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Tuesday April 14 2026
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Mark 10:6-But from the beginning of the creation, God ‘MADE THEM MALE AND FEMALE.’
Our friends who believe in transgenderism (the attempt to change the body of a male to a female, or visa versa) sometimes teach that the Bible authorizes this. It is argued that God took a human male (Adam) and then from his body made a female (Eve).
Genesis 2:21-23-And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. 22 Then the rib which the LORD God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man. 23 And Adam said: “This is now bone of my bones And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man.”
So we are told by our transgender friends and neighbors:
Male (Adam) into female (Eve) = Transgenderism.
See, the Bible approves transgenderism!
Clever argument.
However, it falls apart with some simple reasoning.
First, the creation of Eve was not God turning a male (Adam) into a female (Eve): it was God creating an entirely different person (Eve) from a male (Adam). In truth, the male (Adam) remained completely male, and an entirely new person (Eve) was crafted from him. Eve was not a transitioned male: she was something “different” from the male (i.e., female).
So you do not have a male being transformed into a female: you have a male remaining a male, and then a female being created as a separate entity from him.
Second, maleness or femaleness are not dependent on our exterior or interior body organs. They are a result of our genetic structure, which is made at the moment of conception (Psalm 139:14-15). Any chemical/hormone treatments or surgeries that a transgender person undergoes will never be able to change the fact that they are still genetically male, or genetically female. This is why any attempts to “change” a person’s gender will ultimately and inevitably fail.
Third, the creation of Eve actually teaches us something else very important about this subject that I would like to draw your attention to. We are told that God formed Eve from the “rib” or the “side” of Adam (Genesis 2:21-22). Take a closer look at that word:
“The word “rib” translates the Hebrew word tsela. Despite the familiarity of this translation, tsela probably doesn’t actually mean “rib” here, since tsela occurs more than forty other times in the Old Testament and it never means “rib.” 8 In almost every other usage, tsela refers to the side of a sacred piece of architecture like the tabernacle or the temple. 9 And this meaning informs its usage here in Genesis 2. Adam and Eve’s bodies are compared to sacred pieces of architecture, resonating with everything we’ve seen so far about the image of God. Temples embody God’s presence, and so do bodies. Genesis 1–2 speaks about our sexed embodied nature as something significant for human identity. Our sexed bodies are like sacred pieces of architecture.” (Preston Sprinkle, Embodied: Transgender Identities, the Church, and What the Bible Has to Say, 67-68 (Kindle Edition): Colorado Springs, CO: David C Cook)
There is a sacred beauty to the human body which should be recognized and respected. Many of the transgender people that I have been blessed to work with over the years have often expressed a profound and deep-seated hatred for their body.
I am reminded here of a woman named Prisha who at a young age underwent extreme transgender surgery. What began as a hatred for her body was compounded by a terrible and tragic set of events which led Prisha down a dark path.
“Prisha really began floundering around age twelve, as she entered puberty. She was struggling intensely with her mental health and had developed a severe eating disorder. She began to feel like her life was falling apart around her. Prisha says her eating disorder was so severe that medical providers recommended she receive inpatient care. She was diagnosed with a personality disorder and a host of comorbidities, she told me—OCD, anorexia, bulimia, possible schizophrenia, major depression, and more. “I didn’t get enough attention,” she explains. “My issues weren’t noticed until I was literally trying to kill myself. That’s also how I got into the online stuff …,” she shared.1 According to medical records viewed and reported on by the Independent Women’s Forum (IWF), Prisha wouldn’t eat for entire days at a time, effectively starving herself. She described herself as being “skeletal” at that time, sharing in an interview with my friend Kelsey Bolar of the IWF: “I could stick my whole hand in my stomach between my rib cage. And my hip bones were sticking out really bad, my hair was falling out and my skin was gray.” Everyone in her life was worried about her, something Prisha was painfully cognizant of. “I made everyone sad.” She was repeatedly hospitalized for attempting to take her own life. “I just hated myself and my body,” Prisha told Kelsey. “Every part of me, I just loathed it. I didn’t think I deserved to eat. I was so depressed and so sad.”2…She didn’t really know anyone at school who was transitioning, and she doesn’t remember her teachers discussing the topic. But her peers were absolutely starting to explore LGBTQ topics. “It was ten years ago at this point,” she said. “There were a lot of gender-nonconforming people and everybody was some sort of new sexuality every week, the stranger the better, and the [Pride] flags were starting to come out and stuff. So it was starting, but it was mostly online at that point.” Then Prisha faced what was probably the most traumatic event of her young life. At fourteen years old, she told me, Prisha was raped by an adult. And that rape caused her to become pregnant. Prisha’s body couldn’t sustain the pregnancy. She was grappling intensely with a crippling eating disorder. The young girl, still reeling from her assault and the knowledge that she was pregnant, found herself miscarrying her infant child. The miscarriage of her baby was graphic, Prisha told me. She was not only taken unawares—she was distraught. “I lost the baby because I couldn’t eat,” she would say. “I had failed as a woman, my body a graveyard.…”3…Prisha’s rape significantly impacted her young mind and her views of womanhood and sex. It would not factor much in the conversations she would have with the gender therapists who pushed her down the road to surgery, but Prisha believes that the rape heavily affected her desire to transition. “I was so young and ignorant that I thought [rape] only happened to girls,” she explained to me. “I wouldn’t talk about it.… I feel like [the therapists] should have seen that as a red flag too, but they didn’t.” 4 “I didn’t want anyone to ever be able to go inside [me] ever again,” she told Kelsey. “So I thought atrophy sounded like a good thing as far as I could even understand it.” 5 Prisha is twenty-four years old now. She is very frank about sharing her current struggles to find medical professionals who will help her deal with the medical complications of her transition. She has a boyfriend, detransitioner friends who push her to speak out about her experiences, and empathetic media allies like Kelsey to help share her story. But there was a time when she thought that transitioning was the only solution to her problems. At age seventeen, she began testosterone injections. And at age eighteen, she went under the knife to remove her breasts. Forever. On July 17, 2023, Prisha filed a lawsuit against providers and institutions that treated her during her transition. Her legal complaint is available online in its entirety. 6”. (Mary Margaret Oloham, Detrans: True Stories of Escaping the Gender Ideology Cult, 22-25 (Kindle Edition): New York, NY: Regnery)
The Bible does not encourage transgender procedures and surgeries, and argues against such.
At the same time, this all reminds us that transgender individuals should be treated with compassion by Christians (2 Timothy 2:24-26). We do not know the mental struggles, or traumatic background, or ungodly counseling and influence, that a person may have experienced in their own unique situation or context.
Lord, give us a heart like Yours. Help us to seek truth, and to embrace it, and to share it lovingly with those around us. We pray for those who struggle with issues such as transgenderism and sexual confusion. Draw near to all of us. We thank You and we praise You. Amen.