For the last several years, the President of the United States has made proclamations observing the “Transgender Day of Visibility” on March 31. This has largely gone unnoticed by many until this year when it fell on Easter. Given that Easter is a long-standing tradition for believers in Christ to recognize the miracle the Resurrection, this caused many to criticize the White House’s decision as insensitive.
However, Christians are not really concerned about what holiday this “Day of Visibility” falls on. What we are concerned with is the lie of progressive Gender Ideology. In the White House’s proclamation, the President writes, “Today, we send a message to all transgender Americans: You are loved. You are heard. You are understood…” None of this is true. Is it loving to affirm someone’s confusion about the body they were born in? Are we really hearing the cries for help from those suffering from the pain of gender dysphoria by offering experimental drugs and surgeries to children? Can a man, even as powerful as the President, understand who another person really is in spite of their biological characteristics?
There is only One who knows who we are deep inside. He is the God who made us in His image. Throughout the Bible we are told of the personal involvement God has in the making of each individual boy and girl.
God takes a personal role in our physical development. In Psalm 139, David famously spoke of how by the God of heaven we are fearfully and wonderfully made (v. 14). He says, “For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb” (v. 13). Each human life is an amazing miracle that the Lord intricately wove together, and every part of your body was designed by Him to be there.
God also takes a personal role in knowing who we are. People can be very difficult to understand. We spend much of our lives trying to figure ourselves out, let alone others. But, nothing about us is hidden from God. Psalm 139 says, “You have searched me and known me…” (v. 1), “…You understand my thoughts afar off” (v. 2), “You…are acquainted with all my ways” (v. 3). If God knows us so well, then how could we possibly believe someone could be born in the wrong body? Is God such an amateur that He would make such an obvious mistake? David says, “My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth” (v. 15) God is the master Creator and made you exactly as He intended.
If we want to hold a day of visibility, then let’s love, hear, and understand others as God sees them. We are not spiritual accidents. We are the miraculous creations of God.