Transphobia

I am writing this in support  of David Robertson, the Wee Flea.
   'The trouble is that the way that the question is so often framed is wrong.  It is always set up as if you are against Queer theory (the view that gender is a social construct and can be changed at will) then you must hate trans people.  I don’t.  And I would plead with anyone who reads this – not to hate anyone – and especially trans people.  They too are people made in the image of God who need to see, know and experience the love of God.  But it’s precisely because of that love that we need to speak out.  We must refuse to be bullied and intimidated by those who hate in the name of love.  And we must never stoop to hatred, or give into fear.' - says Robertson.
   I have previously blogged exactly the same dilemma when one speaks out against homosexuality or Islam. In both cases you are assumed to be against people who are same sex attracted or Muslims and this assumption is not true to the reality of my objections. People are made in the image of God and to be respected whatever their views, we all have diverse views, or their sins, and we are all sinners.
   But in both cases one touches on something that is at the heart of the people concerned and of the gender dysphoric too. What they fight for is at the centre of their lives and so they fight for their viewpoint with passion.
   In the case of these sexual matters though I will argue that those who're genuinely gender dysphoric or those exclusively same sex attracted are a small minority among the voices opposed to Robertson, me and those of us taking the traditional Biblical Christian stance. Far in the majority are those who want the freedom for themselves or others to engage in homosexual acts or cross dressing. Many years ago Francis Schaeffer pointed out that much advocacy of homosexuality was theological and political. It was deliberately in revolt against God's word and his institution of marriage and family. People engaged in the sex acts of their choice because they could. Similarly with gender dysphoria. Those one has met with are few and unhappy. I met some as a pharmacist and a couple pastorally. Those who want to designate their own gender, the modern fad, I have not met personally and frankly, I marvel at the idiocy. Biology is destiny. Sex is determined and in the vast majority of cases clear. I have never come across a hermaphrodite and only know of one case second hand. No.If you have the chromosomes, that is what you are. End of debate. God has determined your sex. Do not mess with your gender.
  So I am pleased to stand with The Wee Flea, sanity and Biblical Christianity.