Gender Variance

Welcome to Every Thought Captive. I’m Phil Steiger, pastor at Quail Lake Community Church.

Recently in a school in Florida, a child was enrolled in kindergarten as a girl when he is actually and genetically a boy. In a school in California teachers are no longer lining elementary children up as boys and girls. These stories illustrate a trend among educators of young children sometimes called “gender variance.” According to this view, gender is constructed by a child, not given to a child before birth.

This represents a dramatic shift in worldview. According to a Christian understanding of humanity, our personhood—including our gender—is a given and is something we grow to know and understand through life. According to gender variance, a postmodern view, our personhood is fluid and can be constructed any way we please. This second view results from the rampant individualism and moral relativism in our culture and only enslaves and confuses us. We should understand, however, that being made in the image of God frees us to be who we were made to be.

This has been Every Thought Captive, a Christian worldview minute sponsored by Quail Lake Community Church. For more information, please visit quaillake.org.