Gender Identity Madness as Law: Male and Female He Created Them - Unless You Live in California

To the accolades of the leaders of a Cultural Revolution - and the shock and despair of most parents - Governor Jerry Brown signed California Assembly Bill 1266 into law. It mandates that restrooms in public schools, from kindergarten through the twelfth grade, no longer be limited to boys or girls, young men or young women. Students who self identify as transgendered will now be able to choose which restroom they use. This legislation is a part of a movement to discard the truth that gender is a given, a gift.

P>LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - To the accolades of the leaders of a Cultural Revolution and the shock and despair of most parents, Governor Jerry Brown signed California Assembly Bill 1266 into law. It mandates that restrooms in public schools, from kindergarten through the twelfth grade, no longer be limited to boys or girls, young men or young women. Students who self identify as transgendered will now be able to choose which restroom they use.

It also requires athletic teams in public schools to allow the student, based upon their self proclaimed gender identity, to choose the team they play on. In other words, a girl who says she is a boy must be allowed to join the football team. A boy who says he is a girl must now be able to choose to be on a girls' sports team. School systems which fail to comply will face the consequences. 

This legislation is a part of a movement to discard the truth that gender is a given, a gift. The  supporters of this movement claim we have the ability to choose our own gender, or to change our mind after allegedly having made such a choice, as was on display just recently when an ABC News producer and Editor who had decided that he was a woman decided that he wanted to be a man again.  The words of the creation account recorded in the first Book of the bible, the Book of Genesis, "God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them" (Gen 1:27) have been comletely rejected in California.

The proponents of this alleged ability to change the nature of reality claim that changing gender is another one of those multiplying newfound rights in a society losing its mind, its common sense, and its true freedom. Following their revolutionary agenda, they have used verbal engineering to prepare the way for social and legal engineering, all intended to foist their ideology on us all. The example of what just happened in California exposes the insanity of it all. It does more; it shows the dangers of this social experiment. The proponents of this new world want to compel us to succumb to their brave new world or face the police power of the State. Even to raise a question as to the prudence of such a social experiment results in one being verbally pilloried.

In an address to the Roman Curia on Thursday, December 21, 2012, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI exposed the falsity of what is called gender theory in the circles of the cultural revolutionaries. Here is an excerpt: "The Chief Rabbi of France, Gilles Bernheim, has shown in a very detailed and profoundly moving study that the attack we are currently experiencing on the true structure of the family, made up of father, mother, and child, goes much deeper. While up to now we regarded a false understanding of the nature of human freedom as one cause of the crisis of the family, it is now becoming clear that the very notion of being - of what being human really means - is being called into question."

"He quotes the famous saying of Simone de Beauvoir: "one is not born a woman, one becomes so" (on ne naît pas femme, on le devient). These words lay the foundation for what is put forward today under the term "gender" as a new philosophy of sexuality. According to this philosophy, sex is no longer a given element of nature, that man has to accept and personally make sense of: it is a social role that we choose for ourselves, while in the past it was chosen for us by society."

"The profound falsehood of this theory and of the anthropological revolution contained within it is obvious. People dispute the idea that they have a nature, given by their bodily identity, which serves as a defining element of the human being. They deny their nature and decide that it is not something previously given to them, but that they make it for themselves. According to the biblical creation account, being created by God as male and female pertains to the essence of the human creature. This duality is an essential aspect of what being human is all about, as ordained by God."

"This very duality as something previously given is what is now disputed. The words of the creation account: "male and female he created them" (Gen 1:27) no longer apply. No, what applies now is this: it was not God who created them male and female - hitherto society did this, now we decide for ourselves. Man and woman as created realities, as the nature of the human being, no longer exist. Man calls his nature into question. From now on he is merely spirit and will."

"The manipulation of nature, which we deplore today where our environment is concerned, now becomes man's fundamental choice where he himself is concerned. From now on there is only the abstract human being, who chooses for himself what his nature is to be. Man and woman in their created state as complementary versions of what it means to be human are disputed. But if there is no pre-ordained duality of man and woman in creation, then neither is the family any longer a reality established by creation. Likewise, the child has lost the place he had occupied hitherto and the dignity pertaining to him."

"Bernheim shows that now, perforce, from being a subject of rights, the child has become an object to which people have a right and which they have a right to obtain. When the freedom to be creative becomes the freedom to create oneself, then necessarily the Maker himself is denied and ultimately man too is stripped of his dignity as a creature of God, as the image of God at the core of his being. The defense of the family is about man himself. And it becomes clear that when God is denied, human dignity also disappears. Whoever defends God is defending man."

We live in an which is age which is rushing into darkness while it professes to be enlightened. Benedict was absolutely correct. His insights provide needed clarity in a cloud of confusion. In a world which recognizes no givens we lose one of the first gifts, the gift of our identity as male or female. In a promethean act of rebellion against not only God but the very Natural order, we are now losing our national sanity. As a result we are impoverished and not liberated. We are told we must accommodate the mistaken notion that people can choose their own gender identity or we are intolerant. Now, in California, children can now "choose" their gender identity.

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It gets worse; if they are too young to do so, then parents can do this for them.The Washington Post recently featured an article about parents who made such a choice for their little girl, allowing her to act like a little boy.  We are supposed to see them as compassionate rather than deluded. Transgender activism seeks to restructure the social order to reflect the false idea that gender is malleable. A Reuters News story on March 23, 2011 entitled "Transgender New Yorkers sue over birth certificates" showed how these activists are now using the Courts to enforce their cultural agenda:

"A group of transgender residents filed a lawsuit against New York City over what they say are burdensome requirements for them to change the gender on their birth certificates. The city's birth certificate requirements amount to discrimination for transgender residents, said Noah Lewis, an attorney representing the residents in the case. New York's Health Department requires residents to show proof of surgical procedures in order to change the gender status on a birth certificate.

"But the lawsuit, filed by the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund in state Supreme Court on behalf of three residents, said many transgender people cannot afford the surgical procedures. Instead, a note from a doctor verifying someone's transgender status should be sufficient, it said. The requirements mean many transgender people cannot get up-to-date or usable identification, Lewis said."This subjects them to harassment and discrimination. They can be laughed at or turned away doing everyday transactions like going to the DMV (the Department of Motor Vehicles) or applying for jobs," he said.

"One of those suing the city, Joan Prinzivalli, said she would like to get the surgery the city requires to prove she is female but she is unable to for health reasons. "This policy is unfair to me and to other transgender people who just want IDs that match who we are," she said. City attorney Gabriel Taussig said the Health Department would review the group's concerns. "We are very sympathetic to the petitioners' concerns and recognize that this is a complex issue," he said.

"The Health Department must be satisfied that an applicant has completely and permanently transitioned to the acquired gender prior to the issuance of a birth certificate." Birth certificates for transgendered people in New York were an issue earlier this month when the city made an apology to a transgendered couple asked to show birth certificates when getting married because the clerk claimed they did not appear to match the people in their photo IDs. They threatened to sue because state laws do not require couples to show birth certificates when getting married."

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A March, 2011 article in Mercatornet featured an article written by Babette Francis, the National and Overseas Coordinator of Endeavour Forum Inc., a pro-life, pro-family NGO which has special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the UN. The article, entitled "Gender bending: let me count the ways" revealed that gender identity activists have succeeded in pushing the Australian Human Rights Commission to recognize 23 alleged genders:

"In the beginning there was male and female. Soon there was homosexuality. Later there were lesbians, and much later gays, bisexuals, transgenders and queers. But anyone who thinks LGBTQ  is the full count of contemporary sexualities is sadly out of date. For example, the transgendered have for some time been divided into those who are awaiting treatment, those have had hormone treatment, those who have had hormones and surgery, and those who have had hormones and surgery but are not happy and want it all reversed. "

These articles reflect where this is headed unless we expose it, oppose it, and propose a return to the truth. The operative word in all of this is the word gender. The cultural revolutionaries are intent on redefining the word by using the positive law as some kind of new alchemy. The Law cannot give people power to do what is impossible. However, once they have such positive laws, as in California, they will use the Police Power of the State, to insist that people be guaranteed a right to choose their gender - and change their mind about that gender at whim.

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In her article, Babette Francis mentioned a popular book in the gender identity movement, "Trans People in Love", co-edited by Katrina Fox, an Australian activist, who "wrote an emotive piece for the Australian Broadcasting Commission recently entitled "Marriage needs redefining" which shows the trajectory intended by these activists. In it Fox insisted that all the "gender boundaries" surrounding marriage must be removed. "A more inclusive option," she insisted, "is to allow individuals to get married whatever their sex or gender, including those who identify as having no sex or gender or whose sex may be indeterminate."

We also face an increase in what are wrongly referred to as Sex Change or Gender Reassignment surgeries. Though those who suffer from Gender Identity Disorder (GID) deserve empathy and compassion, the objective, scientific facts remain; no such surgery can accomplish a change of gender or sexual identity. In effect, they mutilate the body and destroy the bodily integrity of the person. Every single human cell contains chromosomes which identify whether we are male or female. That cannot be changed. It is a given. In fact, it is a gift.

In a culture where freedom has been redefined as a right to choose anything - and liberty has degenerated into license - the newspeak of the age has declared the instrumental use of the body of another to be sexual freedom. Sadly, the same spirit of the age fails to recognize the integral unity of the human person, body, soul and spirit, and has turned the human body into a machine with parts which the revolutionaries think can simply be interchanged. 

Removal or reconstruction of genitals and attachment of artificially constructed ones which are absolutely incapable of ovulation or conception, in the case of a transsexual male who tries to be a woman, or the generation of sperm, in the case of a transsexual woman trying to be a man, does not change the structure of reality. The removal constitutes mutilation. The construction of artificial organs with no reproductive function does not alter the gender or sex of the person. Medical science confirms that our identity as male or female affects even our brains. In addition, even the physical appearance must be sustained by massive doses of synthetic hormones. These are dangerous chemicals, inflicting serious harm on many fronts.

In 2002 the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith of the Catholic Church issued a letter which was sent without public release to every Catholic Bishop. It clearly stated that such surgical procedures do not alter a person's gender and that in no circumstance are baptismal records of such individuals who have undergone them to be altered. Further, the document made clear that no one who has undergone such a surgery is eligible to marry, be ordained to the priesthood or enter the religious life.

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At the time the letter was received from Rome, Bishop Wilton D. Gregory of Belleville, Ill., was the President of the U.S. Bishops' conference. He sent a letter to all US Bishops in which he wrote "The altered condition of a member of the faithful under civil law does not change one's canonical condition, which is male or female as determined at the moment of birth."

The Gender Identity Movement insists upon the recognition in the positive law of a newfound right to choose one's own gender. They further insist upon laws which accommodate, fund, and enforce this newfound right. Those involved in the activist wing of the movement want to compel the rest of society to recognize their vision of a brave new world or face the Police Power of the State. They have shown their hand in California.

Pope Emeritus Benedict was absolutely correct, "the profound falsehood of this theory and of the anthropological revolution contained within it is obvious." Gender is a gift. The dangers of the Gender Identity Movement are becoming increasingly clear. The California legislature and this complicit  Governor have acted in a manner which does not serve the common good. The dangers of such legislation will soon become clear, and parents will have to deal with the implications of a cultural revolution which sees their children as pawns in a social experiment.

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