These are the things you are to do: Speak the truth to each other, and render true and sound judgment in your courts; (Zechariah 8:16)

Truth, in these progressive times, is taking a beating. Aldous Huxley, author of the famous dystopian novel, “Brave New World” once said, “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”

Gender issues have many in society ignoring the facts at great peril. Like most movements, it is a peculiar blend of facts and imagination rooted more in emotion than logic.

The gender battle began with the noble cause of giving both men and women a vote. Then, it sought equal pay for equal work. Staying within the lane of recognizing biological realities (two sexes, men and women, are necessary for procreation [Genesis 1:28]), the social changes were justified logically. Early feminists abhorred abortion. Bearing children was exclusive and privileged to a female. No one was challenging biology.

Then came the gay rights movement. Homosexuality has been around as long as gossip, hatred, selfishness, and greed. What made it distinctive was that it directly challenged biology. Same-sex relationships defied the procreative design of human beings. Two males or two females, while undoubtedly able to love and care for each other in an emotional sense, could not do what males and females were designed to do – to procreate. Therefore, it was consistently condemned in Scripture (Leviticus 18:22; 1 Corinthians 6:9).

Defying logic and biological realities, the gay rights movement morphed into the trans movement, which has morphed into unprecedented efforts to ignore biology in favor of desire and emotion.

Challenging biological realities comes with consequences. First, there are obvious consequences of procreation not happening. Unless science can successfully and fully create, sustain, and deliver a child artificially, negative population growth will continue in developed countries.

Second, males and females are indeed and substantively different, no matter what you may think, feel, or surgically alter. This fact was revealed recently when the World Health Organization urged governments to consider gender when developing their alcohol policies. Why? It is a biological fact that women face more significant health risks than men at lower levels of drinking. This is a reality whether a woman thinks she is a man or wants surgery to change her biological reality.

At some point, we must face the facts. Men and women are not interchangeable. It’s the truth!