Anatomy at birth may prompt attending
physicians or nurses to check the ‘male’ or ‘female’ box on a birth certificate,
but according to The Associated Press
(AP), sex and gender isn’t always the
same thing.
As shared in my previous blog posting
[October 29 – “Here is How the Trump Administration Aims to Define
Transgender”], The New York Times (NYT) reported the Trump Administration
is considering rolling back the Obama-era expansion of Title IX – a move that essentially
redefined the word “sex” in the statute that bans sex discrimination in
education programs that receive federal funding. LGBTQA groups decried the proposed rollback,
believing it’s a violation of their civil rights.
In a follow-up report, AP asked the following question of Dr.
Jason Rafferty of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): Aren’t sex and
gender interchangeable terms? “Sex
typically refers to anatomy while gender goes beyond biology,” Rafferty told AP.
“Gender identity is more an inner sense of being male, female or
somewhere in between – regardless of physical anatomy. It may be influenced by genetics and other
factors, but it’s more about the brain than the sex organs.” According to Rafferty, transgender is a term
“accepted across science and medical groups” to mean people whose gender
identity doesn’t match what Rafferty calls their “sex assigned at birth.”
OneNewsNow spoke with Dr.
Michelle Cretella, Executive Director of the American College of Pediatricians,
who sees things differently. “The lie is
that people have sex and that they have something else called gender,” she
begins. “That’s the foundational lie –
and Dr. Rafferty is the author of the American Academy of Pediatrics’
pro-transgender policy statement that was just torn to shreds by an openly gay
psychologist who looked at the AAP’s policy statement, authored by Dr.
Rafferty, and pulled all the references.”
According to Cretella, the references that Rafferty cites for the AAP do
not support the claims that he makes. “He
claims, and the AAP claims, that every child – regardless of how young – must
be accepted for whatever gender identity they declare and that we need to go
ahead and raise them as the opposite sex, whether they are two or sixteen or
eighteen,” she continues. “That is
demonstrably false [and] that’s what the AP
story is basing their so-called science on.”
The truth, says Dr. Cretella, is that
every human being is conceived with a biological sex, which is determined by an
individual’s DNA alone. “Our identity,
our self-awareness of being male or female, is something that is learned, and
it develops over time,” she adds. “It is
not until the child is seven years old that a child’s brain is capable of
understanding that sex does not change when you change your appearance. That is the science ... the psychological science,
the neurological science ... that the transgender activists – including the
transgender activists who wear white coats and stethoscopes – are ignoring.”
As for the Trump Administration’s
possible “rolling back” of the Obama-era expansion of Title IX, it was never a
change in the law – as implied by the reaction and protests of LGBTQ activists. In 2010 the Obama Administration wrote a
letter that added “non-conforming genders” to the Title IX civil rights law
passed in 1972 … redefining the concept throughout the entire federal
bureaucracy. A memo from the Department
of Health and Human Services (HHS), referenced in the NYT article, would simply put the original, scientific definition back.
As columnist David French writes, the
proposal would be simply “applying conventional rules of statutory construction
to correct the Obama Administration overreach.”
American Family Association’s Sandy
Rios says the madness has gone far enough. “We’ve allowed that to happen because we have
not spoken back firmly and said, No – this is biology. This is the way God designed things,” she
exclaims. She contends there are signs
many Americans are ready to stand up to those who continue to peddle the “gender
identity” lie. “I think that’s one of
the biggest reasons why President Trump has taken the imagination of the
American people, because he’s willing to say the things that the American
people have been afraid to say,” she shares.
The NYT reports the HHS memo was drafted and has been circulating since
last spring.
Rev.
Dr. Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.
Chaplain
(Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army
Pastor, Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel
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