Sin and fallenness warps everything in this world, including our biology, including, sadly, the bodies of some, a tiny minority, babies, and those babies are born with both male and female genitalia, the condition is often called intersex, a better term is disorder of sexual development, if you'd like to read more about that, there's an ethicist at Midwestern Seminary where I formerly taught named Alan Branch, if you want a resource on this, I get asked about this at conferences, and understandably so, because the left will take the intersex condition, and they will say, see, there is such a thing as a third gender, or something like this, it's this group of people who are born with both anatomy of the man and the woman, and that blows all your categories, Christian, and what we say, and Alan Branch has said in his helpful work, Alan Branch is his name, he's got a few books out on intersex, or he has termed it better, disorder of sexual development, DSD, when that occurs, you go to the genetic level, and you look at those genes, and you look at chromosomes, and if it's XX and XY, then you know, you know what that child really is, and you then do shape the body to fit that chromosomal reality, that is, that is a hard situation to be sure, and we don't take that lightly, but even there, hear this, even there, at the genetic level, there is clarity, you understand, the left doesn't tell you that, but there is clarity at the genetic level, praise God, and you raise that child according to the genes, something has tragically gone wrong, and that's going to be a hard condition, it often is, and that's where, listen, we are a people of truth, we are absolutely a people of compassion, and we want to help babies and children born with that kind of condition, again, through no choosing of their own, but that is not, you understand the point, that is not a third gender or something like that, that is a warping of the body, that's a malfunctioning of the design of God, God has made men, and God has made women, that's all there is, today there are lots of people who are very confused, today there are lots of people in broken homes, today there are lots of people rebelling against the design of God, and they are telling us there are not two sexes, but we confess that there are two sexes made by God, that's it, that's all there is, and so we know what a woman is, and we honor and celebrate that reality.
