. You know I'd write you know a post now and then. I might go months without writing another post and and it wasn't actually until I had done it for about five years or so, five and a half years, that I really kind of started to to take it a little bit more seriously and to start do it more regularly and and Lord willing I really hope that I can continue to do the the podcasting and the live streaming and all that more regularly.

Opening Banter and Technical Difficulties

So I wanted to say hi to everybody that's anybody who's watching out there on Twitter or DLive or YouTube. Thanks for joining me. I appreciate that and love having you here. And well let's get into well you know before I get into today's program we did want to mention one thing.

You know I was really excited today about a second thing not just about getting it having episode 50 here but it was the first day it actually felt kind of like spring. You know I was able to to get my bike out and and go riding and and the park I went to to there's a bike trail here locally in a park and I went there and my goodness I mean it was just mobbed.

It was about as full as I think I've ever seen it. You know you couldn't hardly find a parking place then when you got to get out to ride you had to spend all your time trying to dodge. You know there's families out there with little kids and pets and all of this type of thing and yeah I mean they were enjoying it as much as I was but it was a little bit crowded and I was kind of glad when I got past the trailhead and kind of got out into some of the the longer portions of trail and I was able to ride without so much having to dodge so many obstacles.

You know you really have to be careful when you get out there and in these these bike trails because there are pedestrians and I guess a lot of times little kids or you know dogs and this kind of thing and you really do have to be aware of what's going on around you so somebody doesn't get hurt.

But yeah it was a great time getting out and I really loved being able to get that bike out again and I hope I can do that on a regular basis here. So yeah that's that's always something to look forward to this time of year.

It's coming up on my birthday you know and always it kind of coincides with the very sort of beginnings of spring and so that's always a kind of a nice birthday present that I get every year. Now I am running a little bit late here again today.

In fact this is about as late as I think I've ever done this. It's about one o 'clock on a Sunday morning. I'm sitting here doing this podcast and actually started it. I had a couple of false starts here tonight.

I tried to to get this going and I ran into some technical difficulty. I was sitting here and I was actually going along pretty well. I had about 20 minutes of the program in line. I looked down on my digital recorder and it was was shut off and what I found out is I didn't have my power supply plugged in and it was running off battery and the batteries were were running low and the thing just shut off.

I'm sitting here talking I'm not even recording anything. I thought boy this is a great program it's going along great and I look down there's there's no nothing happening on my recorder. I'm like oh good grief I can't believe that I did that.

So anyway I've got it actually got it plugged in now so hopefully I'll be able to actually record a podcast and and get through this and make something good happen. So let's take a look at the topic of today.

Rachel Levine and the Senate Confirmation Hearing

You know I called this this Transmania and my inspiration for calling it that was something that took place this past week in the Senate. As you know Joe Biden is staffing in the process of staffing up his administration and with in the way that that works is there there are a number of positions these are sort of some of the top you know either cabinet level positions or positions just under the cabinet level that require a Senate confirmation.

And there was a particularly noteworthy Senate confirmation hearing that took place this last week that involved the Assistant Secretary for Health and the person who's been picked by Joe Biden to fill this this role is someone by the name of Rachel Levine.

Now Rachel Levine and I'm gonna go ahead and share the screen here let's do a little screen share okay so you should be able to see this this is an article from Revolver and and here's a picture and here's here's Rachel Levine here in the center.

Now when you when you look at at Rachel it's pretty obvious that Rachel was not originally named Rachel and and Rachel is is a dude in a blonde wig. I mean that that's what it comes down to he's he's a dude in a blonde wig and this is the person who is is supposed to be the the Assistant Secretary for Health.

So let's read a little bit here about what this article on Revolver has to say quote Rachel Levine is on the brink of becoming America's Assistant Secretary for Health. The notion is so facially absurd that it belongs in a cartoon or perhaps a Mike Judge movie.

Levine is an obese man who has pumped himself with hormones and possibly even mutilated himself in the belief that he is a woman. Now this is one of the things I appreciate about a lot of the articles on Revolver.

They don't give in to this this fantasy that that Rachel is a woman. I mean they make it very clear that he's a man. Now that's a very controversial thing to do depending on where you are you can get a lot of get in a lot of trouble for misgendering somebody.

You know if somebody identifies as a woman and you call him a man well you know you can can get you know maybe lose your job or certainly have you find yourself and the the object of the Twitter mob or something like this that that's almost like hate speech to say this type of thing.

But let's continue here so quote is Pennsylvania's Health Secretary he oversaw a COVID regime that like neighboring New York was both oppressive and ineffective with one of the nation's highest coronavirus death rates.

Levine himself of course pulled his mother out of the nursing home as the virus began to spread there end quote. So apparently you know he he was responsible kind of like what in Pennsylvania he was responsible I guess for carrying out a similar program to what what Andrew Cuomo did of sending all these these people with COVID back to nursing homes and then lots of people with in nursing homes got sick and died.

And apparently this Rachel Levine was carrying out a program like that but he made sure he got his own mother out you know so it's good you know you you know we can give COVID to your mother but my mother well I'm gonna protect I'm gonna protect her.

You know and of course this is just typical of the kind of arrogance that exists more and more in the the governing class in the United States where where they don't even try to hide their hypocrisy and and greed and arrogance I mean it's just on full display.

And the article continues quote disturbingly Levine's specific specialties are pediatrics and psychiatry in other words providing mental health assistance to vulnerable children. During his confirmation hearing on Thursday in front of the Senate Health Committee Levine refused to condemn the practice of giving sex changes to children.

When pressed by Senator Rand Paul Levine wouldn't even answer providing a robotic response that made his real sentiments obvious. I want to play a little bit here of this is a video of the the Senate confirmation hearings and if you're you're listening without the video here the first voice you're going to hear is Senator Rand Paul he's going to ask some questions of Levine and then you hear Levine respond and they go back and forth a couple times here so I'm gonna play this and then we'll comment on it once after a couple of three minutes here.

Dr. Levine.

You have supported both allowing minors to be given hormone blockers to prevent them from going through puberty as well as surgical destruction of a minor's genitalia. Like surgical mutilation hormonal interruption of puberty can permanently alter and prevent secondary sexual characteristics.

The American College of Pediatricians reports that eighty to ninety-five percent of prepubertal children with gender dysphoria will experience resolution by late adolescence if not exposed to medical intervention and social affirmation.

Dr. Levine do you believe that minors are capable of making such a.

Life-changing decision as changing one's sex? Well Senator thank you for your interest in this question. Transgender medicine is a very complex and nuanced field with robust research and standards of care that have been developed and if I am fortunate enough to be confirmed as the Assistant Secretary of Health I would look forward to working with you and your office and coming to your office and discussing the particulars of the standards of care for transgender.

Medicine. The specific question was about minors. Let's be a little more specific since you evaded the question. Do you support the government intervening to override the parents consent to give a child puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and or amputation surgery of breasts and genitalia?

You have said that you're willing to accelerate the protocols for street kids. I'm alarmed that poor kids with no parents who are homeless and distraught you would just go through this and allow that to happen to a minor.

I would hope that you would have compassion for Kyra Bell who's a 23 year old girl who was confused with her identity. At 14 she read on the internet about something about transsexuals. She thought well maybe that's what I am.

She ended up getting these puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, she had her breasts amputated. But here's what ultimately she says now and this is a very insightful from decision from someone who made a mistake but was led to believe this was a good thing by the medical community.

I made a brash decision as a teenager as a lot of teenagers do trying to find confidence and happiness except now the rest of my life will be negatively affected she said adding that the medicalized gender transitioning was a very temporary superficial fix for a very complex identity issue.

What I'm alarmed at is that you're not willing to say absolutely minors shouldn't be making decisions to amputate their breasts or to amputate their genitalia. For most of our history we believe that minors don't.

Have full rights. Okay I seem to have a little bit of problem with the feed there. I don't.

Know what's going on with the feed but anyway. I think you need to be involved so.

I'm alarmed that you won't say with certainty that minors should not have the ability to make the decision to take hormones that will affect them for the rest of their life. Will you make a more firm decision on whether or not minors.

Should be involved in these decisions? Senator transgender medicine is a very complex and nuanced field and if confirmed to the position of Assistant Secretary of Health I would certainly be pleased to come to your office and talk with you and your staff about the standards of care and the complexity of.

This field. Let it go into the record that the witness refused to answer the.

Question. Okay so there we go. Senator Paul asked a couple of pretty pointed questions especially the second question he asked Rachel Levine. He asked him do you support the government intervening to override the parents consent to give a child puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and or amputation surgery of breasts and genitalia?

And what did Rachel Levine answer with? Well he didn't even really address the question. He evaded the question gave some boilerplate pre-prepared statement and that was it. I mean and that tells you about everything you really need to know.

I mean apparently he really does believe that the government has the right to override the parents wishes and allow children to make some very destructive choices at a very young age. And he's fine with this.

I mean so you know these you know Levine and other folks like him they're coming for your kids. You know they want Big Brother to get involved in the family in a way that Big Brother has no business whatsoever being involved with it.

But they're pushing this and they're pushing this in a very I mean this is just destructive. It's astonishing. It's shocking. I guess maybe it shouldn't be shocking but but I still find it shocking you know that somebody like this is able to be considered for a high government position.

And in any sane society this man would not be anywhere near holding a government office of any sort. And yet here we go you know and he's about to be be installed as a pretty high-ranking official in the in Joe Biden's government.

The Rise of Transgenderism in American Culture

Now one other thing I wanted to note here is the article continues here. Let's read a bit more of it here. It says 50 years ago the cult of transgenderism didn't even exist. A mere 10 years ago is so obscure most Americans knew nothing about it.

Well yeah you know that's that's true. That's true. I mean I you know growing up I mean I never I mean I graduated high school in 1984. I never heard the term transgender. And it's really only been within the last few years that I've become aware of that at all.

I wasn't even really sure what it was. And you know it's it's amazing how prevalent it's become. I know I heard someone at at work one time she was talking about she had I don't know I think a daughter maybe middle school age you know 12 13 something like that.

And made the comment that there were I think six or seven kids at at her child's school who are in the process of transitioning either male or female or female to male. And that was just in one school.

I mean this stuff didn't even exist until just the last few years. And you know and in fact it says here you know but over the past decade transgenderism has been accepted en masse by the centers of power in America which are now imposing them on the whole country.

The core parts of its doctrine are easy to list. And it talks about bullet points out some of these. Physical sex and gender identity are completely unrelated to one another. Gender is fluid and there are far more genders than merely male and female.

In fact there may be infinite genders. Gender roles are socially constructed and there is no biological basis for behavioral differences between males and females. Well I mean there's so much of this is wrong.

I mean just just take this last one the gender roles are socially constructed. No they're hardwired into us. It was it was the Lord himself that created he created man male and female. Male and female he created them.

And there are men and women are not the same. They have roles that are specific to them. You know and I know that that saying that is extremely unpopular in 2021 America. I mean that's the whole feminist thing isn't it?

I mean the men and women they're pretty much they're the same. You know and if there's any difference in in the way they behave and in the things that they do in life well I mean that that's chalked up to the patriarchy which everybody knows must be smashed.

Well you know I hate to break it to the feminists but you know patriarchy is God's design for the human race. Patriarchy is a good thing. It's not a bad thing. It's not an evil. It's a good thing. It's a blessed thing and and I'm glad that we have that.

But you know these people are bound to determined if they're able to to to do away with all of that. And in there there are some other bullet points I won't read all read through all of that. But you know continues the America of 2021 the Catechism above is accepted completely by every power center in American life.

And that is true. I mean this is one of the things that's so shocking. I mean you know it gives an example here of some children's children's coloring books. And you know you you see this kind of thing all over the place.

I'm gonna cite in fact here's another example. This is a headline used to talking about the way that that the whole transgender ideology is attempting to to pull in your kids. Mr. Potato Head. Now you know Mr. Potato Head has been around for years.

In fact I think they said in this particular article that Mr. Potato Head has been around about 70 years. And I think he was even in the in Toy Story right? You know he was that was one of the characters in those those cartoons by Pixar.

Toy Story. And you know here we go. Here's a headline. This is from the BBC. But you can find this in any similar articles and in any number of publications. Mr. Potato Head to lose Mr. Title and gender-neutral rebrand.

So you know what's what's this all about? Well this is the the manufacturers is Hasbro makes the Mr. Potato Head. And let's read this here. A gender-neutral makeover will see Mr. Potato Head become the toy formerly known as Mr. Potato Head.

Well he's kind of like Prince. You know there was the artist formerly known as Prince. I guess this is the toy formerly known as Mr. Potato Head. So let's see what it has to say here. The classic toys branding is being reimagined for the modern consumer.

It's US maker Hasbro announced on Thursday. From later this year the toy launched almost 70 years ago we've been named Potato Head on packaging. Other toy companies have taken similar decisions in recent years breaking with traditional gender norms.

Hasbro is making sure all feel welcome in the Potato Head world by officially dropping the Mr. from the Mr. Potato Head brand name and logo to promote gender equality and inclusion. The rebranded toy which can be assembled with a selection of different body parts and clothes will be released in autumn this year Hasbro said.

The company said the toy will allow children to reimagine and create their own Potato Head family. So I guess you can have you know two kind of guy Potato Heads even though they're not called Mr. they're still kind of like dude Potato Heads.

And I guess maybe you could have two Mrs. Potato Heads although I guess they wouldn't be called Mrs. they just be called called called Potato Head and but they they kind of have kind of have female features so and I mean it's just the rot in our civilization is very deep and that's one of the things you get from this.

I mean there's there's a way in which you read through some of this and you do I mean I find myself in some ways a getting kind of a little bit of a laugh out of it but if you really think about it this isn't a funny thing I mean it's an incredibly dangerous thing it is a tragic and sad thing it is a sinful thing more to the point it is an evil thing that's going on here I mean this is represents massive confusion.

This is putting darkness for light and light for darkness it's calling good evil and evil good and it's being done not by obscure people but really by the the leading power centers. I think the the article here the in revolver it makes the point it says you know that transgenderism the transgender catechism is accepted completely by every power center of American life and that's true.

I mean whether you're talking about corporations whether you're talking about academia whether you're talking about entertainment the media now even a lot of churches sadly I mean those those are churches that have abandoned the the Word of God but even many organizations that hold themselves out as churches I mean they're they're not true churches of Jesus Christ who accept this type of thing.

But many churches do also teach transgenderism and then homosexuality and these things are okay and and and they're they're not okay in the eyes of God. Now I wanted to turn a little bit to some of the critics of trans mania.

Camille Paglia on Transgender Mania and Cultural Collapse

This was actually kind of my my inspiration for for the the title for this this episode there was an article several years ago that was it was this is actually dates from 2015. It's got the the title Paglia transgender mania is a symptom of the West cultural collapse.

And the article details some comments made by a person by the name of Camille Paglia. It starts off best-selling feminist author social critic and self-described transgender being. Camille Paglia said in an interview last month that the rise of transgenderism in the West is a symptom of decadence and cultural collapse now that she's right about that.

Now one of the things that's really interesting is as the the article says here you know she is a feminist and a self-described transgender being and so she's not somebody that you know that as Christians that you or I would say well we wouldn't think we'd probably have a lot that that we would agree on.

I think we probably have some very substantial disagreements and probably disagree more than we would agree. And yet some of the views that she has that she puts forward are actually pretty interesting.

She's a feminist author who you know if I was gonna sit down and read a feminist author she would be probably one of the very few that I would be willing to read again. Not because I agree with feminism not because I agree with her you know some of her other stances but she she does manage to be pretty interesting and sometimes she'll be surprised you and she'll actually say some things that that are actually quite sound and and I think you're you see what I'm talking about as we go through this article.

So these are some quotes from Camille Peglia. Nothing better defines the decadence of the West to the jihadists than our toleration of open homosexuality. And is transgender mania now Pegley said during an October 22nd interview on the Brazilian television program Roda Viva.

Pegley also said during the interview that transgender propagandists are overstating the case. I think that the transgender propagandists make wildly inflated claims about the multiplicity of gender. She said sex reassignment surgery even today with all its advances cannot in fact change anyone's sex.

Okay you can define yourself as a trans man or a trans woman is one of these new gradations along the scale. But ultimately every single cell in the human body the DNA in that cell remains coded for your biological birth.

Now let's stop there because I think that's just a fascinating point that she makes and it's right on target. Now one of the things that's interesting you know when you you talk to some of these these liberal types is is they like to at least pretend to be very committed to science.

You know and and and they like to accuse Christians of being you know sort of a bunch of luddites and science deniers and and and conspiracy theorists and whack jobs and all of this type of thing you may recall I don't know if you've ever seen this but there was a debate between Ken Ham and Bill Nye the science guy.

I think this was back in in 2014 or so. So it's about seven years ago and Bill Nye's I'm gonna just summarize his argument and he might I don't I don't think he would disagree with this. I mean basically this is what Bill Nye said.

He said if you're a Christian he didn't literally say this but if you you take all of all of his words and you kind of kind of get the meaning behind them kind of read into what he was saying kind of I guess maybe the the implied ideas behind his his overall stance was essentially this.

If you're a Christian you're stupid. And if you teach your kids to be Christians well you're guilty of making them stupid too. And that's that's Bill Nye's basic view of Christians and in Christianity and in Christian families and you know so here we go we have these these liberals again you know these people that like to say you know I love science you know and you know and you Christians are science deniers because you don't believe in Darwinism or blah blah blah well we don't believe in Darwinism but the thing that's fascinating is you got guys like you know this Rachel Levine who wants to claim that he's he's a woman but as Camille Paglia points out and what science tells us is that you know you you've got if you're a guy you've got X &Y chromosomes and if you're a female you've got 2x chromosomes in every one of your cells your DNA.

You're you're at the at the cellular level at the DNA level is coded male or female. You know that there's not you know that there aren't 50 different you know potential genders or sexes is more accurate to call it now there are two there's male and female.

God created man male and female. That's why you we have those those two those two possible arrangements either XY or XX and every cell in your body reflects this. And you know you can don a blonde wig and you know maybe mutilate yourself or you know get some kind of surgery or something to make yourself look like a woman.

You're still a guy all of your cells in your body are still coded as a male. You know a woman can can have her her breast amputated and maybe take some hormone therapy and things like this but every cell in her body is still coded as a woman.

It doesn't change that. So I mean all these people who want to say follow the science you know you hear this kind of stuff you know with respect to COVID but but you hear in a lot of areas too you know we follow the science.

You know this kind of thing and you know all these people who are at the same time want to say they follow the science when it comes to the the whole transgender thing they don't follow the science. You know that that that that kind of an argument by the way that that's called an ad hominem argument.

You know you you can kind of it's a sort of intellectual judo you know you can point out some of the contradictions in in your opponent's thinking you know and in what you can say is well if you really do love science so much why don't you accept what the what the biology says about men and women you know that that all of this stuff that you can do to your body to make yourself appear to you know to be the opposite sex is really just superficial because at that root you're still a man and you're still a woman.

You know your your cells your DNA has not changed your chromosomes have not changed. So let's continue here. This is a morph Pagli she says so there are a lot of lies being propagated at the present moment which I think is not in anyone's best interest.

Now what I'm concerned about is the popularity and availability of sex reassignment surgery so that someone who doesn't feel that he or she belongs to the biology biological birth gender people are being encouraged to intervene in the process.

Parents are now being encouraged to subject the child to procedures that I think are a form of child abuse the hormones to slow puberty actual surgical manipulations etc. I think this is wrong that people should wait until they're of an informed age of consent.

Well again Camille Pagli has a lot more sense than Rachel Levine or Levine. She has a lot more sense than he does because she she sits here and says this does child abuse. And if Camille Pagli is right and she is that that kind of thing is child abuse.

What Rachel Levine our incoming assistant secretary for health is saying is is that he wants to practice child abuse. You know and you know and he advocates for that. And apparently he probably wants to to push this idea out into society more broadly.

And Pagli continues parents should not be doing this to their children. And I think that even in the teenage years is too soon to be making this leap people change people grow and people adapt. Pagli went on to talk about her book sexual persona and how the emergence of transgenderism signifies the end of Western culture.

Now I'm concerned about this. In fact my study of history in sexual persona I I'm always talking about the late phases of culture. I was always drawn to the late or decadent phases of culture. Oscar Wilde is one of the great exponents of that in the late 19th century.

He's one of my strongest influences from my earliest years and I found in my study that that history is cyclic and everywhere in the world you find this pattern in ancient times that as a culture begins to decline you have an efflorescence of transgender phenomenon that is a symptom of cultural collapse.

So rather than people singing the praises of humanitarian liberalism that allows all these transgender possibilities to appear and to be encouraged I would be concerned about how Western culture is defining itself to the world because in fact these phenomenon phenomena are inflaming the irrational indeed borderline psychotic opponents of Western culture in the form of Isis and other jihadist etc.

Pagli has said nothing better defines the decadence of the West the jihadist than our toleration of open homosexuality in this transgender mania. Now now those are some stunning comments and that's some really good stuff.

I mean basically what she's saying here is that the that that transgenderism is really a sign of civilizational cultural collapse or you know as I think John Robbins would say it is the collapse of of the culture and specifically we're talking about here it is the collapse of the West you know and I mean and again I think when you read through this I mean again you're dealing with somebody Camille Paglia she's not a Christian she's a feminist author and she's certainly a I think she would probably call herself a liberal but I mean this is an excellent analysis of and she's absolutely right in everything that she says here.

Now what I would say though and maybe we need to ask ourselves this question is is is what's missing from the analysis because it is good as it is on the surface I think that there are some things certainly one big thing here here that is missing now you know what's missing here is is is really the reason for the collapse of the West.

It's really the the reason here and of course Gordon Clark and John Robbins both knew very well why the West was in collapse and they correctly argued that the reason Western civilization is disappearing is because Christianity on which Western civilization was built has virtually disappeared from the West.

So if Christianity disappears while the civilization built is logically also going to disappear and that's what we're seeing you and I are living through this I mean basically the West exists where we're kind of going on our reputation we're kind of going on our existing on our past past successes the past faith you know of our forefathers.

But you know that same faith does not exist today. You know there are very few Christians in the West at least as defined by the way the the the Reformation would define a Christian an evangelical you know evangelical back in the time in the in the 16th century was somebody who believed specifically in two things and that is justification by faith alone and in Scripture alone and in that almost that that's almost non-existent today even among putatively Bible believing churches.

So let's do this. You know what I thought I'd do here is do a little Clarkian analysis of of the whole transgender issue and I think it's important to bring the Bible to bear here on this. You know if you ever read you've ever read John Robbins he would talk a lot about something from Martin Luther that's called the Schriftprinzip that's a good German word.

I like to say German words. They're fun just fun to say. But the Schriftprinzip which simply means writing principle it was the idea that that all statements by all men you need to be brought back to the Bible and approved by them.

So so we know a statement of a philosopher or a writer or a poet or a politician or somebody or economist or somebody like this we can judge whether they're right or not by taking their words bring them back to Scripture and comparing them to what the Scriptures say.

You know and we ask ourselves you know does this person who's teaching or you know arguing for a particular position does this position. Can we find it in Scripture. And if if we can well we say okay that the person's ideas are approved by Scripture if it contradicts what the Bible says if it contradicts the infallible inerrant Word of God well then we know that that those ideas are wrong you know and we reject them now you know.

So what does the Bible have to say about transgenderism. Well you won't find the term transgenderism in Scripture. But I do think that the Bible certainly implies that transgenderism is sinful and you may even be able to argue that it explicitly states that in some places as well.

But I don't think there's any question that overall the teaching of the Scripture is that transgenderism like other types of say related things such as homosexuality is a sin. And it's not just any old sin.

It's not just a generic sin. It's a actually particularly egregious sin. You know the Bible calls it in multiple places an abomination. So let's take a look at a few passages and I don't mean this to be an exhaustive study here but I think we can look at a few passages here and I think we can get a pretty good idea just from these what the Bible has to say about transgenderism.

And I want to read here to you first this is a passage from Genesis chapter 1. This is verses 26 to 28. Then God said let us make man in our image according to our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea over the birds of the air and over the cattle over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.

So God created man his own image in the image of God. He created him male and female. He created them then God blessed them and God said to them be fruitful and multiply fill the earth and subdue it have dominion over the fish of the sea over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves on the earth.

So one of the things that we can get out of of this particular passage is that there are only two sexes you know or two genders. I know that they calling them genders is sort of the popular thing today but but really properly it's two sexes.

But even if we use the term gender there's only two genders. You know there's not this great multiplicity of genders. I mean even Camille Paglia has enough sense to know that you know there aren't these these infinite genders out there.